My large Viva-tonal (cabinet larger than Orthophonic "Credenza," partially because doors slide into sides of cabinet)has green velveteen on the turntable. After the local repairman sealed the horn & rebuilt the soundbox it sounds splendid even on late 1930s recordings such as Beecham conducting Mozart's "Symphony in E-flat" with the London Philharmonic. My only regret is that it lacks the marvelous non-set automatic stop that would cut off at the end of any record. A surprising lack in this next to top of the line model. Might this have been because it would introduce air leaks?
-----Original Message----- From: phono-l-boun...@oldcrank.org [mailto:phono-l-boun...@oldcrank.org] On Behalf Of Arvin Casas Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:03 PM To: Antique Phonograph List Subject: Re: [Phono-L] 1927/ Viva Tonal Columbia Felt Colors Thanks for the helpful info everyone! (Apologies for the late reply but I only subscribe to the digest.) I contacted the youtube poster of the videos that DanKj linked to and posted on the phonoland board where I'm also a member. Based on the responses from all three sources, it's Green-land for me! :) I found one tiny oil stained mini-bumper in the cabinet late last night, once green, so that confirms everyone's input. I ordered a Victor sized green felt replacement from Walt @ Gettysburg and will trim it down to size. I have leftovers from a botched turntable job on a Grafonola I restored a few months ago which I'll use for bumpers. Ron - Interesting about the velvet. Apparently they used felt early on, as in my case, but by the 700 & 800 series Columbia had models with velvet (I learned this via phonoland.) Does the velvet help make the records sound smoother? (Just kidding, though perhaps there's an audiophile who might ardently argue that.) Thanks again all. On 1/7/13 9:52 PM, "Ron L'Herault" <lhera...@bu.edu> wrote: >My Vivatonals both have what looks like green velvet on the turntables. >Bumpers look like green felt. > >Ron L On 1/8/13 2:51 AM, "DanKj" <ediso...@verizon.net> wrote: > There's a 602 on YooToob, TT & felt visible: >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL4n1HyTfq4 _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
