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?
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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
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