In a message dated 12/30/2004 9:40:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
you'd be amazed how the darndest old bit of automobile will be re-created from a few pieces into a complete car once again He is right. If a car that is desirable to collectors, (a 426 Hemi-powered Mopar, for instance), has the VIN tag intact, it can, and probably will be rebuilt, from the pavement up, if necessary. Car Squirrels are a whole other species. I've seen people debate the importance of using original-vendor, or period-correct nuts and bolts when cars undergoing restoration are reassembled. But I digress. Several of our most respected and beloved experts, who are almost never wrong, have weighed in on the existence of the Multiplex Graphophone. The consensus seems to be that only a few of the machines were made, maybe only one. I would still love to know what happened to the device. I would consider it an outrageous, but historically important device that was way ahead of its time. During the very early days of stereo, a small record company named Cook Records, sold discs with two sets of grooves. A company, whose name I cannot remember, (Fairchild?), made a two-headed tone arm to play them. That Emory Cook's Goldbergian, multi-channel contraptions were anticipated by more than half a century is an important fact in the history of recorded sound. Randy
