Phono-L's new home page is up at http://phono-l.oldcrank.org . It gives you quick access to the archives, Phono-L store, chat room, and RSS feed. I'm also working on a classified ad section and a resource links page.
Please check it out and let me know what you think! Regards, Loran From keeper...@aol.com Sat Dec 30 20:01:57 2006 From: keeper...@aol.com (keeper...@aol.com) Date: Sat Dec 30 20:02:20 2006 Subject: [Phono-L] How I get started Message-ID: <c62.9872363.32c89...@aol.com> In a message dated 12/28/2006 7:18:18 AM Pacific Standard Time, larsont...@charter.net writes: I remember reading in the public library & stumbling upon some photographs of external horned phonographs and being memorized by their appearance & dreamed of acquiring one some day. At the age of 10, my great aunt died leaving us with her Brunswick floor model. It was the same phonograph my father listened to growing up on the farm during the 20's & 30's. Such a sweet story, Randy! Thanks for sharing it! : ) Edward From john9...@pacbell.net Sat Dec 30 21:00:01 2006 From: john9...@pacbell.net (john robles) Date: Sat Dec 30 21:00:28 2006 Subject: [Phono-L] How I get started In-Reply-To: <c62.9872363.32c89...@aol.com> Message-ID: <168067.84809...@web83013.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Ok, time to share my story... I was about 7 or 8 years old when I discovered an old Grafonola Grafonola 'Favorite' in my grandmothers storage room. It had belonged to my aunt; my grandparents bought it for her because they were too strict to let her go to parties. This was the side of the family from Mexico, so all the records were in Spanish. My dad said that a man used to come up from LA every once in a while selling records to the Mexican community. There was quite a selection of them. I never forgot that machine as I grew up, and when I was in high school a friend of mine showed me an Edison Standard model A and some records that he had been given for cleaning out a garage. I was totally mesmerized by it, and I asked if he would part with it. He said I could have it for fifty dollars, which was exorbitant to me at the time. Another friend told him he should give it to me as he had gotten it for free, but nothing doing. Later on, when I was 23 and living in San Francisco, I made friends with a guy named David Chess, who collected phonographs since he was 11, and he had a Fireside model A and a Victor III at his apartment. He had his other phonos back home in Ohio. He started giving me written material about phonographs, and his back issues of the CAPS newsletter. They fascinated me, and one day I saw a Victrola VI in a shop window and convinved the owner to trade it to me for a violin which I had purchased for $20. That night my friend came over and brought a needle and some records, but as it happened, the thumbscrew was missing, a spring was broken and one of the reproducer leaf springs was broken. He told me to send it to Karl Frick for repair, which I did. FInally I was able to play it, and was hooked on phonographs from then on. He gave me much material and records over the years, some of which I still have and treasure as he died about twelve years ago at the young age of 36. He really gave me my start and taught me a lot as I grew in the hobby. I went to the second or third CAPS show and have gone every year but one since then. I bought my first cylinder machine from Pat Jones at the first CAPS show I went to..an Edison Model A standard for $238. I still have the first 5 or 6 cylidners I ever owned. My life has been very enriched by the hobby and especially the people I have met on the journey. John Robles keeper...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 12/28/2006 7:18:18 AM Pacific Standard Time, larsont...@charter.net writes: I remember reading in the public library & stumbling upon some photographs of external horned phonographs and being memorized by their appearance & dreamed of acquiring one some day. At the age of 10, my great aunt died leaving us with her Brunswick floor model. It was the same phonograph my father listened to growing up on the farm during the 20's & 30's. Such a sweet story, Randy! Thanks for sharing it! : ) Edward _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
