Hi Wayne, It was nice chatting with all of you Saturday night. Merle and I were chatting earlier in the day and she reminded me of the Sat. night chat. I would be interested in your Silvertone catalog and information. Here is my name and mailing address; Joan Lehman 1970 Temple School Road Dover, PA 17315-2350 I will send you something from our collection as a thank you. Joan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In a message dated 07/14/2007 12:06:13 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Hello Folks, It's been a year since my last little project. Last year I scanned a 1920s era Artophone Phonograph Parts catalog to CD. Approx 30 fellow phonograph collectors received a copy of the CD, pictures of the bldg that housed the supplier (courtesy of Ron L'Herault), and a few other paper items related to the catalog. Several collectors told me that the CD was very nice. This year I am planning to scan a Sears Silvertone Phonograph catalog to file. I have a few additional paper advs for the Silvertone phonographs that I will also scan. The project should end up similar in quality to the Artophone project. I am hoping to complete the project in 2-4 weeks. If anyone is interested in receiving a copy of the CD please drop me a line with your name and mailing address. I will acknowledge your email within 24 hours. If you do not hear from me . . . drop me another email. PLEASE RESPOND OFF LIST. I will send a CD to the first 24 or so people that respond. The CDs do not cost much to make . . . and I have told another collector that I would do this for him. He suggested that other collectors may appreciate the information. The cost for the CD is the usual . . . I will make a copy for each person that responds until my budjet is gone. I will even pay for the mailing cost to collectors in the US. If you are international . . . I may pay the cost of mailing provided it is not too much. I've made projects available to phono collectors several times in the past. I am sometimes slow in completing them but believe most of you have been satisfied with the end projects. Hope you have all had a wonderful summer. <:)> Wayne H ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour From [email protected] Mon Jul 16 11:12:08 2007 From: [email protected] (Andrew Baron) Date: Mon Jul 16 11:13:48 2007 Subject: [Phono-L] Reproduction grills for Edison machines Message-ID: <[email protected]> Hi all ~ I just wanted to report on a very positive experience that I had with my first order from Brian Krapes. Brian reproduces grills for Edison Amberola 1, and various other machines, and has patterns for a number of Diamond Disc phonograph grills. He also makes diaphragms for Amberola and DD machines. The quality of work on the grill he made for me was exceptional and the cost was reasonable. I was most taken with the perfect edges on the mahogany-veneered fretwork, with not a trace of tearing or splintering, and nice smooth surfaces where the saw blade engaged the wood. For this particular early A-250 grill reproduction, I requested and paid a slight additional charge for a slightly over- thick fretwork panel to match the over-thick panel on my newer A-250. An additional advantage of this was that I got to have the mahogany veneer on both faces of the panel. (In my recent research of the A-250, I've learned that Edison seemed to have progressively increased the thickness of the panel, from 1/4" to 5/16" to 3/8", from 1912 to late 1914 -- Brian attests to the fact that the slight added thickness is a noticeable plus in the free stability of the panel). The surrounding frame was also reproduced to a high level of quality, with the correct details as per my original. The total cost for this grill was $140.00, and given that the original was missing on an otherwise solid machine, I felt that it was a very sound investment. Although Brian has patterns for a number of machines, there were originally slight variations from one machine to another, even in the same model, so to be certain of capturing ALL the details of my original, I mailed him an actual tracing of the fretwork panel that I made with a fine pencil point against the edges of an original from my other machine, and also included a detailed cross-sectional drawing of the frame surround. It was an interesting process to make this accurate tracing of the grill, and brought to my attention the fact that the factory band-saw work 93 years ago was not perfectly accurate and not perfectly symmetrical. I never noticed this when looking at my original grill, but little variations became apparent during the faithful tracing of it. This is due to the hand-made nature of that part of the process. I can attest that Brian's accuracy is equal to or slightly better than the original. He is also a pleasure to work with and is receptive to any communication or concern. The grill arrived in good shape and basically ready for stain, and required no additional prep work, unless to -slightly- cut the edges of the fretwork pattern to make them marginally less sharp. For those interested in contacting Brian, he can be reached at: [email protected] Life has been extra full lately, but I'm still gradually getting my A-250 questionnaire summary ready to post to this forum. Best to all, Andy Baron From [email protected] Mon Jul 16 11:23:53 2007 From: [email protected] (George) Date: Mon Jul 16 11:25:26 2007 Subject: [Phono-L] Actionable Offences References: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <2d7601c7c7d6$77930100$d311a...@valuedcb7d4c82> Hi Rene Thank you for your help with the problem with the CAPS CD. Jeff contacted me shortly after our last email and today a replacement arrived which works fine. I did email Jeff as well. Thank you again, George ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 7:29 PM Subject: [Phono-L] Actionable Offences For those who may not have seen it, today's New York Times has a major feature on the front page of the Arts & Leisure section, all about the new release from Archeophone Records: "Actionable Offenses." It didn't take long for the publicity to have an impact: this compilation of 1890s brown wax recordings of obscene songs and limericks is now ranked #1 in comedy recordings on Amazon, and #44 in CDs of every category. It's way ahead of some of the biggest names in the recording industry. It goes to show that no matter what the era, sex sells. But this is potentially a FANTASTIC plus for our hobby. Just think of all the people out there who know nothing about early recordings, who are going to discover cylinder phonographs by way of this amazing CD. I'd wager that many buyers will be intrigued enough to check out some of Archeophone's other compilations and some may eventually find their way over to original records and phonographs. Best regards, Rene Rondeau ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.14/885 - Release Date: 7/3/2007 10:02 AM
