Thanks Bill! Your photos were very helpful. Arvin
On 4/8/13 10:18 AM, "William Zucca" <[email protected]> wrote: >Dear Arvin: > >I have a Columbia-Kolster 940 and have taken pictures of it for you. Are >pictures allowed on this list? I don't think so. So if you send me your >personal e-mail address, I will attach the pictures. > >Regards, >Green Mountain Bill > > >On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Arvin Casas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I recently picked up a Columbia-Kolster 950, a "Radio - Phonograph >> Combination" piece embedded inside a secretary (i.e., a desk - not a >> human!). It seems to have been bouncing about for some time in my >>region >> (New England) before I rescued it from an oddly forgetful seller's >> disgruntled girlfriend (a very unnecessarily long story). >> >> The desk as furniture is rather nice - it's a traditional secretary >>with a >> built in hutch above. The secret of this secretary is the main drawer >> which actually holds the phonograph. From what I can gather the >> industrial looking GE motor is intact, as well as all the wires - >> involving the motor and the electric pickup (with its volume knob in >> place). I only brought it home Saturday evening and have yet to truly >>get >> inside things. >> >> Sadly the phonograph is all that remains of this unit. All during the >> courtship process of buying, the seller insisted that "everything was >> intact" including the amplifier and speaker, yet admitted that "I don't >> know anything about these things." As you would predict with such kinds >> of hyperbolic, bi-polar sales pitches, this was not the case. I noticed >> quite loudly upon inspecting the piece in the freezer-cold room of the >> storage facility, that these two key components were nowhere to be >>found. >> The disgruntled girlfriend, who had been roused from sleep to meet us >> after the appointment had been forgotten by the seller, was happy to let >> us cart it away for a fair, adjusted sum. >> >> If I can get the phonograph working again on its own, I may try >>connecting >> the pickup wires to an amplifier. Ideally, but perhaps with less >> probability of success, I would love to restore this to something close >>to >> the original (if not the original itself). Does anyone here know what >> once lived north of the phonograph in these late 1920's hybrids ? All I >> have is an empty cupboard, so to speak, so I don't even have a visual >> reference of what was once there. Is it possible to approximate the >> original via Kolster radio components of the same specifications? If >>so, >> what might those specs be? >> >> Even if it sits idle as a desk I'm happy to have it. I feel like it's a >> nice "bridge" piece to have in my Columbia collection, between the >>worlds >> of mechanical and electric. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Arvin >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> http://phono-l.org >> > > > >-- >From The Hubbard House >On the park in Rochester, Vermont >where it's always 1929. >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >http://phono-l.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
