Wishing, and hoping ,one day to care for a nice example of a Amberola V. To me
they are classy. So I put it out to the universe. Someone may be downsizing
their collection? Don"t mind paying a premium price for a choice piece. By
the way, a friend of mine lost perhaps 50% of his collection,
I have an odd tonearm and reproducer from a "Cliftophone" does anyone know
anything about this brand? It would make a great frankenphone, because the arm
and reproducer are unusual. The reproducer attaches horizontally to the tonearm
(like a hockey puck) and the needle bar is mounted on the s
I have found sources for discographies of American Pathe records, but does
anyone know of one for French Pathes? I am still trying to discover information
on my French Pathe can-can picture record.
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Phono-
The REALLY eerie thing about this discovery was that a Vernon Dalhart record
entitled - "The Wreck of the A J Goddard" was found along with the Len Spencer
record... proving that Vernon was a time traveler!!! The crew got so depressed
listening to the fortelling of their misfortune, that they a
The "Magnavox" Frankenphone, just discussed here, appears to have the exact part you needed. The whole assembly of
soundbox, arm, base, and bracket, in fact. Only $1000+ !
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From: "Bob Maffit"
To: "'Antique Phonograph List'"
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 8:40 PM
Ron:Steve:
Thanks to you and others on the list, with helping me get my cast bracket
part for my VV 2-40 last week. I got them from Ron Sitko as you recommended.
It works well.
Again, thanks
Bob
-Original Message-
From: phono-l-boun...@oldcrank.org [mailto:phono-l-boun...@oldcrank.org]
I normally don't get mixed up in these discussions, but I hve an CA V-225,
and surprise! the cartridges are dead (and I haven't had the guts to take
on the changer). RCA used crystal pickups after 1938, with the exception of
the little puppy faced magnetic on some models.
I did buy three RCA "Ma
Thanks, Ron! I'll give that a try.
NYVM
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Ron L'Herault wrote:
> You don't have to put in a new cartridge, you can take a crystal cartridge
> apart, throw out the Rochelle salt crystal and put in a "modern" crystal
> from a 50s-6-s era crystal cartridge. I've do
The service data lists crystal cartridges for both of these.
About 30 years ago I had a V-225 (the one that plays both sides of the record).
I was able to find a couple of NOS cartridges for it, but of course they were
as dead as the used ones in the record changer. At least the needles were n
I found this on the web which may or may not prove helpful in your cartridge
rebuild project.
http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/radiosean/tv/Cartridge-rebuild.htm
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From: RBaumbach
To: Antique Phonograph List
Sent: Tue, Mar 29, 2011 1:28 pm
Subject: Re: [Pho
You don't have to put in a new cartridge, you can take a crystal cartridge
apart, throw out the Rochelle salt crystal and put in a "modern" crystal
from a 50s-6-s era crystal cartridge. I've done it successfully several
times. The only alteration to the old cartridge is that you might have to
use
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