, gutta-percha diaphragms, and bombastic ad copy.
there, i went and said it. feel free to go nuts with the
cheney-disparagement now...it's part of the package!
-- peter
pjfra...@alamedanet.net
oops. everyone, cover your eyes!
jim...@earthlink.net wrote:
Dear Mr. Hawthorn:
I mailed in my bids several days ago trust you have received them by
now.
Is the gold-plated new-old dealer's stock Edisonic diamond disc
reproducer all original? I have heard horror stories of Edison
lots of hand-wringing going on over this!
what i always do is ask myself whether the object is something that
pleases me and whether i can live with it - either long- or short-term -
until a nicer one comes along. and then i decide whether i think the
price paid is good value or not.
and from
guys, just copy-paste the thing into your browser, if it isn't clickable.
don't try to type anything unless you're paying attention to the details.
or if your mail client has cut the thing into multiple lines and you can't
manually re-assemble it, try this shortened version:
my daily drivers, from 1980 to 1989, when my new bride politely requested
that i get a real (i.e. reliable) car:
'69 Alfa Spider (still have)
'60 Chrysler NYer 4dr HT
'60 Buick Electra 225 conv (still have)
'63 Rambler American 330 wagon
'58 Dodge (Suburban?) wagon
'60 Chrysler NYer 4dr HT wagon
downward to sound authentically crappy?
Dennis Back wrote:
--- pjfra...@alamedanet.net wrote:
... and altho we
don't do that in our
old cars (baseball or oldies AM stations fit well
in 60's vintage stuff)
there're lots of nice portable ipod speaker systems
out there.
Great speakers
Somebody needs to engage Ron Dethlefson on this, because he may be able to
help!
Andrew Baron wrote:
Hi Rich and thank you for checking in.
I find the formative years of development of the Edison Disc
technology to be very compelling, and I'm learning that there doesn't
seem to be much known
so i just took the plunge and forwarded the string to him.
pjfra...@alamedanet.net wrote:
Somebody needs to engage Ron Dethlefson on this, because he may be able
to
help!
Andrew Baron wrote:
Hi Rich and thank you for checking in.
I find the formative years of development of the Edison
oh, how that made me cringe!
i've been replacing all the hardware in our 1913 craftsman-style house,
bit by bit, with original oxidized-bronze items as I find them. i'm sure
many of you will agree, it's one of the most lovely decorative touches
from the era of our phonos.
victor r!!! amberola
there were certainly changers to be had in the teens. plus the vic 10-50
(and other victors with changers) came out in 1927, and even though they
were expensive, they were available to the masses...
Dr. Houston, here's your cue!
Andrew Baron wrote:
I think the real question is: Does the
Gang -
My copy arrived recently, and it's quite nice - worthy of addition to
any phono or cylinder collector's library. There's a wealth of
information, plus many many reproductions of advertising and catalogs
for the large-format cylinders and machines.
Cheers,
Peter
pjfra...@alamedanet.net
Dwayne and Donna prefer the personal touch of telephone contact.
There's a bunch of reasons, but primarily it's because you can rebuild
a reproducer or lube a motor while talking on the phone, but you can't
do it while typing. There are only so many hours in the day...and if
you saw how slow
there was some chatter on phonolist recently about a cylinder record
with narrative seemingly describing motion pictures or perhaps magic
lantern slides - looks exactly like the setup here would fit that.
On Nov 2, 2003, at 6:02 PM, Ron L'Herault wrote:
I second the opinion that the tubing
-- Peter
pjfra...@alamedanet.net
of on-line ordering, Plus, they (illegally) charge
a
surcharge for credit card use so I have to have extra cash on hand,
send
them a check wait for the check to get there, probably wait for the
check to
clear and then wait for the item to be shipped.
Ron L
-- Peter
pjfra...@alamedanet.net
://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/
--
-- Peter
pjfra...@alamedanet.net
, types of
phonographs, advertisements, and catalogs. There are 156
illustrations,
36 in color.
Edition is limited to 250 numbered copies, 8x ll size. Price:
$44.00,
postpaid, from:
Ron Dethlefson 3605 Christmas Tree Ln Bakersfield, CA 93306-1114.
Happy reading! Ron
--
-- Peter
pjfra
Gang -
A lady emailed me today looking for help to get sound off of some old
floppy red plastic mid-century Ediphone discs...which as you may know,
they called Diamond Discs.
They have her dead husband's voice on them, and she wants recordings
made for her kids.
Any help?
--
-- Peter
pjfra
.
Gregg
pjfra...@alamedanet.net wrote:
i've long been curious: what do these sound like? the two horns
are
out of phase so wouldn't the sound be a little...funky?
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:08:54 -0400 'Gregory Cline'
gwpho...@woh.rr.com wrote:
Hello group,
I would like to offer my
1918.
Book contains 11 Victrola records.
Records include:
Benny
Goodman
Tommy
Dorsey
Kay Kyser
Guy
Lambardo
Fred
Astaire
Made by RCA Manufacturing Company,
Inc.
-- Peter
pjfra...@alamedanet.net
The man who does not read good books has no advantage
over the man who can't read them
Folks -
Since the death of famed reproducer experimenter and rebuilder Bob
Waltrip, has anyone emerged as a person interested in experimenting
with getting the best quality sound out of the Edison diamond disc
reproducer?
-- Peter
pjfra...@alamedanet.net
, but it is mechanical music -
a Regina music box and stand and discs. Here are some pictures:
http://homepage.mac.com/pjfraser/phono/PhotoAlbum138.html
Take a look - it's really beautiful. I plan to eBay it, probably this
weekend, so if you want it you know what to do next...
--
-- Peter
pjfra
i have a simpler explanation:
- he meant censorship
- he thought he was addressing phonolist, not phono-L
haw.
Albert wrote:
Dan: must be those liberal Graphophone collectors. Real Men prefer
Edison.
LOL Al
- Original Message -
From: Daniel Melvin d...@old-phonographs.com
To:
and lest anyone misinterpret, i'm just poking a little fun at my supremely
taciturn buddy Tim. he never sings awful old 60s pop songs, either,
honest, i swear!
pjfra...@alamedanet.net wrote:
i think i know why people can sometimes perceive these projects as Tim's,
plain and simple: could
I have a unit which burns DVDs directly from VHS tapes, and would gladly
burn copies of this for list-pals, for the cost of postage...if Doug would
see fit to lend it out for that purpose. Doug?
-- peter
pjfra...@alamedanet.net
Doug wrote:
The Antique Radio Club Of Illinois sold a videotape
send them to me and i'll host them on a webpage, plus make full-res
versions available for download.
this goes for ANY phono-related pix any of you folks may want to share.
Robert Wright wrote:
I can't get photobucket to stop resizing the blurb pics so small they
can't
be read, grrr. So
purpose for years and years
now (especially if that Japanese gentleman can get 5 lasers to play an
LP).
I'm beyond curious about how things are coming along. Can't wait to get
your impressions, Peter!
- Original Message -
From: Peter Fraser pjfra...@alamedanet.net
Using Optical
and from the looks of things, the presentation will be available here:
http://instrumentationcolloquium.lbl.gov/
for download after the fact. gee, maybe i ought to videotape it.
Robert Wright wrote:
I did a Google search with the words Irene, Berkeley, Optical, and Sound,
and found a single
have in my
collection. It'd be nice to send this sort of special item to one of our
group rahter than a random ebayer. Location is the SF Bay Area, and the
price, well let's talk.
-- Peter
pjfra...@alamedanet.net
it was? hint: he
was mentioned here over the past week! with that sort of a success
record, i'd say this list is mighty close to just right...
-- peter
pjfra...@alamedanet.net
Don Mayer wrote:
I don't know why anyone would be turned off by the postings on this
list. They are almost always on topic
I've done this and it's a fun and worthwhile challenge, but quite
difficult to assure success. The parts can be found, but...
- the kits are usually expensive when they do turn up
- the installation is hard to perform properly, even if you are quite
adept and have the excellent reprinted
Medved rocks. Nuff' said!
Steven Medved wrote:
Hi George Paul, George, and Al,
This is from my research, other collectors, and what I have seen so any
additions or corrections are welcomed...
.
-- peter
pjfra...@alamedanet.net
Andrew Baron wrote:
When I place a late, paper label DD record with a bold vocal track on
my A-250, at the moment the voice begins, my dog launches into barking
the same as if someone's just come to the house. It takes some effort
to convince him that no one
comments interspersed below...
Dan Kjeldgaard wrote:
Bob also totally scr()wed me with Orthophonic and Edison rebuilds.
Perhaps he'd lost his alleged touch by then, but both were the worst
botch-jobs ever heard by my ears. Sad.
i'd not heard of this. most folks were polarized either for or
i think we may be over-analyzing a little. perhaps the best thing to do
is find a cylinder that is half-gone already (e.g., one with a surface
that is severely damaged at one section, but that still has playable
parts) and experiment.
but yes, in a perfect world the spirals would be gray and
this is a fun topic.
just an opinion, but i'd say victor didn't issue many LP sets programmed
for changers because they just never had much of a chance given the dismal
market conditions. all from memory, but i think i remember this was only
about a 2-year run. it would thus probably make sense
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