I second the motion. I had an Electrola XVII myself, and it was a beautiful
machine, with the record light, etc, but to be honest, I missed the pure joy of
winding the spring myself, which I think is central to enjoyment of phonograph
collecting. I sold it in favor of an English Oak XIV (or was
I know when I bought my first Victrola the whole novelty of the thing was
that you had to wind it up to play a record. None of my friends had ever
seen one and it was amazing that it worked without electricity. It was a VV
XIV. I gave away the XIV when I got a XVII and had a chance to get an
...@earthlink.net (Douglas Houston)
Date: Sun Jan 7 19:09:38 2007
Subject: [Phono-L] Electrolas
Message-ID: <410-220071183912...@earthlink.net>
The preference for spring motors is, as I see it that there is an anxiety
over anything electrical, and that the spring motors are easier to serv
I think it has more to do with the type of record than anything else. All of
the electric flat disc
machines are much less valuable than their spring driven counterpart, no matter
the manufacturer.
Rich
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 18:14:48 -0800 (PST), DeeDee Blais wrote:
>It has been my observatio
an 7 18:25:35 2007
From: lhera...@bu.edu (Ron L'Herault)
Date: Sun Jan 7 18:26:57 2007
Subject: [Phono-L] Electrolas
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Message-ID: <000201c732cc$47d24bf0$2f01a...@ronlherault>
Could it be that the wind ups are more readily/easily s
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