, but forgot paid good money
for another copy - not as much fun as Xmas ... it's more like Tax Return
day.
- Original Message - From: john9...@pacbell.net
To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Once upon a time
The great part about becoming older is that you forget what you have and you can
have Christmas several times per year. Happy Holidays! :-)
Ron K
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Wow, what a nice surprise! Wish I could find a Standard in my attic...
--- On Sun, 12/12/10, DanKj ediso...@verizon.net wrote:
From: DanKj ediso...@verizon.net
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Once upon a time,
To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org
Date: Sunday, December 12, 2010, 8:49 AM
I
I thought some shady roofers entered my attic and stole my grandfather's home-built speaker cabinet (with expensive 15
hi-fi speaker) about 12 years ago. I hauled many boxes of Xmas decor down, last week . and there's the speaker, tucked
underneath a sewing machine cabinet surrounded by
Well, find wasn't quite accurate - I should have said rediscovered a Standard that I paid for, 10 years ago . Good
thing the seller was honest - he/she (I forget) could have sent bricks and I wouldn't have known until now! Also knew how
to protect a horn - it was very carefully packed and has
phono-l@oldcrank.org
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Once upon a time,
Well, find wasn't quite accurate - I should have said rediscovered a
Standard that I paid for, 10 years ago . Good
thing the seller was honest - he/she (I forget) could have sent bricks and I
wouldn't have known until now! Also knew
day.
- Original Message -
From: john9...@pacbell.net
To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Once upon a time,
I understood. But finding a long laid away phono is like finding a new one :-)
John
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Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Once upon a time,
Going through boxes of records which haven't been seen since buying them is
just like Christmas morning! I have this?
ooo, and this? wow, and these!
Discovering that I already had a record, but forgot paid good money for
another copy
I would say this re. missing items. It can be very easy to assume a
person took something when they've been visiting and an important
item is missing. But invariably, I've found that things have a way of
reappearing.
I once lost a couple of 5 Berliners. (Fortunately, no one had been
visiting
I agree to that Kurt. I have many things lost. They will pop up. I would say
worse yet when I was very active collecting records I would see a nice label
on Kurt's glossy covers or at a friends house. A year or two later I swore I
owned it. Would spend hours looking for what I didn't own. Kept my
--- On Sat, 12/11/10, Mike Stitt smst...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Mike Stitt smst...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Once upon a time,
To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org
Date: Saturday, December 11, 2010, 3:11 PM
I agree to that Kurt. I have many things lost. They will pop up. I
I visited the home of a long-time collector in New Jersey. He had
passed away, and his sister was handling the estate. She told me that
some months earlier, a particular fellow showed up to look at the
collection (presumably at her invitation). He was given access to the
rooms containing the
So true. I once opened my home to an out of town collector for a weekend and
let him run wild in my record archive trusting he would be careful and bring
things upstairs to play (as he did). I noticed a couple of months later when
looking on the shelves for a certain disc that it was gone,
Phonograph Listphono-l@oldcrank.org
Reply-To: Antique Phonograph List phono-l@oldcrank.org
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Once upon a time,
So true. I once opened my home to an out of town collector for a weekend and
let him run wild in my record archive trusting he would be careful and bring
things
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