Here's one you don't see every day -- an off-brand console with an electric motor and a swing-out turntable that seems to disconnect the tone arm from the horn when open and reconnect it with a felt gasket when closed. Horn looks like it may be spruce? Really odd, and quite attractive. Certainly cheap enough at forty-five bucks to make it worth the effort to restore. (Not mine.)
https://boston.craigslist.org/bmw/atq/d ... 77919.html
A Very Unusual Console, Cheap -- CL, Lexington MA
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Re: A Very Unusual Console, Cheap -- CL, Lexington MA
If you have the space, that is certainly an interesting machine AND the price is right... It is one of the most attractive console machines I have seen.
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Re: A Very Unusual Console, Cheap -- CL, Lexington MA
That's nearly identical to one I had given to me by a friend several years ago. I could not discover the manufacturer's identity. http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... =2&t=16305 The cabinet on mine was too damaged for me to take on, so I ended up giving it away to a local flea market guy.
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Re: A Very Unusual Console, Cheap -- CL, Lexington MA
It does kinda look like a Fletcher tonearm.
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Re: A Very Unusual Console, Cheap -- CL, Lexington MA
A Colonial Revival piece in the manner of a William & Mary lowboy. For those interested, just Google images for William and Mary lowboy and you shall see the originals this was based on.
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Re: A Very Unusual Console, Cheap -- CL, Lexington MA
Interesting. Not very well designed, but interesting.
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