Starting the restoration on the $25 Brunswick YO

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Re: Starting the restoration on the $25 Brunswick YO

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And here is the last update.

The 1922 Brunswick York, in return for ninety-six years of fidelity, received an honorable Catholic funeral in consecrated ground. It died of natural causes due to mainspring failure. Efforts of technicians to save the phonograph were interrupted due to the explosion of the No. 2 spring. In pace requiescat. Currently it lies in the crypt (or the sub-basement, more like,) of the seminary.

I was a Catholic seminarian but homeschooling, low emotional maturity (and general klutziness), and so forth led to me unexpectedly being asked to withdraw from the program of priestly formation. Yet there is a very strong possibility I shall return, so I gave the old machine to my best friend--he thinks I am returning, and if/when I do I shall replace the spring, and we shall drink strong Irish beers and blast 1920s foxtrots at full volume on that old spruce horn.

I now sell auto parts full time, the Brunswick's still a wreck but a very beautiful, much polished, reassembled wreck, and I'm building character and hopefully they say I can go back. Hey, that's why Catholics say Rosaries all the time, right!!

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Re: Starting the restoration on the $25 Brunswick YO

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Sorry to hear the news friend. On the bright side, at least you have more time to devout to our wonderful hobby.

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VanEpsFan1914 wrote:And here is the last update.

The 1922 Brunswick York, in return for ninety-six years of fidelity, received an honorable Catholic funeral in consecrated ground. It died of natural causes due to mainspring failure. Efforts of technicians to save the phonograph were interrupted due to the explosion of the No. 2 spring. In pace requiescat. Currently it lies in the crypt (or the sub-basement, more like,) of the seminary.

I was a Catholic seminarian but homeschooling, low emotional maturity (and general klutziness), and so forth led to me unexpectedly being asked to withdraw from the program of priestly formation. Yet there is a very strong possibility I shall return, so I gave the old machine to my best friend--he thinks I am returning, and if/when I do I shall replace the spring, and we shall drink strong Irish beers and blast 1920s foxtrots at full volume on that old spruce horn.

I now sell auto parts full time, the Brunswick's still a wreck but a very beautiful, much polished, reassembled wreck, and I'm building character and hopefully they say I can go back. Hey, that's why Catholics say Rosaries all the time, right!!
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Re: Starting the restoration on the $25 Brunswick YO

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Progress in many ways. :)

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VanEpsFan1914 wrote:And here is the last update.

The 1922 Brunswick York, in return for ninety-six years of fidelity, received an honorable Catholic funeral in consecrated ground. It died of natural causes due to mainspring failure. Efforts of technicians to save the phonograph were interrupted due to the explosion of the No. 2 spring. In pace requiescat. Currently it lies in the crypt (or the sub-basement, more like,) of the seminary.

I was a Catholic seminarian but homeschooling, low emotional maturity (and general klutziness), and so forth led to me unexpectedly being asked to withdraw from the program of priestly formation. Yet there is a very strong possibility I shall return, so I gave the old machine to my best friend--he thinks I am returning, and if/when I do I shall replace the spring, and we shall drink strong Irish beers and blast 1920s foxtrots at full volume on that old spruce horn.

I now sell auto parts full time, the Brunswick's still a wreck but a very beautiful, much polished, reassembled wreck, and I'm building character and hopefully they say I can go back. Hey, that's why Catholics say Rosaries all the time, right!!
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Re: Starting the restoration on the $25 Brunswick YO

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LOL!

Well, that's the fact. I do hope to go back but really I wasn't ready. Currently I've been jamming out though and working through one day at a time. Good stuff.

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