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C.1962. This EMG radiogram turned up recently and I was kindly sent some pics.
https://www.gramophonemuseum.com/davey- ... CU3-S.html
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That thing looks like the sixties in persona. Love it.

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I never seen one like that - thank you for sharing the photos, Chunny.

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Wonderful to see, many thanks Chunny. Let's hope it isn't broken up for its valuable amplifiers as most of them seem to be.
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Looks like a Lenco turntable

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In the States, the style of this phonograph would be called Mid-Century Modern or MCM for short. I think that's a relatively new term. Anything the auction houses label MCM now brings very high prices. I think this particular market is driven by people of a certain age trying to capture the phantom of their long-lost childhood. Give it a few more years and prices will drop along with NIB Star Wars toys, another market driven by people of a certain age.

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jboger wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2023 6:35 am In the States, the style of this phonograph would be called Mid-Century Modern or MCM for short. I think that's a relatively new term. Anything the auction houses label MCM now brings very high prices. I think this particular market is driven by people of a certain age trying to capture the phantom of their long-lost childhood. Give it a few more years and prices will drop along with NIB Star Wars toys, another market driven by people of a certain age.
Maybe. I think that the people who collect EMG gramophones and related items would suggest that there is always a strong market for this 'superior' brand. I could be wrong though.

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poodling around wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2023 6:48 am
jboger wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2023 6:35 am In the States, the style of this phonograph would be called Mid-Century Modern or MCM for short. I think that's a relatively new term. Anything the auction houses label MCM now brings very high prices. I think this particular market is driven by people of a certain age trying to capture the phantom of their long-lost childhood. Give it a few more years and prices will drop along with NIB Star Wars toys, another market driven by people of a certain age.

Maybe. I think that the people who collect EMG gramophones and related items would suggest that there is always a strong market for this 'superior' brand. I could be wrong though.
Except that by the time this was made, EMG wasn't a superior brand for anything. Far from it. You're quite right about the sentiment though, however misplaced it might be in general.

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jboger wrote: Wed Apr 12, 2023 6:35 am In the States, the style of this phonograph would be called Mid-Century Modern or MCM for short. I think that's a relatively new term. Anything the auction houses label MCM now brings very high prices. I think this particular market is driven by people of a certain age trying to capture the phantom of their long-lost childhood. Give it a few more years and prices will drop along with NIB Star Wars toys, another market driven by people of a certain age.

Absolutely right. Unquestionably so. We've seen it already in so many markets, not least the phonograph (gramophones) market since the 90s.

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Hi Poodling Around.

I think I should clarify that I wasn't impugning this particular phonograph nor even Mid Century Modern, which can be furniture or wall clocks or table lamps, coffee tables--stuff from the Fifties, Sixties*, and early Seventies. Even record players, such as this one. Some of it I actually like; the lines can be quite clean.

John

*Miniskirts. They're part of the Sixties. I see that Mary Quant has died. I keep hoping they come back.

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