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Today's Arrival!
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phonogfp
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AmberolaAndy
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Re: Today's Arrival!
How appropriate. I’m getting a 1898 home soon! 
Still haven’t renewed. Just too many projects and so Little cash…
Still haven’t renewed. Just too many projects and so Little cash…
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PeterF
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Re: Today's Arrival!
How about a shot of the table of contents, too, to help entice any fencesitters?
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Phono-Phan
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Re: Today's Arrival!
Another GREAT issue!!!!
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phonogfp
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AllenKoe
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Re: Today's Arrival!
Hi,
Always great to get another fascinating issue of AP and a great presentation of new details about our favorite machines. Is there any collector who does not dream of someday finding one of the first drawer-style Edison Home Phonographs of 1896? The beautiful gold, red & black decals on the lids still stun the imagination. The suggestion that the number of thin vertical lines just below the capital D can be used to date the sequential order of manufacture has still not caught on however... (i.e. the fewer, the older).
One often sees a brief reference to a "Waterbury manufacturer" as the source of the odd 2-spring brass motors, but almost never the name of the originating clock company that submitted it to Edison for phono-adaptation (jewels and all). Why is that when it could be pictured and found in their 1896 catalog (for clocks)? It originally ran for days.
A little Theremin music please...
... and congrats to all the authors and Nathan, the Editor.
Best
Allen
Always great to get another fascinating issue of AP and a great presentation of new details about our favorite machines. Is there any collector who does not dream of someday finding one of the first drawer-style Edison Home Phonographs of 1896? The beautiful gold, red & black decals on the lids still stun the imagination. The suggestion that the number of thin vertical lines just below the capital D can be used to date the sequential order of manufacture has still not caught on however... (i.e. the fewer, the older).
One often sees a brief reference to a "Waterbury manufacturer" as the source of the odd 2-spring brass motors, but almost never the name of the originating clock company that submitted it to Edison for phono-adaptation (jewels and all). Why is that when it could be pictured and found in their 1896 catalog (for clocks)? It originally ran for days.
A little Theremin music please...
... and congrats to all the authors and Nathan, the Editor.
Best
Allen
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AllenKoe
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Re: Today's Arrival!
It is not often (never?) noted that the two "diminutive" springs in the side-by-side clockwork motor were actually nine feet long and ⅝" wide.
The very first "switches" (combined on the string-drive mech) were only on-and-off and were very difficult to maintain in rpm. For a short time, the company provided a small piece of curved spring metal on/in the bedplate slot in order to repeat a previous (rpm) setting. Have any of those little "pressure guides" survived?
Allen
The very first "switches" (combined on the string-drive mech) were only on-and-off and were very difficult to maintain in rpm. For a short time, the company provided a small piece of curved spring metal on/in the bedplate slot in order to repeat a previous (rpm) setting. Have any of those little "pressure guides" survived?
Allen