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The bar on the metal base for the Edison School machine actually pulls out and works as a shelf to place a record carton for making a selection. The 8-7 and 8-8 are really mobile compared to the VV-XXV and Edison. The Edison base has caster type wheels but is really top heavy with the machine on top.
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Forum members are always welcome to stop in Albany for a visit. Jerry Blais
School Machines - A collection within a collection
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Re: School Machines - A collection within a collection
Jerry, you will need to get the Victrola IX and matching wheeled cabinet to add to your school collection. Columbia had wheeled cabinets to use in the schools also. A collector could assemble a sizeable collection of just school house machines if they wanted to specialize.
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Re: School Machines - A collection within a collection
gemering wrote:As a public school teacher and coach for the past 28 years, I've been waiting to see these machines.
Very nice indeed!
I would love to own an 8-7 and 8-8 someday.
The closest I come is an 8-9, which by the way, I love to play records on!
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Wow, what a pleasant environment !!! The showcase is great beside the Victrola to !!
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Re: School Machines - A collection within a collection
Interesting thread Jerry. I had never seen one of the Edisons.
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2. Shortage of finance, however dire, will never prevent the acquisition of a desired object, however improbable its cost.
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Re: School Machines - A collection within a collection
That is a telescoping support that pulls out so you can set a record box on it.coyote wrote:I think I recall reading somewhere the hypothesis that the regular Cygnet bells were repurposed this way. I had never noticed the bar at the front of the Edison School cabinet that runs around the side before. I presume this is a grab bar for moving it on its casters?