Do you give your phonographs names?

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Cody K
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Do you give your phonographs names?

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Okay, I'm out on a limb here (as usual), but I really need to know...does anyone else give their phonographs names? I've got, among others, Carlos Credenza, Eldora and D'Zweet, and Chuck.

Am I...completely insane?
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I've called some of them names... and not neccssarily the same one twice... :lol:
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Hmm.....I have called my Victrola's ...... Vicki
Maybe I should name my Magnola............. Maggie
My Pathé'.................................. Patty
Amberola 30................................ Amber
Edison Home................................ Homer
Columbia machine........................... Colleen
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Nope. I do not give my phonographs and gramophones names.
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After posting my comment on boiling springs and baking them in the kitchen oven, naming gramophones sounds pretty tame to me. We are all naturally aware that collecting things is a mild form of insanity anyway... :shock: But, no, I don't name my machines, nor I talk to them. I listen to what they tell me, though.
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No I don't give my machines names. Most of them already have names inside their lids.

I don't even name my cars, but my wife christened my Armstrong Siddeley "Hissing Sid" after it blew a radiator hose in spectacular fashion, sending water and steam everywhere.
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epigramophone wrote:No I don't give my machines names. Most of them already have names inside their lids.

I don't even name my cars, but my wife christened my Armstrong Siddeley "Hissing Sid" after it blew a radiator hose in spectacular fashion, sending water and steam everywhere.

:lol: Love it ! :D
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Oh i've called them plenty of names...mostly caused by frustration boiling up during adjustments and repairs! !#%$^&*#@@ :x
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Dave wrote:Oh i've called them plenty of names...mostly caused by frustration boiling up during adjustments and repairs! !#%$^&*#@@ :x
This exactly. :D
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No, I don't name my phonographs. I let them speak for themselves.
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