What's going on in the UK?

[Nat]

I used to look forward every day to pictures of steam-driven gramophones, 20-foot horns, and other wild eccentricities! I hope the UK hasn't "normalized"!

[Mr Grumpy]

I've sent emails before the holidays to two dealers in the UK inquiring about machines they have available,
Never heard back...

Maybe the country shut down for the winter?

[soundgen]

we aren't having a winter ! http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=cet;sess=

[soundgen]

and inflation is down ! hooray ! Petrol down ! I wish it was the same price as in the USA or Venezuela , still we are on top of terrorism at the moment ! And Je Suis Charlie Hebdo !
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10612209

[Mr Grumpy]

we aren't having a winter ! http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=cet;sess=

That's why that haven't called back, they're out surfing!

[epigramophone]

The UK does tend to close down for a couple of weeks for Christmas and New Year, but for lovers of the elephantine all is not lost :

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281556726773? ... EBIDX%3AIT

The seller appears to be none other than Frank James, author of "The EMG Story". The starting price looks very reasonable, and a prospective purchaser could not hope for a better provenance than this. I might be tempted myself, but I doubt that my usually supportive wife would agree.

I have probably seen and heard this machine on one of my visits to Frank, but it was one machine among several and I cannot remember anything about it.

[Orchorsol]

I used to look forward every day to pictures of steam-driven gramophones, 20-foot horns, and other wild eccentricities! I hope the UK hasn't "normalized"!

To the best of my knowledge we're all very much alive and kicking, if quiet lately!

Regarding this monster http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... 11&t=14931 there are serious moves under way to restore and re-house it. Very exciting! But I don't want to steal any more of anyone else's thunder - hopefully more details will be posted here later in the year.

The UK does tend to close down for a couple of weeks for Christmas and New Year, but for lovers of the elephantine all is not lost :

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281556726773? ... EBIDX%3AIT

The seller appears to be none other than Frank James, author of "The EMG Story". The starting price looks very reasonable, and a prospective purchaser could not hope for a better provenance than this. I might be tempted myself, but I doubt that my usually supportive wife would agree.

I have probably seen and heard this machine on one of my visits to Frank, but it was one machine among several and I cannot remember anything about it.

Tempting indeed...

[Nat]

Lovely! And were I in the UK I'd probably be the poorer now.

But I meant walking beam engines powering an EMG with a 25-foot horn stretching across the lawn of some lovely home in Dorset - that kind of thing.

[gramophone78]

I used to look forward every day to pictures of steam-driven gramophones, 20-foot horns, and other wild eccentricities! I hope the UK hasn't "normalized"!

Nat, not too sure what my two "hot-air" machine's have to do with the UK....???. After all, I live very close to you up here in Canada.... .

[Nat]

I used to look forward every day to pictures of steam-driven gramophones, 20-foot horns, and other wild eccentricities! I hope the UK hasn't "normalized"!

Nat, not too sure what my two "hot-air" machine's have to do with the UK....???. After all, I live very close to you up here in Canada.... .

All part of the Empire - at least as far as gramophones go!

I have a ranch in BC - summers only now, but I love the area just north of Princeton. y cabin is stuffed with phonographs (see my avatar).