What is your least used machines?

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What is your least used machines?

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What are your least used machines for playing:

I listed in order.

Cylinder: Columbia Q, Columbia B, Columbia BK (The Q and B, are great shelf sitters but lack power, audio quality and occasionally skip)
Disc: Polly Portable, VV-IV, VV-VI, VV 1-70 (The Polly is fun to look at, the arm is heavy, and the motor is not that robust). My Victrola VV-IV and VV-VI both are early models and so I
I don't want to break the motors as they are the early.
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Pathéphone VII. Could never get the motor to run evenly. :evil:
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Graphophone Type "N"; for fear of damaging it.

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Busy Bee Cylinder machine

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My Pathé model III table top, which I only use to play vertical cut Pathé discs.

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Columbia AP - the model without any feed screw. And my worthless Puck :lol:

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Victor R - fiber gear is missing a tooth!
Columbia Q and B - nice to look at, ok to touch, but to listen, not so much
Edison Gem (branded case) - no amount of Medved Massage could make the weird little reproducer sound good

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My Regina Hexaphone Model 103.

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My Puck. Every time I want to play it the cats have messed up the string :(

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Least played? The ones that are buried by other phonographs. Seems most of my floor models have become pedestals for my horn machines.

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