Baby Face - Lou Gold & His Orchestra 1926

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Baby Face - Lou Gold & His Orchestra 1926

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(Double-click the video above or click this link to watch the video on YouTube in HD.)


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Thanks for sharing.. I find Harmony records are very funny... Perhaps Fields voice sounds as if the record is being played too slow...
What a marvel of machine! The player rotated so steadily that you can't tell if it's rotating at all ...! We're so used to wobbly or twisted platters that you see the edge going up and down at each turn... although it be only a tiny bit. But yours goes so steady that I had to zoom the video to the record label to see if it was indeed rotating! :D
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Thank you Inigo!

My Victor O does have a wobbly platter. Possibly due too a bent spindle.

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Yes, I've seen it in your videos. Maybe you could try to reshape it a bit, because it seems that the up and down movement is noticeable in the music, and it's a pity, for the sun's of your O is great! I wish my HMV style 3 sounded half as good... It's because of the horn. Clearly the external horn Victors sounded better than the same era Victrolas....
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