How many machines are in your living room?

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Re: How many machines are in your living room?

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That's a PAL portable marketed through upscale department stores. Wonderful machines, absolutely top- tier. I'd love to find another one.
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A Columbia BS and GEM Roller Organ on a built-in bookcase. The dining room has a Vic 6 on matching cabinet and a small mahogany Reginaphone console in two corners. The rest is upstairs where I've taken over the entire loft and one bedroom - kinda crazy?

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None in the living room, but two Edison Triumphs and an Edison Standard in the spare bedroom/music room.

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OrthoFan wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2025 12:39 pm My so-called "collection" consists of three models --

A Victor V
A Victor VV-4-40 (missing it's leg stretcher)
A non-branded Paillard portable

They're all in my living room.
Really not much, but there's no room for anything else... :cry:

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Nothing "so called" about it, those are all very nice machines!

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Re: How many machines are in your living room?

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We have a variety of items in the parlor...3 Regina automatic changers, a maroon gem, 2 Columbia piano machines, Regina desk machine, large Paillard music box on table, Edison Idelia (earliest serial number on record), Columbia BY w/ inlaid MOP Music Master horn, 3 Victor VI's on original cabinets, 5 Edison dolls, 2 Jumeau dolls, 2 Amberola 1A's.
I think that is it...

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I have a Columbia desk model with the pull out record player, a Victrola IX and a Victrola XIV, an Edison Amberola 50 and a Edison Amberola VIII A Edison F home with a cygnet wood horn and finally a Edison standard F with an oak painted cygnet horn . I had to take my Edison home C out with a cygnet horn last month after my daughter re did the living room. It ended up in my bedroom. I think she wanted to tone it down a little. I may have to take one of the ambrolas out too she crowded it up. The Victrola XIV though is in the adjacent dining room though.

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i used to have my amberola 30 in the living room, but moved it into my room about year ago. at a few flea markets, I've seen furniture-sized victrolas and gramophones for a really great price. if i ever get one of those, i think it'll have to stay downstairs, no way i can carry it up :D

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Living room - 0. Dining room - 4 (Columbia BI Sterling, Edison Triumph A with 2/4 adapter & 11 panel cygnet horn, Victor V with Oak spear horn & Edison Schubert).
Basement - Too numerous to mention!
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In the living room is an Edison A250, Edison Triumph Model B with 2/4 minute conversion and with 11 panel Cygnet horn and a Capehart 400M Deluxe Chippendale for 78's.

The Triumph has a Diamond B reproducer for Blue Amberols, a Model N for wax Amberols and a model N I fitted with a two minute stylus for two minute records.

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Our living room sort of blends into the dining room, but in the living room/dining room I currently have an oak C-250, an early oak Victrola XIV, a Victrola XVI in Circassian walnut, a mahogany VTLA flat-top, a VIctrola 8-35, a Victrola XVI in American walnut, a Victor XXV, a Victrola in a custom cholla cactus cabinet, a mahogany Herzog Amberola I-A, an oak Pooley Amberola I-A, a mahogany Columbia Grafonola Elite, a mahogany Columbia Symphony Grand, a Victrola 8-7, a mahogany Edison A-150, a low-trunnion Columbia Type AT, an Edison Model C GEM, and an oak Regina music box on a Herzog base.
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