Orchorsol wrote:And another warm welcome to you Patty! Splendid website you have there, and I very much enjoyed the miniatures too - really touching the way you've recreated the machines in your collection so lovingly.
Thanks .....
Pleased you like my website...........The miniature gramophones were quite hard to make but determination always wins!
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Final note by way of greeting. Sheffield's university is one of the great ones too; has a strong archaeology program especially.
Some of my ancestral roots are in Derbyshire (Sutton family).
So, even though so many of us on this forum are Americans, quite a few among us know the UK as well as antique phonographs/gramophones, so you should find it very congenial here.
"You must serve music, because music is so enormous and can envelop you into such a state of perpetual anxiety and torture--but it is our first and main duty"
-- Maria Callas, 1968 interview.
Very close by to us is the Abbeydale industrial hamlet which is an old industrial site with water powered tilt forge etc and workers cottages still stand.....................A truly wonderful step back in time! I am finding this forum very friendly and it is lovely to talk to other like minded friendly folks
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Let me add another welcome. You have really done a nice job displaying your collection on the website.
Clay
Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume's Laws of Collecting
1. Space will expand to accommodate an infinite number of possessions, regardless of their size.
2. Shortage of finance, however dire, will never prevent the acquisition of a desired object, however improbable its cost.
Thankyou for sharing your collection on your website - that's quite a selection of web pages you've put together! The dolls houses are amazing.
I have some similar machines, though not as nicely on display. Your Gilbert, does it have a metal horn or a wooden one? Mine is metal, and is astonishingly loud. It adds a nice "presence" to the records, though it's better to listen in the next room.
Welcome to the forum.
Cheers,
David.
(same county, but right at the other end!)
Patty wrote:Hello all,
I am new here. I am from England , so all my collection is English.
I have a Gilbert Geisha upright Gramophone (made in Sheffield england)
A Columbia Q Mignon
An Edison Standard
an unknown Horned Gramophone
A HMV portable 102
A Decca trench type portable in green
A regal hornless tabletop gramophone
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