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I would buy that in a second for $65.00. Record cabinets just don't show up in my area.

They don't show up near me often either. For $65, it would already be at my house!

Matt

The guy who owns it told me that he would bet me a million dollars that it's a sheet music cabinet not a disc record cabinet and if it is a disc record cabinet he would give it to me. Maybe I should show him this thread.

Sheet music cabinets usually have thin flimsy horizontal shelves and sometimes they have a back stop on the top.

mattrx wrote:They don't show up near me often either. For $65, it would already be at my house!

I second that! Memphis has been kind of dry lately

Victrolaboy wrote:The guy who owns it told me that he would bet me a million dollars that it's a sheet music cabinet not a disc record cabinet and if it is a disc record cabinet he would give it to me. Maybe I should show him this thread.

Nick,
Without even opening it, here is what I see.

-The cabinet is square in plan or deeper than it is wide. The majority of sheet music cabinets are wider than deep for storing stacks of sheet music accessed by the fold supported by horizontal shelves. Many record cabinets are square or rectangular in plan and deeper than they are wide. Either way in the proportions of the machine they were meant to be used under. There is also no back crest or gallery that you see on many music cabinets and no drawer for parlor music accessories.

-Most (but not all) music cabinets have a single door - this cabinet has 2. This was done to compliment the machine's tone control doors above and make it look a little bit more like a floor machine.

-Most importantly this cabinet has cabriole feet that extend up into the corner design. A detail highly popularized by Victor's Victorla cabinets. These corners extend all the way up to the top and end abruptly without a rail or drawer or some detail I might see on a music cabinet because this cabinet was designed to hold a machine.

The interior may have horizontal shelves with crescent cut outs at the edge for holding short stacks of records or albums - much like a music cabinet which may have given the impression to the seller.

My impression is record cabinet as well...

Go get it...

Darren

Darren is spot on correct. Jerry B.

I learned a lot from Darren's post. I have usually just looked at the shelves to see if they are thin or made thicker to hold records. I just got an education! Thanks for the post.

Someone else already bought it and the flea market is over anyway. The flea market in Nashville is only on the 4th week end of every month. Oh well.