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Posted: **Tue Jul 23, 2019 2:12 pm**

I appreciate all of y'alls responses. Sorry for the bad grammar, or is it?
I'm from Texas.

Well, from what I have seen online, the identification tag may be underneath where the record is played?
And also from what I have seen, removing the top should be pretty simple, but since I have never worked on
a Victrola, I am a little scared to remove it, afraid that I might not be able to put the top back on.

Any input is appreciated!
Derek

Posted: **Tue Jul 23, 2019 2:16 pm**

Speaking of phonograph's, have you ever heard the song by Robert Johnson entitled, "Phonograph Blues"?
If you have not, search for it on YouTube.
Maybe I should just refer to my Victrola as a phonograph?

I know the term, but I just don't use it.

Derek

alang wrote:Coming originally from Europe I usually say phonographs and gramophones. Only when I get the blank stare I remember to mention Victrolas, which at least some people seem to remember. Of course, that includes everything with a crank that makes music
Occasionally people remember only RCA Victrolas from the 40s or 50s, then it pretty much includes everything that plays a disc record.

Funny enough, often the reaction to seeing a cylinder phonograph play appears similar to what Edison must have experienced, close to a magic trick. With everything electronic now fewer and fewer people seem to have an understanding of mechanical possibilities.

Andreas

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