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epigramophone wrote:

De Soto Frank wrote:

Lucius1958 wrote:One drawback:

You must play ONLY Egyptian-themed records on it ("Old King Tut", "Cleopatra", "The Crocodile" etc.), lest you fall victim to the Pyramida Curse, where your house is infested with shellac-eating locusts….

Bill

Don't forget "Leena from Palesteena"...

If your musical tastes are classical, there is always "Aida".

Well-said !

I'm strangely compelled to bid on this...

And done.

Also,
Egyptian-Ella by Ted Weems....................

Jerry F Bacon-Dallas,Tx

A Piramida machine with an identical finish was offered at the last (4/24/14) Stanton's phonograh auction, as lit 526z. As I recall it didn't break $500. Note that my memory might be faulty as far as to the price realized, as I do not have my list at hand for this sale.

HisMastersVoice wrote:I'm strangely compelled to bid on this...

And done.

It is a strangely compelling machine...

The one at Stantons sold for $800. This one, interestingly, has painted edges! Nice machine, too!

When I was in high school, I visited an elderly, very reclusive, very curmudgeonly collector in Louisville, Kentucky who had a Diamond Disc Phonograph in an absolutely beautiful Egyptian-style cabinet. I recall it having bulbous columns on the corners, golden sphinx-heads at the top of the columns, hieroglyphic-like figures painted where the frieze would be on a C-250, and stylized lotos flowers painted on the top, front, and sides. He died after I had moved to California and I heard his heirs sold his collection. I've never seen anything like it (other than this Pirimida) and I've never forgotten it. I figure it was done in a custom shop.

One wonders if any of these still lurk in old Knights of Pythias or Masonic lodges - they would seem to be obvious customers.

Edisone wrote:One wonders if any of these still lurk in old Knights of Pythias or Masonic lodges - they would seem to be obvious customers.

Funny you should ask... I work for a performing arts center that shares a historic Scottish Rite Cathedral and Masonic Temple, built in 1928, with the still-active Masonic community. We are also host to the local chapter of the Knights of Pythias.

We do have a collection ( archive?) of sound-effects records on 10" 78's, but if there were any wind-up phonographs, they are long-gone.

It would be a hoot to see one of the characters in a ritual play something on a Pyrimida...

Well, it sold for $750. I ended up letting it go because I bought the RE-45 during the course of the auction, and the one vacant place I had for a machine is now occupied (and I still have an 8-9 coming in the fall ). Oh well...