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JerryVan wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:46 am Posts like this always make me wonder why we would expect "John Q. Public" to have any idea what type of record to properly play on a 110-year-old Edison phonograph.

Like, we want new collectors… but we don’t want the ones with severe millenialitis

When I was 12 or 13 years old, a family friend gave me an Edison B80 machine. I kept trying to play lateral-cut shellac records on it. Of course, they sounded horrible, but in 1967 I was clueless as to why and did not know who to ask about the technology. I don't remember what happened to that phonograph . . . lost -- like so many things -- in the mists of time.

MisterGramophone wrote: Sat Jun 28, 2025 8:53 pm

JerryVan wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:46 am Posts like this always make me wonder why we would expect "John Q. Public" to have any idea what type of record to properly play on a 110-year-old Edison phonograph.

Like, we want new collectors… but we don’t want the ones with severe millenialitis

I'm between the ages of 29 and 44 do I have it by default?

AmberolaAndy wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 12:46 am

MisterGramophone wrote: Sat Jun 28, 2025 8:53 pm

JerryVan wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:46 am Posts like this always make me wonder why we would expect "John Q. Public" to have any idea what type of record to properly play on a 110-year-old Edison phonograph.

Like, we want new collectors… but we don’t want the ones with severe millenialitis

I'm between the ages of 29 and 44 do I have it by default?

Based on the fact that you are on forum.talkingmachine.info, probably not.

MisterGramophone wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 9:28 am

AmberolaAndy wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 12:46 am

MisterGramophone wrote: Sat Jun 28, 2025 8:53 pm

Like, we want new collectors… but we don’t want the ones with severe millenialitis

I'm between the ages of 29 and 44 do I have it by default?

Based on the fact that you are on forum.talkingmachine.info, probably not.

I know, I was always considered a little bit different than most folks my age!

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