The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

Orchorsol wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 2:09 pm I really thought I'd posted in this thread, but apparently not!

I was obsessed with records, record players and gramophones as a toddler and have been ever since. Whenever we visited other families' houses, they were the first thing I wanted to know about and seek out - I can remember two horned gramophones, one in a beautiful house full of antiques and the other a near-wreck in a derelict farm building we children used to play records on. I was buying 78s from the local junk shop from the age of 5 or 6. When I was 7 someone gave me an electrical gramophone which still worked - although sparks were sometimes visible inside the cabinet! I think it may have been a Volmar, and had a Garrard turntable with the autochange spindle missing.

Just a week ago with both my brothers visiting and looking through old slides of my father's I found this long lost photo.

I also posted about my grandparent's HMV 111 which I still have and treasure: viewtopic.php?t=11979 Sadly the photos are now missing. I'll try and remember to upload new ones.

m_nakamura wrote: Tue Sep 09, 2025 12:03 pm Old post.

My first phonograph was from my grandmother, but it belong to her grandmother (my great-great grandmother). I was 11 years old when I first saw it back in 2021, still living in Osaka. My great-grandmother (aged 99 at the time), told me all about listening to it as a child in the early-1930's. I asked if her if I could listen to it, she told me "It's broken. No bother." Fast-forward to around 2023/24, my great-grandmother and all her belongings were moved to the US for EOL care. I have a friend who was in my 9th grade Biology class, always talking about phonographs and records. Eventually I asked him to take a look at our broken J1-95, he replaced a couple things in the motor and it came back to life. I had never seen my great-grandmother so happy, so I cherish phonographs as a hobby greatly.

Dischoard wrote: Thu Oct 23, 2025 5:15 pm

m_nakamura wrote: Tue Sep 09, 2025 12:03 pm Old post.

My first phonograph was from my grandmother, but it belong to her grandmother (my great-great grandmother). I was 11 years old when I first saw it back in 2021, still living in Osaka. My great-grandmother (aged 99 at the time), told me all about listening to it as a child in the early-1930's. I asked if her if I could listen to it, she told me "It's broken. No bother." Fast-forward to around 2023/24, my great-grandmother and all her belongings were moved to the US for EOL care. I have a friend who was in my 9th grade Biology class, always talking about phonographs and records. Eventually I asked him to take a look at our broken J1-95, he replaced a couple things in the motor and it came back to life. I had never seen my great-grandmother so happy, so I cherish phonographs as a hobby greatly.

You have quite the knack for reviving old posts! I love it though, there's no reason for some of these to pass into oblivion...