Re: Long Green Model A Home - A Treasure-trove!
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2020 2:31 pm
Hmm... I wonder if Steve Medved will work on it. The audio is a little crunchy too. I have a tea tray horn and a stand for it I bought from eBay last year, now I need a rubber connector for the Tea Tray horn. No searchlight horns yet!VanEpsFan1914 wrote:They're really harder to find than Edisons because they don't fall out as easily, and because Columbias were sold a lot in cities (where the cylinder phonograph was replaced quickly compared to the rural areas.)
I would say, tune it up & enjoy it; you wouldn't need a spare. They last forever & look great. Parts for Lyrics are very difficult to find--except for gaskets; it uses the same gaskets as an Edison Model C or H. If it loses a stylus, send it to one of the rebuilders for a new one. (Wyatt Markus just rotated some Edison styli for me...they work great! He's now answering an embarrassing amount of idiot questions about how to make the new linkage for the K. Apparently the K linkage was a little different. OK...so he tells me how to feed this thing with some new parts, which I may have to make from a pin instead of an office staple.)
I like the Vic II, the Home is a classic, and the BE is a good looking cylinder machine that you may wish to dress up someday with a larger horn. It'd be a good use for a 30" witch's hat or a H&S, Tea Tray, or Searchlight flower horn, in my unqualified opinion.
Here’s some photos of the lyric if anybody’s curious.