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Ahmed wrote: Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:14 am

kirtley2012 wrote: Sat Feb 06, 2021 8:29 am I wouldn't mind getting one of those cameraphones someday.

You're not missing very much, they all sound unsurprisingly atrocious.

With the arguable exception of the bigger cameraphones like the Columbia 100 (Cadet), the Russian sub-miniatures and the Pathé cameraphone. I have at least one example of each and they sound almost as good as an HMV 102.

I may have to correct my previous post, as I've just won a tatty 102 on ebay for 40 quid, SOMEONE TAKE EBAY AWAY FROM ME!!

So.... 1

you've just started!
At the beginning, I could only afford one portable, a cheap Diana model (I believe it's Italian). Many years later I acquired a very expensive Spanish Columbia 1940s portable, which costed a fortune, 390€ in 1995....! But it was the best ever sounding gramophone I've listened to, so I had to buy it. It was at a rural antique shop. Years later I swapped it for a Columbia 113a.
Some years later I bought the black 101. Then later a Thorens Ancora, another brown crocodile 101, the Brunswick Parisian, a black 102, and there I stopped... They're so charming...

This post may come as a general warning to collecting portable gramophones . Last summer I started to lose control over the number of my portables, after collecting portables for only one year. Since that time more and more portables have been added to the collection, most of them because they were good buys, some to be used as donor machines, while others were bought for saving them from oblivion understanding no one else in my area could ever repair them.

When visiting my storage locker last week I brought a female friend along with me, and well..she said politely" Martin, what about putting up shelves in your storage locker"? I knew of course she could not stand the look of the overcrowded locker, and well, it admittedly also for me had slowly become impossible to reach the inner corners of the locker, and of course also stacking portables are not a good option in the long run too.

Three days ago I put up shelves in parts of the locker, and as we can see, it has helped a lot, even if many portables still are stacked at the far end of the locker.

Before starting the process of putting up the shelves, I tried to reason how how many portables I now had in total, counting both the ones in the storage locker, my repair room at a friend's garage room, and also including the close to 20 portables that still is in my house. My guess was 40 before putting up the shelves. But oh no...it was not 40 portables...in total it was 72 !



...And two more cabinets, a HMV 145 and my G.A.M cabinet were added at the end of the locker, before the door was closed...

I've bought 21 portables in the past month alone. Not one of them has been cheap. Yes, I have a problem. Its called Ebay!

Steve wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 5:37 pm I've bought 21 portables in the past month alone. Not one of them has been cheap. Yes, I have a problem. Its called Ebay!

OK... It's time to get professional help.

Please click here for immediate help: http://www.bouldertherapist.com/html/hu ... ne%201.mp3

Curt A wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:01 pm
OK... It's time to get professional help.

Please click here for immediate help: http://www.bouldertherapist.com/html/hu ... ne%201.mp3

Curt A wrote: Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:01 pm
OK... It's time to get professional help.

Please click here for immediate help: http://www.bouldertherapist.com/html/hu ... ne%201.mp3

That's hilarious Curt.
Thanks for posting it.
I downloaded it and set it as a ring tone for the crazy people in my life

So far, all I have is the Edison P1...

I'm a portable pauper!

- Bill

Lucius1958 wrote: Fri Jul 09, 2021 9:13 pm So far, all I have is the Edison P1...

I'm a portable pauper!

- Bill

I have an Orchosol that I need to get to someday- maybe this winter.

For some reason, the little devil whispering in my left ear is coming close to overwhelming the little angel on my right and making me want an HMV or Continental equivalent in blue, green, and red.

Help?