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I had my first surge of Christmas spirit yesterday. I now have so many phonographs, music boxes, and Atwater Kent radios in my condo there is no room for a large Christmas tree anymore.

Do you suppose the ghost of Victor past will forgive me?

Clay

I've heard "Santa Claus hides in your phonograph" but yours has escaped!

epigramophone wrote:I've heard "Santa Claus hides in your phonograph" but yours has escaped!

I'd take the Credenza over a Christmas tree hands down.

Is our forum turning into a Walmart now???......Christmas in November??.... . Put Santa back in the Victrola....... .

Hey, anytime after Thanksgiving is fair game.

I think this might make a good thread. How do all of you work your collection into the holidays?

Clay

Sadly, I can't work my collection into the holidays, the holidays override the collection. Every year I have to move my Auxetophone out of the living room and park it in the middle of my home office for the duration, so that we have a space for the tree.

I expect that with the Auxetophone you can hear it all over the house anyhow! Maybe the whole neighborhood. A nice treasure to have.

Clay

TinfoilPhono wrote:Sadly, I can't work my collection into the holidays, the holidays override the collection. Every year I have to move my Auxetophone out of the living room and park it in the middle of my home office for the duration, so that we have a space for the tree.

Rene, you could always "trim" the Auxetophone... . We have the same problem. Have to move a jukebox for the tree... . Thank goodness it's only once a year.

The Southeast Chapter of the Musical Box Society International, of which I am a member, will be putting on a little "show and tell" exhibition at The Villages, Florida, (a planned retirement town of about 50,000 population) from the 19th to the 22nd of December. Part of what I will be doing to bring the holidays and the hobby together is that the I plan to go up for the first 2 days and take one of my phonographs and one of my table-top disc music boxes up to include in the show, along with some Christmas discs for the music box and records for the phonograph in view of the season. Other members of the Chapter will be bringing mechanical music items to demonstrate as well. A way, I hope, to expose new people to the hobby.

A model train show, sponsored by a different organization, will also be going on nearby at the same time.

And of course people dropping by my place during the holidays have to suffer through my sharing some of my machines. You never can tell when somebody else will catch that phonograph bug that way.

Clay