What I Brought Home....

[OrthoSean]

I actually bought this through here, and thanks to a fellow board member, I was able to have this picked up and brought to me at the Wayne show. This is such a cool machine, but a little bigger than I thought originally! I thought I'd put it in my dining room instead of an actual dining table, but it's a little on the large side. Still, I've been having a blast with it. It sounds much better than one would expect, and after a little tone arm adjusting (filing joints down, oil and patience) it even plays Pathés beautifully without "sticking"!

Sean

[richardh]

Now that looks like a really neat machine...and i've never seen a set up like that for holding various types and tones of needles. Excellent. I particularly like the way this phono pretents to be a table....what will they think of next!

To play Pathés I assume this machine has the adjustable tone arm so that vertical cut disks can be played? Nice score Sean

RJ

[richardh]

BTW..I meant to also ask..what date would this machine come from?

RJ

[OrthoSean]

I'm assuming late teens or early 20s. It has a rotating reproducer to play verticals. The neat thing is, if desired, when you close the lid, the leaf automatically raises itself to expose the horn!

Sean

[phonophan79]

Nice Sean! ...but what is it actually? Make/Model I mean... Wadell or something like that?

And will you actually be using it as a table?

[MordEth]

Sean,

Very nice. For anyone who missed it, this machine was seen in the Yankee Trader section here. I’d previously posted some information that I found on the company, and Matt had additional photos of it.

— MordEth

[coyote]

Sean: Thanks for posting pictures of the Waddell. Hopefully you use it occasionally as more than just a table! Glad it made the journey safely.

[OrthoSean]

Hopefully you use it occasionally as more than just a table!

No worries, it's too big to leave out in the middle of my DR, so I'm probably going to end up shuffling some machines around so I can place it under the window in there. It will double perfectly as a record-sorting table in that place (which is right next to my modern playback system). I plan on using this machine a lot. I spent a few more hours last night just listening to stuff on it. Good times!

Sean