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Record cabinet or music cabinet
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Record cabinet or music cabinet
This is listed as a record cabinet but looks more like a sheet music cabinet to me. What do you think?
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De Soto Frank
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Re: Record cabinet or music cabinet
sheet music for certain. I've seen one with labels engraved right on the drawers: SONGS, MARCHES, QUADRILLES, SACRED. Etc. Etc.
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Re: Record cabinet or music cabinet
I don't know. Will be looking at it tomorrow. I thought sheet music but it does have supports for when the drawers are pulled out like a cylinder cabinet.De Soto Frank wrote:How much clearance between the drawers ?
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Re: Record cabinet or music cabinet
This is strange, but I actually found one very similar to the one you pictured. It appeared from the outside to be a fancy record cabinet, but inside had these exact same drawers and was gilded and had scenes painted on the doors. They both appear to be made by Herzog, since the automatic door mechanism is the same as in their record cabinets. I came to the conclusion that the one I looked at was a sheet music cabinet...
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Re: Record cabinet or music cabinet
I'll take a cylinder box with me tomorrow and see if it fits.Curt A wrote:This is strange, but I actually found one very similar to the one you pictured. It appeared from the outside to be a fancy record cabinet, but inside had these exact same drawers and was gilded and had scenes painted on the doors. They both appear to be made by Herzog, since the automatic door mechanism is the same as in their record cabinets. I came to the conclusion that the one I looked at was a sheet music cabinet...
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Re: Record cabinet or music cabinet
I think it is a sheet music cabinet. The drawers look to shallow to be for cylinders. Also, from my experience with seeing these cabinets, it would be hard to place and remove disk records. Sheet music is flexible, so it will be easy to place and remove from the drawers.
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