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Do you give your phonographs names?
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:24 pm
by Cody K
Okay, I'm out on a limb here (as usual), but I really need to know...does anyone else give their phonographs names? I've got, among others, Carlos Credenza, Eldora and D'Zweet, and Chuck.
Am I...completely insane?
Re: Do you give your phonographs names?
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:28 pm
by De Soto Frank
I've
called some of them names... and not neccssarily the same one twice...
Re: Do you give your phonographs names?
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:57 pm
by Victrolacollector
Hmm.....I have called my Victrola's ...... Vicki
Maybe I should name my Magnola............. Maggie
My Pathé'.................................. Patty
Amberola 30................................ Amber
Edison Home................................ Homer
Columbia machine........................... Colleen
Re: Do you give your phonographs names?
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 3:02 am
by AZ*
Nope. I do not give my phonographs and gramophones names.
Re: Do you give your phonographs names?
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:22 am
by CarlosV
After posting my comment on boiling springs and baking them in the kitchen oven, naming gramophones sounds pretty tame to me. We are all naturally aware that collecting things is a mild form of insanity anyway...
But, no, I don't name my machines, nor I talk to them. I listen to what they tell me, though.
Re: Do you give your phonographs names?
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:34 am
by epigramophone
No I don't give my machines names. Most of them already have names inside their lids.
I don't even name my cars, but my wife christened my Armstrong Siddeley "Hissing Sid" after it blew a radiator hose in spectacular fashion, sending water and steam everywhere.
Re: Do you give your phonographs names?
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:53 am
by De Soto Frank
epigramophone wrote:No I don't give my machines names. Most of them already have names inside their lids.
I don't even name my cars, but my wife christened my Armstrong Siddeley "Hissing Sid" after it blew a radiator hose in spectacular fashion, sending water and steam everywhere.
Love it !
Re: Do you give your phonographs names?
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 9:38 am
by Dave
Oh i've called them plenty of names...mostly caused by frustration boiling up during adjustments and repairs! !#%$^&*#@@
Re: Do you give your phonographs names?
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 10:38 am
by rizbone
Dave wrote:Oh i've called them plenty of names...mostly caused by frustration boiling up during adjustments and repairs! !#%$^&*#@@
This exactly.
Re: Do you give your phonographs names?
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 10:43 am
by VintageTechnologies
No, I don't name my phonographs. I let them speak for themselves.