℞: One Phonograph...
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 11:03 pm
So: I drove up to Hartford today for an appointment with my therapist.
Shortly after I sat down, he said, "I've got something for you." From out of a closet he brought a cardboard box, from which I could see peeping some cylinder boxes, a dusty lid, and the tarnished bell of a horn.
It turned out to be a Standard B with ICS attachments.
When I got it home and dusted it off, it looked to be in very good original shape: under the lid was a nice clean bedplate with nearly perfect striping, upper works with shiny nickel, the requisite speed control and repeater, and a Model C reproducer with pristine stylus. Also in the box were the original horn (slightly bent in the bell, but with good paint and brass), 15 wax cylinders, most of them in V+/E condition (of which 5 were language lessons), and a set of ICS lesson books.
Barring any problems with the mainspring (it had spent the better part of a century wound up: but when I released the brake, it purred on for a good number of minutes), all it will need is cleaning and lubrication, a new belt, and gaskets for the reproducer.
Here are the photos in "as found" condition, plus a selection of the musical titles:
Bill
Shortly after I sat down, he said, "I've got something for you." From out of a closet he brought a cardboard box, from which I could see peeping some cylinder boxes, a dusty lid, and the tarnished bell of a horn.
It turned out to be a Standard B with ICS attachments.
When I got it home and dusted it off, it looked to be in very good original shape: under the lid was a nice clean bedplate with nearly perfect striping, upper works with shiny nickel, the requisite speed control and repeater, and a Model C reproducer with pristine stylus. Also in the box were the original horn (slightly bent in the bell, but with good paint and brass), 15 wax cylinders, most of them in V+/E condition (of which 5 were language lessons), and a set of ICS lesson books.
Barring any problems with the mainspring (it had spent the better part of a century wound up: but when I released the brake, it purred on for a good number of minutes), all it will need is cleaning and lubrication, a new belt, and gaskets for the reproducer.
Here are the photos in "as found" condition, plus a selection of the musical titles:
Bill
- Photo on 2-10-15 at 5.20 PM.jpg (198.49 KiB) Viewed 2091 times
