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Can anyone tell me what would fit on this cabinet? It measures 18 ½ By 15 inches inside the trim. My Amberola 50 just can't quite make it by a small bit. I was thinking of removing the little quarter round trim and it would set down in there. But I don't know if I want to do that and mess the little thing up. What do you guys think?

Sweet Jesus, don't cut the trim to make the wrong machine fit! If you can get the correct machine that will fit that's great. If not, sell it to someone who has one. The cabinet is just to fine to screw up.

So trim the Amberola!

Seriously, you could cut a piece of wood for a spacer, sized to fit into the top of your cabinet. It would just lay in there, flush with the top of the trim, IOW no cabinet mod needed. Then just place the Amberola on top of that. The wood spacer could be as simple as five smaller squares, one for each corner and one centered under the Amberola. A more elaborate solution would be a tray to lay into the cabinet top with edges trimmed out in oak to match the cabinet, and into which the Amberola would fit in turn.

Like the previous poster said, please don't anything to that nice cabinet!

Henry wrote:So trim the Amberola!

Seriously, you could cut a piece of wood for a spacer, sized to fit into the top of your cabinet. It would just lay in there, flush with the top of the trim, IOW no cabinet mod needed. Then just place the Amberola on top of that. The wood spacer could be as simple as five smaller squares, one for each corner and one centered under the Amberola. A more elaborate solution would be a tray to lay into the cabinet top with edges trimmed out in oak to match the cabinet, and into which the Amberola would fit in turn.

Like the previous poster said, please don't anything to that nice cabinet!

This is why I asked, I don't want to mess the little guy up either. I hadn't thought about removing the bottom trim on the Amberola? It being oak, and a lot of Amberolas are oak, what would fit in that space? Could it have been for a horn machine? If I can't use it, look for it in the Trader section. I can just cut a couple pieces of wood 18 by 15 and set the 50 on top?

It looks like there is a needle tray mounted to the door, so it is probably a disc record cabinet. My rear mount Zonophone Concert Grand is 15" wide, so it would fit, as would probably any number of table top disc machines.

Andreas

I suspect it received an internal horn disk machine (large rectangle). For whatever reason I also suspect it might have been Columbia but I cannot suggest a model as I am unfamiliar with the dimensions of their product line. I would check Columbia catalogs around 1916 for appropraite sized machines - the 1916 suggestion is just a guess! John

It appears deeper than wide. I'd guess something like a VV-VIII. Jerry Blais

Jerry B. wrote:It appears deeper than wide. I'd guess something like a VV-VIII. Jerry Blais

That's what I thought, but don't have one to measure? If someone could measure theirs, then we will know.

I have this same cabinet. It is for a Victrola VIII. Keep it as is. VV VIIIs are scarce machines, and the matching cabinet is even more scarce.
Harvey Kravitz

Dang, I was and did sell most of my stuff and here I go again? Now I have to find a Victor 8. I got this last week for nothing along with the cabinet.