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What are your least used machines for playing:

I listed in order.

Cylinder: Columbia Q, Columbia B, Columbia BK (The Q and B, are great shelf sitters but lack power, audio quality and occasionally skip)
Disc: Polly Portable, VV-IV, VV-VI, VV 1-70 (The Polly is fun to look at, the arm is heavy, and the motor is not that robust). My Victrola VV-IV and VV-VI both are early models and so I
I don't want to break the motors as they are the early.

Pathéphone VII. Could never get the motor to run evenly.

Graphophone Type "N"; for fear of damaging it.

Best,
Fran

Busy Bee Cylinder machine

Dan

My Pathé model III table top, which I only use to play vertical cut Pathé discs.

Columbia AP - the model without any feed screw. And my worthless Puck

Victor R - fiber gear is missing a tooth!
Columbia Q and B - nice to look at, ok to touch, but to listen, not so much
Edison Gem (branded case) - no amount of Medved Massage could make the weird little reproducer sound good

My Regina Hexaphone Model 103.

Rich Gordon

My Puck. Every time I want to play it the cats have messed up the string

Andreas

Least played? The ones that are buried by other phonographs. Seems most of my floor models have become pedestals for my horn machines.