https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2UMBVtr1Os
Black cats and eerie music included.
Dress Up Your Gramophone for a Horror Movie
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Re: Dress Up Your Gramophone for a Horror Movie
Poor thing: it was a perfectly good Columbia (BH?), in nice original condition...

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Re: Dress Up Your Gramophone for a Horror Movie
On the plus side, she uses a new needle for each side of a record. Jerry B.
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Re: Dress Up Your Gramophone for a Horror Movie
Eh, it’s not ugly. (To me) Could be worse.
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Re: Dress Up Your Gramophone for a Horror Movie
"It's my gramophone, I can do with it what I like, it's my right."
The scary thing is putting a dollar value and (questionable) personal taste over respect for history.
The scary thing is putting a dollar value and (questionable) personal taste over respect for history.
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Re: Dress Up Your Gramophone for a Horror Movie
I think she's quite crafty. Not my taste of color selection, but that pedestal she made was pretty cool
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Re: Dress Up Your Gramophone for a Horror Movie
The Gramophone - From the Mind of Christine McConnell... If a purple horn and purple felt (in place of the good condition original green felt) is your thing, then it's not as bad as it could have been... Actually, the idea of making the "pedestal" to place it on is an interesting idea... I have never heard of anyone using Mod Podge to glue wood together or to glue felt on a turntable, though...
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Re: Dress Up Your Gramophone for a Horror Movie
I have to commend her for carefully preserving the felt and for being aware that someone may want to bring the machine back to it’s original appearance at some time. The horn that she stripped looked to be in good, original condition, but it was not rare or pristine. The work was carefully done and she seemed to have a love and respect for these machines. If she had stripped the cabinet and painted it, that would have been a shame, but she seemed to be very respectful of the future preservation of the machine while at the same time, making it suit her needs. She also educates the public and maybe gets someone else interested, so I have no issue with what she did and I think that she is very talented. Speaking only for myself, it is a tasteful, hot-rod restoration that is mostly reversible.
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Hers is a true labour of love. And it looks very nice!
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Re: Dress Up Your Gramophone for a Horror Movie
She's good in preparing a yummy picnic as well, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0QtdYwrnkg
Gramophone included, and Henry Hall's Teddy Bear Picnic as background music.
Gramophone included, and Henry Hall's Teddy Bear Picnic as background music.