Just signed on....
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 9:21 pm
from beautiful Fairbanks, Alaska! I have been involved with tube radio restoration for some time now and have been signed on to a radio related site for a few years now. Also do vintage audio so got a place to go to there too. Have a rather sizable collection of 78rpm records so record collectors website is on the list.
Anyway, just got done with what I have been told is a Brunswick Panatrope portable player and am able to play what amounts to about 100 records that seem to date to before 1926-27. So I found this place after a Google search and just want to say hello.
Someone just gave me a "Gypsy" brand portable player manufactured by Caswell Manufacturing Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It has on it a tonearm and Oro-Phone reproducer made by The Orotone Company of Chicago. As with the Brunswick, it looks like a little bit of clean-up and lubrication will bring this one back to life.
I have had some limited success in finding info about these 2 players, so if anyone could maybe fill me in on what I have I sure would appreciate it! Thanks
I will try and post photos in the next few days once I get used to being around this site.
Anyway, just got done with what I have been told is a Brunswick Panatrope portable player and am able to play what amounts to about 100 records that seem to date to before 1926-27. So I found this place after a Google search and just want to say hello.
Someone just gave me a "Gypsy" brand portable player manufactured by Caswell Manufacturing Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It has on it a tonearm and Oro-Phone reproducer made by The Orotone Company of Chicago. As with the Brunswick, it looks like a little bit of clean-up and lubrication will bring this one back to life.
I have had some limited success in finding info about these 2 players, so if anyone could maybe fill me in on what I have I sure would appreciate it! Thanks
I will try and post photos in the next few days once I get used to being around this site.
