Shipwrecked phonograph from Yukon gold rush discovered

Post by **alang** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:40 am

Found this on one of the other forums and thought you might find it interesting:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/technolo ... story.html

Andreas

Post by **coyote** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:55 am

Thanks for posting this! One wonders: if they can identify the records, can they identify the phonograph?

dennis1 · Post by **dennis1** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:12 am

I only have about 10 Berliner records, but one of them is Spencer's "Ma Onliest One". Yeah, let's hear them play a copy of that record for today's public. That record is VERY racial!

Brad · Post by **Brad** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:28 am

coyote wrote:Thanks for posting this! One wonders: if they can identify the records, can they identify the phonograph?

Cool! I will be riding my bicycle along the AlCan highway through Whitehorse this summer and will stop at the museum and check it out. Hopefully it will be on display and I will see if I can get better pictures.

Post by **dennis** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:32 am

I only have about 10 Berliner records, but one of them is Spencer's Ma Onliest One. Right, let them play a copy of that record for today's PC public. That record is HIGHLY racial!

Amberola 1-A · Post by **Amberola 1-A** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:06 pm

Looks like it may be a Victor Royal?

Bill

Nat · Post by **Nat** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:56 pm

Fascinating! Our hobby makes its debut in archeology!

But if the ship sank in a storm, one has to doubt if they were playing records when it went down - you couldn't keep the needle in the groove!

Henry · Post by **Henry** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:44 pm

By the way, the Montreal Gazette got it wrong. In the Service poem it's Lake Lebarge, not Laberge. "...that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge, I cremated Sam McGee"). They'll probably get lots of letters to the editor on this one, including mine.

Amberola 1-A · Post by **Amberola 1-A** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:12 pm

Nat wrote: But if the ship sank in a storm, one has to doubt if they were playing records when it went down - you couldn't keep the needle in the groove!

Unless they were playing "The Sinking of the Titanic" or "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

Bill

Swing Band Heaven · Post by **Swing Band Heaven** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:17 pm

Its a while ago now...but I'm sure I am remembering correctly....didn't they retrieve phonograph records from the wreck of the Titanic? I am sure I remember news footage of them being shown off when they bought the first haul of "artifacts" up from the depths.

S-B-H

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