The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

first to post here ig? just noticed it

We're all young collectors at heart

Any new or young collectors live near the Edison Museum in West Orange NJ?

I think that this could be a very interesting section as I am interested in the reasons why 'young people' collect old gramophones and listen to old 78 records.

They may quite possibly have very different perspective than I have ?

A lot of young people are introduced to this music through games. Most that I know don't actually get hooked from a relative having them.

I remember Mysterious Mose being popular on YouTube Shorts and of course the Ink Spots "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" was in the game Fallout 3.

Great section. Wish I had this when I started collecting 78s in 2008 or machines in 2016.

Here's a silly question from a newbie. What's the difference between the outbox and the sent box in private messages. I've never received a reply to any of the messages in my outbox.

shopdoc wrote: Sun Nov 16, 2025 9:42 pm Here's a silly question from a newbie. What's the difference between the outbox and the sent box in private messages. I've never received a reply to any of the messages in my outbox.

That's exactly what it is. The outbox is for messages you've sent but haven't received a reply to yet, when a reply it received, they will be moved to the sent box.

m_nakamura wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 8:30 am

shopdoc wrote: Sun Nov 16, 2025 9:42 pm Here's a silly question from a newbie. What's the difference between the outbox and the sent box in private messages. I've never received a reply to any of the messages in my outbox.

That's exactly what it is. The outbox is for messages you've sent but haven't received a reply to yet, when a reply it received, they will be moved to the sent box.

Actually, the Outbox has messages that haven't been read yet. Once the message has been opened, it goes to Sent. (Nothing to do with replies.)

Although this new category was created for the young to contribute, and I hope they do, some of us elder statesmen cannot resist the temptation to reminisce about the old days of our hobby.
When I started collecting as a schoolboy in the late 1950's (yes I am THAT old) many machines and records were still in the possession of their original owners who, once they had updated to radiograms and LP's, were often glad to give them to a keen youngster rather than see them literally thrown away.
Because most items had little or no monetary value, junk shops, jumble sales, house clearances and local small ads were our hunting grounds. My youngest brother bought an HMV130 for ten shillings (50P) at a jumble sale, which he then sold to me for £1 and thought he had made a killing.
Some shops still sold 78's and needles. I even bought an unused old stock HMV102D in an Army Surplus shop for £5, one of a batch ordered by the Ministry of Supply (now part of the Ministry of Defence) to entertain the troops.
There were few if any textbooks devoted to the hobby and few if any specialist dealers or repairers. The Internet had not even been dreamed of. If only I could revisit those days with the knowledge I have now, what a collection I could build.