•Thomas Edison experimented with cement phonograph cases. Edison worked a great deal on Portland cement and prefab houses at one point. In one of the Edison books are pictures of a very elaborate and ornate statue model with an Amberola 30 mechanism inside. Edison also made a large disc machine that...

•> Thomas Edison experimented with cement phonograph cases. Edison > worked a great deal on Portland cement and prefab houses at one > point. In one of the Edison books are pictures of a very elaborate > and ornate statue model with an Amberola 30 mechanism inside. There's also a long tradition of c...

•I participate in a couple of the phonograph forums and occasionally the Saturday night chat room and find them very informative. The nicest attribute about the forums is that responses are received immediately and you can look through topics of discussion readily and easily. You can even post pictu...

•The first inquiry came to a phonograph board I'm on, along with a picture. The lid transfer prominently says SYMPHONION BREVETE PATENTED, so it's easy to see where the confusion started. Eric Stott Albany, New York

•Just a reminder -- the music box and phonograph swap meet in Danbury, Connecticut, is this Sunday, 17 June, from 7 A.M. to 3 P.M. It's at the Holiday Inn Danbury, at exit 8 (Newtown Road) off I-84. Hope to see some MMD-ers there! Nancy Fratti - Nancy Fratti Music Boxes Canastota, New York, USA http...

•Plan ahead: the huge 39th Annual Phonograph and Music Box Show and Sale in Union, Illinois, is coming up! Set aside June 14th and 15th for some good family fun (at the Donley's Wild West Town) while Mom & Dad shop for a new acquisition. I'll have _four_ booths there filled with music boxes and a fe...

•Lee Rothrock asked about whether tiny phonographs existed [210220 MMD]. I'm sure others know a lot more about the subject, but I once passed up the opportunity to buy a Peter Pan Gramophone, which was about the size of a 'box brownie' camera, so pretty small. Probably not what the hero used in the ...

Seth, Call Antique Phonograph Supply in NY, tel: 607-278-6218. They've got all the supplies for replacing your Victor reproducer gasket, and they're really nice folks, too! Jim Canavan

•I am in the process of restoring an Edison cylinder phonograph case and would appreciate any information concerning the removal of the old finish and the type of new finish that should be applied. The inside of the case is quite greasy and black. This is my first time refinishing such a case and an...

•Piano rolls, phonograph and cylinder recordings made in the early part of the twentieth century provide insight into the music styles enjoyed in that era. These recordings also give us an idea of the mores and beliefs of the time. Little has been said about the use of the phonograph as a tool for r...

•Every version I have of this tune on piano roll or phonograph record is played as a fox-trot. I've never heard it as a waltz. It's not one of my favorite tunes, by a long shot. John Rutoskey

•One musical alternative to a band organ in 1898 was a phonograph that was amplified by the Auxetophone ["Aux-e-to-phone"] or one of its relatives. This URL comes from Simeon Lapinbleau, a master of darned near everything in Britain, who referred it to my howthingswork discussion group: http://www.d...

•I once saw a late model Edison home phonograph with a seized up mandrel bearing which had been dipped several times in polyurethane varnish in its' entirety, even the motor and reproducer. It surfaced at several antique shows here in Syracuse after which it submerged, never to be seen again. Taking...

•Here's an interesting quotation from the 1910 Edison phonograph catalog for those of us who love player pianos but may have missed its shortcomings: "The Amberola (Edison's top-of-the-line phonograph) has cabinetry even more charmingly designed than a piano's, it does not require a lifetime of stud...

•I am a new subscriber to MMDigest and have been a phonograph and music box collector for quite a while. I am presently working on a Paillard Interchangeable cylinder music box but sadly it came with only one (1) cylinder. I am hoping that someone out there has an orphan cylinder that needs a good h...

•Just a reminder to everyone that there are _two_ phonograph & music box swap meets coming up in June: (1) June 9-10th at Donley's Wild West Town in Union, Illinois, and (2) June 17th (one day only, Sunday) at the Holiday Inn in Danbury, Connecticut. Both are super easy to get to, off major intersta...

•Heads Up! The Phonograph & Music Box Swap Meet in Union, Illinois, is coming up quickly (June 9-10th)! Along with many of the 70+ boxes we just picked up, I'll have copies of most of the MBSGB's books with me: The Disc Musical Box, The Nicole Factor, Tune Sheets and The Organette. Save the postage...

•This is for those subscribers who are into phonographs and Gramophones. Many of you would recognise an EMG if you saw it. They were hand made in the UK and usually had very large (up to 34 inches in diameter) papier mache horns. Well, a Mr. James has written a book on the subject, with 144 pages an...

•These kinds of things are on eBay constantly: look under "phonographs" and on any given day there are dozens of what we phono collectors refer to as "crap-o-phones" -- fake outside-horn phonographs, patched together in India. Some sellers are honest, and say that they are selling a reproduction (an...

•I also collect and restore Capehart record flipping phonographs and I wonder if anyone has detailed information of how the Capehart was controlled by the Ampico B Ampichron clock. Capehart phonographs were available with an optional, elaborate remote control option so they could be controlled throu...