01-05-2005, 07:19 PM
Doc,Jan 5 2005, 01:14 PM Wrote:Reel to reel? BAH! I like my music on wax cylinders. You young punks have it made with your fancy electricity and motorized reels. I remember when you had to crank your old Victrola by hand.
I have some very very old Billie Holiday on wax.
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We have one room in my house devoted to the non-electric with a fireplace, hurricane lamps, and an old console victrola that my grandparents bought during the 20's(it seems my grandma was a flapper in her day). We go there and play board games and listen to old records when the power goes out, which in the stormy spring at times seems as frequent as many a third world nation. Over the years we have accumulated many hundreds of pounds of old victrola records that are bought at antique stores, much of it foxtrots, swing, and old classical stuff like Paganini and Caruso.