[Jukebox-list] Mechanical Music!!!

[Jackie]

Hi David,
thanks for the info, I have been to that site before.  I should have said 
"from the early 1900's", as mine was made in 1922.  It sounds like a new 
machine with the soundbox rebuilt, I just love it and the records I have are 
a "hoot"!
Jackie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Breneman" <david_breneman at yahoo.com>
To: "Jukebox mailing list" <jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] Mechanical Music!!!


>
>
> --- Jackie <etreble7 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Wow, this is so cool...........I have a Victrola from 1900, had the
>> needle cartridge rebuilt and rechromed and went to pick it up at
>> this guys house on the Chesapeake Bay last night.
>
> Jackie - Victor introduced the first Victrola in 1906.  There's a
> really good web resource on Victrolas,
> http://www.victor-victrola.com/
> and you can find out when your model was made there.  Earlier ones
> had a Victor Exhibition reproducer, later models had a Victrola
> Number 2 reproducer.  The Orthophonic Victrolas, introduced in 1925,
> were designed to play electrically-recorded records and the
> largest of those, the Credenza model, has spectacular sound
> quality for an accoustic machine.
>
>
> David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com
>
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