Anybody Knowledgeable on Music Boxes?
reichsrundfunk
I know this group is intended primarily for radio and phono postings,
however I can't cant seem to find a better group to post this! I:
have inherited a lovely solid oak (quarter sawn) music box ca. 1895
and was wondering if anyone have knowledge of them that might be
willing to take a look at some photos of it and tell me who made it,
and any other information! It is large, about 29" wide x 12" deep x
8" high. It plays 12 tunes, is cran k wound from the right side, and
the metal baseplate of the machanism reads " USA Patent Sept. 25,
1894" I' m happy to e-mail photos of it to anyone who can take a look
and give some info on it. You can e-mail me at: george-
shi...@msn.com.
Many thanks! George
IGot2P
Point your browser to http://www.mechantiques.com/ and then click on
"disc music boxes" or "cylinder music boxes" depending upon what you
have. You might get lucky and recognize if from on of the pictures.
Don
IGot2P
Bill Burns
> Hi All,
>
> I know this group is intended primarily for radio and phono
> postings, however I can't cant seem to find a better group to post
> this!
The group's charter includes music boxes (I'm a founding member -
fifeen years since the group was created!), but you'd probably do
better to post a question at Mechanical Music Digest:
--
Bill Burns, Long Island, NY, USA
mailto:bi...@ftldesign.com
History of Technology Websites:
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John Byrns
Bill Burns <bi...@ftldesign.com> wrote:
> reichsrundfunk wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I know this group is intended primarily for radio and phono
> > postings, however I can't cant seem to find a better group to post
> > this!
>
> The group's charter includes music boxes (I'm a founding member -
> fifeen years since the group was created!), but you'd probably do
> better to post a question at Mechanical Music Digest:
>
> http://www.mmdigest.com/
"The group's charter includes music boxes"!? I can't find any mention
of music boxes in the charter, which I have reproduced below, unless you
are referring to the "other similarly-related items" clause? (I'm a
founding member of the group which was created in September 1994!)
Personally I wouldn't mind seeing discussions of music boxes in this
group, I just think it is really stretching the charter to say it
includes music boxes.
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CHARTER
Discussion of the use, repair, and collecting of early standard-broadcast
radios, phonographs, and any other similarly-related items designed for
home
entertainment sound receiving or sound reproduction.
This group is intended to be a forum for those with an interest
in sound-receiving and sound-reproduction equipment that was generally
manufactured prior to the widespread use of transistors. The group's
discussion, however, will not be strictly limited to vacuum-tube and
mechanical devices, and those with an interest in early transistor
radios,
early televisions, and other such items that reflect pioneering audio
technology will be welcomed.
Exclusions:
Amateur radio equipment discussion will be directed to the existing
amateur
radio newsgroups and to the boatanchors list. This is only done because
those groups present an established forum for people with an interest in
classic amateur radio equipment. Those classic amateur radio collectors
who
also share an interest in early standard-broadcast equipment will fully
appreciate the desire to separate the two interests. Their valuable
expertise will, however, be most welcome in all forums.
==========
--
Regards,
John Byrns
Surf my web pages at, http://fmamradios.com/
HankVC
who wrote up that group charter statement, but I have a nagging
feeling that I'm the guilty party.
Flash back to 1994. The momentum behind setting up a specific
newsgroup was to get it away from the kitsch collectors in rec.antiques
and have a group to discuss home entertainment high-tech from
"yesteryear"----roughly pre-1964 (30 years before 1994). That, of
course, includes acoustic phonographs, but does not exclude things
like music boxes, electronic organs, and a whole long list of other
things. The rec.antiques people were objecting to the steady stream
of tech-talk going on.
At the same time we did not want to exclude clockwork-type mechanisms
not related to acoustic phonographs. Whether there's much knowledge
of things like music boxes among the current newsgroup readership or
not, there are some interesting devices that were sold ca. 1870-1910
that weren't phonographic or radio. Also such things as the Hammond
Organ and Everett Orgatron---mechanical and electronic all in one box.
There was some thought given to establishing a line between amateur
"ham" radio, whose interests in old electronics were being well-served
by mail lists and news groups, generally under the term "boatanchors"
used by hams to identify vacuum tube electronics. Flash forward
fifteen years, and I don't think this group needs to feel so
arms-length about ancient amateur radio stuff.
Hank
D. Peter Maus
Thanks for the clarification, Hank.
Interesting discussion about what is and is not 'on-topic', but
not to be a nitpicker, here, but does anyone actually know what
specific issue the OP was intending to ask about? That may, at
least, help direct the discussion to a venue.
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