![]() I do have quite a few at my parents’ house and in my basement. I don’t keep too many phonographs in the main living areas of my house because of pets and kids and the potential for damage. A few weeks ago, I was in my storage area with a friend and saw some stuff that I had completely forgotten about. I’d say I have a hundred phonographs, plus or minus 10 percent. When you turn on the radio, you get punk and everything else now. I also used to collect old radios, but lost interest in that because what you play on them isn’t old stuff. ![]() I’ve gone through different phases in life where I didn’t do much with phonographs in college and when I got married and started a family. It just was fascinating to get music out of such a crude, mechanical-type system. I’d always been into music from the 1930s and ’40s, because my parents played it at home so much, but then I got this thing working. One day I was messing around and opened it up and started playing with it. It was a 1917 – my grandfather bought it right before World War I. When I was around 10, my grandfather passed away, and my dad brought home his Victrola and stuck it under the stairs in the basement. I pretty much nailed the date for 188018, but missed the other one by 5 months (probably a math error).Victor III, originally “Victor M” (Monarch) model in 1901. Martinola wrote:George beat me to the punch. And a fun time was had by all.įYI: here's a link for the latest data sheet. Next divide number of machines (16045) by the monthly production number (5708) and you'll get months elapsed (2.8). Next take your serial number 188018 and subtract the first known serial number (188018-171973= 16045) and this will give you the machines produced from the first known date. (12) divide machines produced by number of months (68503 divided by 12= 5708) and that will give you your monthly production. Subtract the serial numbers between the two to get the total number machines produced (68503). (Example: New style case introduced in November 1901.)įind a serial number before your target that has a date. It takes about 10 minutes or so because you'll have to scan the notes for known dates (courtesy George P.)or you'll have to look for feature changes that go with known dates. Tom - if you would like to try your hand at guesstimating, it can be done using the Standard Data sheet. I pretty much nailed the date for 188018, but missed the other one by 5 months (probably a math error). ![]()
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