[78-L] The Grafonola in the Classroom and Col A7505

[Michael Biel]

On a whim I shortened the search line to just Graphonola and found 
hundreds of ads in magazines and a few articles.  Try this.  Who had any 
idea that the ADS are indexed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Next try Victrola.  Got 
nothing of value to us from Aretino, though. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

Michael Biel wrote:
> Harold Aherne wrote:
>   
>> If anyone's interested, Google books now has available a 1920 Columbia 
>> catalogue aimed at schools for the sake of using Columbia discs to teach,
>> and not strictly the designated educational discs either (I think A300-A3173?).
>> It can be found at 
>>  
>> http://tinyurl.com/b57esr
>>
>> Of course, there's no Art Hickman, Nora Bayes, or Ted Lewis to be found in 
>> these pages, but there are a number of fascinating pictures and illustrations.
>>     
> This is a great service.  I have several editions of the Victor 
> educational books but never knew Columbia also did this.  The stuff late 
> in the book is interesting.  They have a page about using the 
> dictophone, and in the page about foreign language records they mention 
> the Cortina lessons which they pressed.  There is a page listing 
> Christmas records -- a subject of a long thread in December -- and then 
> have a page of foreign Christmas records followed by a page of Hebrew 
> records! 
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
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