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

[Royal Pemberton]

Good question!  I'm not terribly sure one would.  As both stories came
from books, my hunch is this record may have been intended as a kind
of companion to the books.  Back when I first had the record, I owned
an G2 model Grafonola upright cabinet machine, and I carefully played
the record on it.  I don't recall hearing much of a difference in
intelligibility.

I do have a small Columbia portable model 110, and if you'd like, I
could play excerpts on it, record them with a microphone, and post
links to the clips, if you'd like to hear the difference.  Just let me
know.

On 2/25/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
> Royal Pemberton wrote:
>> I have the transfers of the May Murray record done.  As mentioned
>> before, the recording was not terribly clear, but I have tried to make
>> it as intelligible as possible with equalisation.
>>
>>
>
> Would a child really be able to understand the words of the record,
> especially on an acoustical machine in a classroom???
>> Tha catalogue number is actually S7505; labels state School Series and
>> further state Story Record/Kindergarten.  Transfers made at 78.26 rpm.
>>
>
> Did you hear the repeating clunk that was right in tempo with "La zy Ma
> ry, La zy Ma ry, La zy Ma ry . . . "  the first time the sequence
> happens halfway thru the record.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>> 'The story of busy Mary', from Milton Bradley Company's "Kindergarten
>> Review".  Matrix 36754-2:
>> http://www.box.net/shared/s6j92sfkaf
>>
>> 'The toyman's shop', from Milton Bradley Company's "More Mothers'
>> Stories".   Matrix 36755-2:
>> http://www.box.net/shared/um677yzu0j
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>>
>>
>> On 2/24/09, Ron L <lherault at bu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> My first encounter with an antique phonograph was in 1952, as a first
>>> grade
>>> student at St. Mary's School in North Attleborough, MA.   It was an
>>> upright
>>> Grafonola and ended up being the first machine acquired when I started
>>> collecting antique phonographs in 1961.  The school was built in '23 I
>>> believe.  I wonder if they ever had this book.
>>>
>>> Ron L
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 10:59 PM
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>>> Subject: [78-L] The Grafonola in the Classroom and Col A7505
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>
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