[78-L] Home disc recorder

[Dennis Flannigan]

Well, won't have to find the brand.

It is a Sentinel. Don, thank you. Some parts missing, or in a box nearby,
but glad to hear the brand isn't completely off the wall. When you have as
many records as many of us have, the desire to fiddle with recording a disc
flitters into mind once in a while.

I've decided to pass on the disc cutter, even as a curiosity (like the
portable hand crank player I have in the basement awaiting my getting it in
better working order  - it's bee there twenty years). I learned much, and
have retired from the home recording industry without a scratch.

Dennis


Could it have been a Sentinel?By the way,I recently acquired an old Midswest
radio/phono combination circa 1951(it has a three speed record changer).I
need to get a line on a replacement needle and/or cartridge for it.The last
time I saw a disc recorder was the old Packard Bell that was in the bandroom
of my alma mater,North Bend
High School in North Bend,Oregon.That was in 1970 and it still worked.There
were a couple of recordings that the high school band recorded some then 25
years ago.It disappeared sometime afterwords.I played tuba and
trumpet then.The name of the tune cut was the "Storm King" march which I
remember playhing then.I graduated in 1970s.Thanks for the memories.

From: Dennis Flannigan <dennis.flannigan at gmail.com>
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 11:10 AM
Subject: [78-L] Home 78 rpm disc Recorder

At a garage sale posing as a flea market there's a 78 rpm home recorder.
Wrote the brand on my hand and washed it off a couple of weeks ago. It has
one blank disc, and there it sits. Don't know whether it turns, works or
wobbles. Microphones seem to be missing (might have been two), and the brand
name starts with an "S." How's that for sketchy information.

Can such machines bee brought back to life? Anyone ever do it? Thoughts on
such foolishness welcome.

Dennis

PS Is it disc or disk?