[78-L] Bad taste is timeless

[Philip Carli]

Examples of "Fairy" phonograph-lamps are in at least one, possibly two, of Tim Fabrizio and George Paul's books.  It's quite rare as much of it was made of pot metal and few examples ave survived intact; also, this was from the late teens-early 20s, and mains-current electric phono motors weren't generally reliable until the later 1920's, partially due to design problems and also due to lack of demand-compensating setups in city electric systems, which meant that house current fluctuated at various times.  They do play, not badly but not remarkably well as the sound exits the base.  They're amusing and ingenious (and a little bizarre) but not great instruments. PC
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From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] on behalf of David Lennick [dlennick at sympatico.ca]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 8:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Bad taste is timeless

I don't know where you're looking, but here's one that was listed a while back:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/FAIRY-PHONOGRAPH-LAMP-Endlessgraph-Mfg-Co-c-1920-/250853157912

dl

On 12/6/2012 7:55 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
> On 12/6/2012 3:00 PM, Mike Harkin wrote:
>>
>> --- On Thu, 12/6/12, Philip Carli<Philip_Carli at pittsford.monroe.edu>  wrote:
>>
>> From: Philip Carli<Philip_Carli at pittsford.monroe.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Bad taste is timeless
>> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Thursday, December 6, 2012, 8:23 PM
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>> Well, as both a record collector and a machine collector, it seems in no worse taste than the repertoires some glass-housed commentators collect (and which others would gleefully play on this machine with a rusty nail).  Be careful; chacun a son gout.  P. Carli
>>
>>
> This thing stinks of fraud. I cannot find any reference to this thing
> anywhere. And it can not really play records.
>

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