MONTESANO — In Bob Carter’s private museum of phonographs and radios, shelves are crowded with the technology of the past. Glass vacuum tubes peek out from between wooden panels, burnished metal and ...

[smellsofbikes] recently came into possession of a 1970’s “stereo radio phonograph” cabinet consisting of a vinyl record player, AM and FM radio, and eight track tape player. The radio worked, the ...

WELLSBURG (AP) — Burdette Walters is known for his eclectic taste in antiques. He owns and operates the Friesian House Museum in his hometown of Wellsburg, population 700. He is a fan of early ...

Ed Fearing placed a shellac composite record on his 1905 Victor phonograph. He cranked the handle, and “Poet and Peasant Overture” began, at first a little slow and distorted, then quickly catching up ...

Just days ago, New York City removed the last of its once-ubiquitous pay phones. The old booth (actually more of a semi-cubicle) was to be taken to the Museum of the City of New York to be featured in ...

Rumors of new, improved methods of phonograph recording (on wire, film, etc.) have filled the wartime air. Last week one of the biggest U.S. recording companies, RCA Victor, said that, so far as its ...

DEAR ANNE AND NAN: My father-in-law gave me an original Edison Amberola, serial Number SM230371, complete with three boxes of the cylindrical records. I'm not sure when this was made, but the plate on ...

Everybody has a story, but sometimes you need the right media to hear it properly. Thanks to friendly offers from a couple of strangers — an Oregon record shop owner and a loyal Columbian subscriber — ...

Pandemic quarantine offered him an opportunity to reconnect with the old klezmer and Yiddish records in his collection, which he sampled and played guitar over to produce two albums. (JTA) — Folk ...