01-04-2010, 10:31 PM
Hey,
My grandmother has an, apparently, working radio/phonograph/ lp recorder cabinet that she's had since she was a kid. since I do some recording work and mentioned that I'd like to try and record something using that medium (i've done a little work with some wire recordings, but mostly I'm familiar with 4 and 8 track cassette & reel to reels), she's letting me use it to try and record.
In anycase, I've only seen the cabinet (which is the size of a fairly large chest of drawer, if memory serves) several times the last of which was a few years ago, and since it's in her basement and she's not very mobile, (and I'm several states away and can't check for myself) she's unable to tell me anything other than that she's pretty sure it's a Philco. (no model number etc.)
anyways, I'll be visiting home in a few months and want to try to have as much information on it as possible, so I can work efficiently and care for it correctly, and have some idea of what I may need to do any minor repairs in the relatively short time I have to use it since I haven't worked with equipment like this before... but the only thing I seem to have found on like referencing a philco model that was also able to record was on this forum here:
http://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthread.php?tid=1946
if any of you has any information on a model # (or, hope springs eternal, something akin to a manual) or any other information that would point me in the right direction to be able to do this that would be greatly appreciated! (and maybe point me in the direction of a good vendor of Blank cardboard discs etc.? I know she has some blank ones still, but I'd like to try and have some room for recording trial and error as I learn it's capacities)
I apologize if the information is easily available and I just missed it somehow, but I've been searching for a while now and have come up pretty empty handed...
My grandmother has an, apparently, working radio/phonograph/ lp recorder cabinet that she's had since she was a kid. since I do some recording work and mentioned that I'd like to try and record something using that medium (i've done a little work with some wire recordings, but mostly I'm familiar with 4 and 8 track cassette & reel to reels), she's letting me use it to try and record.
In anycase, I've only seen the cabinet (which is the size of a fairly large chest of drawer, if memory serves) several times the last of which was a few years ago, and since it's in her basement and she's not very mobile, (and I'm several states away and can't check for myself) she's unable to tell me anything other than that she's pretty sure it's a Philco. (no model number etc.)
anyways, I'll be visiting home in a few months and want to try to have as much information on it as possible, so I can work efficiently and care for it correctly, and have some idea of what I may need to do any minor repairs in the relatively short time I have to use it since I haven't worked with equipment like this before... but the only thing I seem to have found on like referencing a philco model that was also able to record was on this forum here:
http://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthread.php?tid=1946
if any of you has any information on a model # (or, hope springs eternal, something akin to a manual) or any other information that would point me in the right direction to be able to do this that would be greatly appreciated! (and maybe point me in the direction of a good vendor of Blank cardboard discs etc.? I know she has some blank ones still, but I'd like to try and have some room for recording trial and error as I learn it's capacities)
I apologize if the information is easily available and I just missed it somehow, but I've been searching for a while now and have come up pretty empty handed...
