Maurice wrote: Thu Nov 23, 2023 4:10 pm

seby wrote: Thu Nov 23, 2023 2:42 am Tadaaaaaaa...look I made a podcast : )

It is on apple and spotty:

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/s ... 1717201779

Congrats, Seby! Gonna note the apple link for later!

Wood Goblin wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 9:11 am My uncle, who I was extremely close to, died over the summer. Yesterday, one of my cousins hosted Thanksgiving—the first without my uncle. It was lovely and nice.

My cousin had all of my uncle’s old records and 78s and said we should take anything that interested us. We didn’t want to be greedy, as he and a few of my nieces grew up listening to my uncle’s musical theater records. (Think Rogers and Hammerstein, not Andrew Lloyd Webber.) So we only took five or six LPs plus maybe 15 78s. All of the 78s need a thorough cleaning, and none of them are collectible, but we did get some by Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, and Frank Sinatra, plus Judy Garland singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”

At some point, we’ll need to buy something to play them on. The challenge will be finding room for an old phonograph.

seby wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 5:23 pm

Wood Goblin wrote: Fri Nov 24, 2023 9:11 am My uncle, who I was extremely close to, died over the summer. Yesterday, one of my cousins hosted Thanksgiving—the first without my uncle. It was lovely and nice.

My cousin had all of my uncle’s old records and 78s and said we should take anything that interested us. We didn’t want to be greedy, as he and a few of my nieces grew up listening to my uncle’s musical theater records. (Think Rogers and Hammerstein, not Andrew Lloyd Webber.) So we only took five or six LPs plus maybe 15 78s. All of the 78s need a thorough cleaning, and none of them are collectible, but we did get some by Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, and Frank Sinatra, plus Judy Garland singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”

At some point, we’ll need to buy something to play them on. The challenge will be finding room for an old phonograph.

Hiya Wood Goblin,

I am so sorry about your uncle. He sounds like a solid guy.

For the 78s, plenty of dj decks (vestal etc.) have a 78 function. Smaller than a phonograph.

Wood Goblin wrote: Sat Nov 25, 2023 10:56 am Thanks, both of you. He really was a great guy, a bonus grandad for our kids.

I’ll probably just hold off on a player for the 78s, until I have space for the thing I really want—an antique phonograph with a horn.