That was a very expensive music player back in the day equivalent to $750 of today's dollars which didn't even have a radio. Make that maybe $850 since the video was made 3 years ago. It must had been a very classy trendy thing to have back in the day as a conversation piece. I would guess about $11 at 28 cents an hour would had been a full time workers average weekly pay back then. I could not have ever imagined this was as expensive back then until you said the price and I looked up how low wages really were before the world wars. It was the post WW2 era that really lifted boats and advanced technology along that allowed most to not only afford a music box, but also a house, car, TV, and kids. My grandpa raised a family on one job from the 50's to the 70's, owned a house, two cars, a color TV, and still had plenty at the end though was only a factory line worker.
Correct. According to an inflation calculator: today's prices in 2019 are 2,493.53% higher than average prices throughout 1913. The dollar experienced an average inflation rate of 3.12% per year during this period, meaning the real value of a dollar decreased. In other words, $30 in 1913 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $778.06 in 2019, a difference of $748.06 over 106 years. At the time, the Amberola 30 was $30 , the 50 was $50 etc...
The 'Amberola' Phonograph was introduced in 1909. The first machines were very expensive floor models, but soon Edison produced cheaper table models, many using surplus parts from the outside horn machines, with mixed results (the Amberola V was a rare exception). The December, 1914 fire at the Phonograph Works destroyed most of the old stock: this cleared the way for a total redesign of machines in 1915, particularly the Amberola 30, 50, and 75. By this time, though, cylinder Phonographs were less popular: Edison discontinued direct recording of cylinders, switching instead to dubbing from disc masters. You can hear the decline of sound quality in many of these later Blue Amberols.
Unless it has 2 gears, no, however the 4 minute black wax ones should play, the reason the 2 minute ones cant is due to the less tight threads on the feed gear.
Sounds like Billy Murray to me. Fred Fisher was the composer. Also looks like the stylus made contact with the record before the drop lever was actuated!😮😮
My Dad and I are experiencing the same issue. I believe that the little screw with the nut needs to be adjusted so that the stylus part of the reproducer goes higher when the lift and lower lever is raised. Is there something else to this?
IS THIS WILLY 'COSBY' ??
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That was a very expensive music player back in the day equivalent to $750 of today's dollars which didn't even have a radio. Make that maybe $850 since the video was made 3 years ago. It must had been a very classy trendy thing to have back in the day as a conversation piece. I would guess about $11 at 28 cents an hour would had been a full time workers average weekly pay back then. I could not have ever imagined this was as expensive back then until you said the price and I looked up how low wages really were before the world wars. It was the post WW2 era that really lifted boats and advanced technology along that allowed most to not only afford a music box, but also a house, car, TV, and kids. My grandpa raised a family on one job from the 50's to the 70's, owned a house, two cars, a color TV, and still had plenty at the end though was only a factory line worker.
Correct. According to an inflation calculator: today's prices in 2019 are 2,493.53% higher than average prices throughout 1913. The dollar experienced an average inflation rate of 3.12% per year during this period, meaning the real value of a dollar decreased.
In other words, $30 in 1913 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $778.06 in 2019, a difference of $748.06 over 106 years.
At the time, the Amberola 30 was $30 , the 50 was $50 etc...
The 'Amberola' Phonograph was introduced in 1909. The first machines were very expensive floor models, but soon Edison produced cheaper table models, many using surplus parts from the outside horn machines, with mixed results (the Amberola V was a rare exception). The December, 1914 fire at the Phonograph Works destroyed most of the old stock: this cleared the way for a total redesign of machines in 1915, particularly the Amberola 30, 50, and 75.
By this time, though, cylinder Phonographs were less popular: Edison discontinued direct recording of cylinders, switching instead to dubbing from disc masters. You can hear the decline of sound quality in many of these later Blue Amberols.
How can you tell how old are they and did they have different fabrics used in the front screen?
Is it okay to play the brown wax and moulded wax cylinders on these machines?
Unless it has 2 gears, no, however the 4 minute black wax ones should play, the reason the 2 minute ones cant is due to the less tight threads on the feed gear.
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Sounds like Billy Murray to me. Fred Fisher was the composer. Also looks like the stylus made contact with the record before the drop lever was actuated!😮😮
My Dad and I are experiencing the same issue. I believe that the little screw with the nut needs to be adjusted so that the stylus part of the reproducer goes higher when the lift and lower lever is raised. Is there something else to this?
Such ambiguous lyrics!%
The singer sounds like Billy Murray.