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Speaker 1: To write the Book of Love? Do you have faith

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Speaker 1: in God?

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Speaker 2: So this is a big thing you brought into the studio.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is a rather large antique item. I have

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Speaker 1: brought in my Victor five phonograph. This was a fairly

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Speaker 1: expensive item in its day. It sold for sixty dollars,

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Speaker 1: which is the equivalent to about I think it was

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Speaker 1: sixteen hundred dollars. So, yeah, we're the the rate of inflation. Yeah, adjusted,

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Speaker 1: and this item is worth between twenty to twenty five

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars retail. The Victor fives are very desirable among collectors,

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Speaker 1: especially this lovely oak wooden horn that's known as the

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Speaker 1: Victor spear point horn. This is a relic that's about

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen years old. It was first manufactured

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Speaker 1: in nineteen ten and it continued to be manufactured up

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Speaker 1: until about the round the mid nineteen twenties, when more

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Speaker 1: advanced machines were being introduced, including the Victor Orthophonic, which

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Speaker 1: had its one hundredth anniversary this weekend. It was introduced

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Speaker 1: fall of nineteen twenty five, November two, and so we

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Speaker 1: have had one hundred years of orthophonic sound, and that

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Speaker 1: is the pinnacle of mechanical sound reproduction. What I find

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Speaker 1: so fascinating about these devices is that they can be

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Speaker 1: played without means of electricity, and they sound amazing. Right now,

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Speaker 1: I have one of my favorite demonstration discs on there,

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Speaker 1: and I like it so much because everybody knows this

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Speaker 1: tune instantly when they hear it. Whoops, not that one.

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Speaker 1: Let me turn it over.

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Speaker 2: We're scratching the record. Are needles difficult to replace?

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Speaker 1: The needles are not difficult to replace. In fact, you

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Speaker 1: are supposed to replace them every time you play.

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Speaker 2: Now this, Yeah, where did you purchase?

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Speaker 1: I purchased this one in Hastings, Michigan at the Stanton's

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Speaker 1: Phonograph Auction. They have it once or I'm sorry, twice

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Speaker 1: a year, usually once in the spring and once in

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Speaker 1: the fall. A lot of older collectors, you know, passing

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Speaker 1: away liquidating their collections. Not every child is interested inheriting

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Speaker 1: these items, but I think that they're just so fascinating

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Speaker 1: the idea of mechanical sound reproduction. And there's something that's

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Speaker 1: charming and appealing about this this old time device.

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Speaker 2: What got you into collecting?

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Speaker 1: My grandparents were very very much into, especially my grandfather,

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Speaker 1: collecting antiques. They were not record collectors. I started that

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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, I believe, when I went to an

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Speaker 1: estate auction in northern Indiana and I had spotted an

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Speaker 1: Edison ambarolla player, which I had mistakenly because I didn't

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Speaker 1: know as much at the time, fied as a tin

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Speaker 1: cylinder playing machine, but of course it plays blue amberrol cylinders,

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Speaker 1: which is made out of celluloid and came late, significantly

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Speaker 1: later than the Edison tin players. But that was my

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Speaker 1: introduction into the collecting hobby of phonographs, and I just

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Speaker 1: think that they're so They're so cool, and they stuck

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Speaker 1: around for a long time because they were continuing to

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Speaker 1: press seventy eight rpm records into up until about nineteen sixty.

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Speaker 1: I think they stopped in nineteen fifty nine. So from

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Speaker 1: eighteen ninety to nineteen fifty nine you were able to

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Speaker 1: purchase and play records on devices that were dozens of

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Speaker 1: years old.

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Speaker 2: So you crank this thing once and it's good to go,

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Speaker 2: or do you have to like continually.

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Speaker 1: Well, eventually you will have to crank it to refresh it.

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Speaker 1: But the Victor five was expensive because it had a

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Speaker 1: three spring motor. So if you gave it one good

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Speaker 1: crank and then cranked through all three of the springs.

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Speaker 1: Then you could play multiple multiple records.

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Speaker 2: How do you maintain these.

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Speaker 1: Very carefully?

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Speaker 2: I have to.

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Speaker 1: I have to dust them, oil them. Usually if I

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Speaker 1: buy a new one, I have to get the reproducer rebuild.

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Speaker 1: But that's part of the charm. I view myself as

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Speaker 1: a steward of these machines because when properly cared for,

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Speaker 1: they're going to outlive us all.

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Speaker 2: You probably have a museum worthy collection at home, don't you.

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Speaker 1: At this point, it's something that's getting there. I have

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Speaker 1: about fifty different phonographs of all different shapes and sizes,

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Speaker 1: and I have a lot of other antiques too. And

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Speaker 1: Terry Stacey has been giving me a cool opportunity on

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Speaker 1: the first day show, yeah, to do antique show and tell,

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Speaker 1: and we have that about once every other week where

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Speaker 1: I take something cool from my collection and tell the

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Speaker 1: audience a little bit more about it and some of

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Speaker 1: the history.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, keeping track of history. Well, Ethan, thank you very

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Speaker 2: much for joining me today. Thank you, Kevin, thank you,

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Speaker 2: and thank you for listening. This has been the Kendall

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Speaker 2: and Casey Show. It's ninety three WIBC and Ethan's going

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Speaker 2: to take us out with some music. A spell on

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Speaker 2: you because of my stout the things you to look out.

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Speaker 2: I can't say we'll run it around.

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Speaker 1: I can't say.

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Speaker 2: Witting me down A spell on you

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Speaker 1: Because he had him