[Phono-L] info on united Talking Machine "Symphony"

Dave hillebrandt dave at w4ci.com
Fri Apr 6 13:51:51 PDT 2007


Hi All, Was wondering if anyone on the list can steer me to where i can learn a little more about my united Symphony disk player. Picked one up a few months ago and have about 50 records with it but after using Google to search, can find very little on the internet about the company who made the player or about the records themselves. it works pretty well and though the sound is not as good as some Victors that i've had, figure it might be partly because of the quality of the recordings; not bad at all though.  i do know it was made sometime in the teens and gather they weren't totally a flash in the pan because i know they had a few well known artists that performed for the lable such as uncle josh of who i have a couple united Records of.  Thought the "big hole" records were neat and couldn't pass it up. Am totally blind and so harder to find specialized antique books in braille or on tape but even when having sighted friends look around for me, have had very little luck locating much info at all. Any suggestions or info you can e-mail me  please let me know. i gather that the Standard and united Phonograph companies were the ones to use large hole records but perhaps the size of the whole is different. Thanks for anything. Happy Easter and Pass Over. Sincerely, Dave


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