Here Here! Andy On Jan 21, 2008, at 7:25 AM, phonofolks at aol.com wrote: > ... A big thank you to > Don Gfell and others who took the time to research the methods and > make > these horns available to collectors aaround the world. A thank you > to all those > collectors, like your Valentes and Wyatts, who negotiated with > companies to > reproduce the metal horns and other phonograph accessories such as > gaskets, > mica diaprahms, springs, screws, etc, etc, etc.which if we did not > have we would > not be able to hear what our edison standard, home, opera, or > Victor VI > acutally sounded like. Can you magine what it would be like for our > hobby if > these materials and accessories were not reproduced? Again I say > thank you to all > those reproduction contractors out there who keep our hobby alive > and and > healthy!