[Phono-L] This Memorial Day in my home Town

[valecnik57-purc at yahoo.com]

Congratulations Bruce on successfully organizing the memorial day concert.  I have small children and have offered more than one time to do a similar "show and tell" type thing for the children but the school administrators don't seem terribly interested.

In my home town in Minnesota, the Historical Society built a large, very expensive exhibit building at the fairgrounds and stocked it with old a few old steamer trunks, some circa 1900 farm implements and the most beat up mahogany victrola XVI you've ever seen in your life.  They also have a pioneer village with a Drug store there from ~circa 1905-1910.    I've offered to set up a broad display in the large building of up to 50 machines or a more targeted display in the drug store,(could be for example only Edison machines of ~1906, 07, 10, 14, 18, etcetera).  No interest.

Closest I've come to your success is about 15 years ago for a friend's wedding I was requested to provide the music.  That was pretty cool.  I set up a victor V with petaled horn and an electic microphone in front of the horn and provided the music for ~ 100 people for a good part of evening.

Cheers,
The other Bruce

 Bruce Johnson
Pod Valem II, 870
252 43 Pruhonice
Czech Republic







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