This 1930's era gramophone was made from old London phone books, which makes it way cooler than an iPod.
Just got back from a day out in the Cotswolds. I'm too tired to write much about it (a traffic jam on the M40 illustrated the point made in comments to the post below) but maybe tomorrow.
On a whim we went to the World of Mechanical Music in Northleach. I thought it might be one of those cheesy private museums, but we found ourselves delighted by what we heard, a nice change from museums where you must read the displays to discover what era you're observing.
A giant gramophone played an old Artie Shaw recording, a big band artist who died recently. I realized I'd never heard a gramophone outside the movie theater. The sound, created by a bamboo needle, weaves and bobs, transporting you to another era.
They also had some cool, if politically incorrect, automata.
Another photo below the fold. Most of my photos were blurry, probably because I haven't yet read the manual to my camera. Gotta find time to do that.
A cylinder plays the piano, the drums, and the cymbals.
