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You guys need to stop posting stuff about vintage audio. It might get me into trouble. :hyper:

My first audio "system" was a Dumont RA345 mono record player my dad bought in '63. I think it was made in the mid-late '50s. Tube amp - 6C4, 12AX7, 2-50C5 pumping out maybe 5 watts. 10" woofer bass reflex cab and a cone tweeter. Surprisingly good sounding. The one I had was a mahogany finish and burgundy grill cloth with gold swirly pattern. Pretty nice looking piece. I don't remember what happened to it. I occasionally look for one but no luck, must be scarce. I have the Photofact for it.
1956 DUMONT RA345 PHONOGRAPH SERVICE MANUAL photofact schematic RECORD CHANGER | eBay

Stuff after that was a combination of a jukebox amp and whatever else I stumbled across.The speakers were the Dumont cabinet with a Utah 10" bass instrument speaker and a home built 15" 3-way. The home built sounded about as good as it looked. lol. The speaker may have come from the jukebox. The jukebox has a story. A friend got it from the local vending machine company for free. It worked but was in pretty bad cosmetic shape. His family was moving and he gave it to me. Another friend and I put it in the back of his pickup. We turned a corner, it rolled over the side of the truck and broke into a million pieces. Everyone driving by kept asking "Is that a TV" No, it's a jukebox. "Is that a TV" No, it's a jukebox. :laugh: The amp and speaker survived. The rest of the stuff was tossed. Another one of those I don't remember what happened to that stuff.
 
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Deleted member 268085 said:
Arizona is great. Huge variety that a lot of peeps don't expect. Won't miss the politics.
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Yes, one thing I like about Mass, politics is good. To vote you walk into your precinct, tell them your name, they look it up in their booklet, cross it off, give you your ballot, you fill it out and throw it in the machine, done, takes 5 minutes. Our governor is a republican but he refrained for voting in the last two national elections.
 
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gtmalone said:
You guys need to stop posting stuff about vintage audio. It might get me into trouble. :hyper:

My first audio "system" was a Dumont RA345 mono record player my dad bought in '63. I think it was made in the mid-late '50s. Tube amp - 6C4, 12AX7, 2-50C5 pumping out maybe 5 watts. 10" woofer bass reflex cab and a cone tweeter. Surprisingly good sounding. The one I had was a mahogany finish and burgundy grill cloth with gold swirly pattern. Pretty nice looking piece. I don't remember what happened to it. I occasionally look for one but no luck, must be scarce. I have the Photofact for it.
1956 DUMONT RA345 PHONOGRAPH SERVICE MANUAL photofact schematic RECORD CHANGER | eBay

Stuff after that was a combination of a jukebox amp and whatever else I stumbled across.The speakers were the Dumont cabinet with a Utah 10" bass instrument speaker and a home built 15" 3-way. The home built sounded about as good as it looked. lol. The speaker may have come from the jukebox. The jukebox has a story. I friend got it from the local vending machine company for free. It worked but was in pretty bad cosmetic shape. His family was moving and he gave it to me. Another friend and I put it in the back of his pickup. We turned a corner, it rolled over the side of the truck and broke into a million pieces. Everyone driving by kept asking "Is that a TV" No, it's a jukebox. "Is that a TV" No, it's a jukebox. :laugh: The amp and speaker survived. The rest of the stuff was tossed. Another one of those I don't remember what happened to that stuff.
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My first guitar amp was an early 50's RCA TV with a bad picture tube but had a 12" speaker with an RCA jack in the back. I got more use out of the TV you wouldn't believe. I used to hook up my old tube AM radios to the speaker and lie in the back and feel the vibrations with my fingertips, yes I was a strange kid. Every Saturday morning I used to listen to the top 30, Beatles, Stones, Frank Sinatra, Roger Miller, you name it. That's why I like varied music till this day I believe.


 
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beans-on-toast said:
As I recall, you are set up with your nieces property.

Prices are not so bad.
Houses and property for sale in France
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Except around Paris. Prices in the area I'm building are a little over $200/sq. ft. In Paris, it's over $1000/sq. ft. 8 years ago, my brother bought a 610 sq. ft. apartment in Paris for €500,000 and sold it 5 years later for €600,000. Even little places, maybe especially little places, are now over $1000/sq. ft.
 
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Deeper Texan said:
And Obie will make sure you don’t escape by removing the toilet paper from the cell.
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I had something similar happen to me once, the police dug through the trash bag I had dumped on the side of the road because the dump was closed and made me go pick it up. They didn't lock me up though. It was a Saturday morning too and I was not feeling well, something I ingested the night before.
 
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GwenOnBass said:
In Massachusetts they'll ding you for littering. They'll prove their case in court with 27 8x10 glossy photographs with circles and arrows, and a paragraph on the back explaining what each one was.
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Stockbridge is a beautiful town right on the edge of the Berkshires, Edie Sedgwick grew up there before her family moved to California and Jame Taylor lives in the area, Lennox. Kenny Aronoff (drummer) was from Stockbridge. James is a very engaging performer, last time I saw him he had Steve Gadd on drums, I was thinking, 'Wow. that drummer sounds familiar and he's unbelievable.', yup, Steve Gadd. James is one of Massachusetts' treasures. Going to a James concert in MA is a special event.

 
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GwenOnBass said:
The leopard skin pillbox hat lady!
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Ever read this? GREAT book.

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GwenOnBass said:
The book is unknown to me, and the televangelist is unknown to me. George Plimpton isn't unknown to me. George Plimpton handed me my undergraduate diploma.
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George wants you to read it, it's THE book to read on Edie, very tragic life but very interesting book, all about Andy Warhol's factory and the characters who lived there.
 
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bobyoung53 said:
My first guitar amp was an early 50's RCA TV with a bad picture tube but had a 12" speaker with an RCA jack in the back. I got more use out of the TV you wouldn't believe. I used to hook up my old tube AM radios to the speaker and lie in the back and feel the vibrations with my fingertips, yes I was a strange kid. Every Saturday morning I used to listen to the top 30, Beatles, Stones, Frank Sinatra, Roger Miller, you name it. That's why I like varied music till this day I believe.


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My brother! :D

My dad's folks had an AA5 radio with an RCA jack on the back. Now that I know what I know, I'm surprised I didn't get electrocuted. We had a console Silvertone B&W TV that was about done. Daddy bought our first color TV and asked the dealer what he would give for trade-in. The dealer told him "I'll give you $25 to keep it". lol. I dismantled the TV but kept the cabinet for awhile. It had two speakers, count 'em, two! A 6x9 and 6. I dismantled a lot of old electronic stuff back in the day. I used to hang out at a TV/radio repair shop after school. I was in freaking heaven! The guy who owned the shop drank "a little". Almost all of the old TVs in the back were full of Old Crow bottles.
 
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bobyoung53 said:
George wants you to read it, it's THE book to read on Edie, very tragic life.
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Fortunate to have a local independent bookseller, and may very well visit soon as it is ciddy-corner from my coffee pusher. The man who did my photo op is the SO of the lady who orders the books. She takes her coffee daily at noon.

The casual reader correctly surmises this is a coffee shop and a bookshop I frequent.

Related only in that it's unrelated category: the locally owned ladies' formal wear shop is next to the bookstore. It's across the street from a locally owned mens' formal and semi-formal shop. Both are a couple doors down from a locally owned stationer. There's a brewpub within a block — and they host bands in pre- and post- covid. (Anyone who believe the two are the same needs their head examined IMO)

That's all the lead-in to the MTftBP head coach's comment: Something tells me jazz is your happy place.

I've got like four editions of the Real Book, including the real Real Books, plus the weird 6th edition that's missing Peaches En Regalia. :spit: Checked the local CL. There's a guitarist looking for someone who knows how to play like he plays, so if you know the diff between a guitar player and a guitarist you've come to the right place o_O Must have transportation (looks at map, zoom out, zoom out) the guitarist is out there in the woods so the "must have transportation" means he wants you to drive 35 minutes out of the city on two-lane roads
got it :rollno:

What I'm doing in place of a live human is MTftBP Unit 9. Ari's pattern book is in the mail, as is a wall chart. A ladies' tee ("girly" is what the dropdown selection read) with a picture of Skippy the Metronome. Yay. So I can swing quarter notes and know enough not to play a third if the melody is playing/singing a third.

That's my day today

edit. Oh yeah. Post-prom season means cut price gowns should the gig require.
 
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