I want one so badly. This is such a fancy beautiful machine. It's just so pretty to look at. Thank you for posting this video.

Thank you for producing this marvelous video of impeccable quality! Note that 1,250 1930 U. S. dollars are worth about 17,000 2016 U.S. dollars.

Today in 2019 that would cost 18,258.00. This one seems like its gentle with the records. The mechanics involved is just amazing. Beautiful workmanship. Great video.

Gorgeous !! Absolutely fascinating !! Lovely machine and the best era in music !!

A dream come true for the repair guy. :D. Kidding apart, gorgeous mechanical stuff.

These changers are very amusing to watch! Thanks for showing them as well as for the music.

Superb video production, right down to the machine-age subtitles. Thank you!

The design, craftsmanship and machining is awesome! thanks for posting this video-a tinkerers delight!

Amazing videography! What a beautiful piece.

Love to see the Mechanics of these BEAUTIFUL Machines! I truly appreciate the Robbins & Myers motors, I also collect very Early Electric Fans! R&M is truly among the tops!

Well finally a video that shows the mechanism. Thank you so much! It really does handle the records very gently.

Thanks for preserving and restoring a great piece of American workmanship. You're right up there with all the other greats who have worked to preserve our history!

Just Fantastic!! I can watch a Capehart for hours. Such beautiful machines. Really excellent video!! Thank you so much for sharing with us!

Once again, elegant videograpy of a superb machine. Thanks.

Wow - lovely sound and what technology for 1930. Great post. Thanks.

Hi Graceville Wow I never seen one these unbelievable it looks amazing all craftsmanship details it's like jukebox in 1900s you have fantastic collection fair play to ya keeping these wonderful machines alive .Troupee from Ireland.

This one is even more incredible!! amazing!

Your videos are the best demonstration videos ever! They give the viewer a real lesson in antique technology, craftsmanship, with some beautiful dance music thrown in to demonstrate the high quality of sound available ninety years ago.

1930: $1250.00 2016: $18,000.00 2018: $18,201.10 2020: $19,022.59 *Source- CPI Inflation Calculator

Your videos deserve an Academy Award. None better for detail and accuracy. Thanks!

Wonderful machine. I´ve never seen one before in working condition. Many thanks für uploading and best wishes from Germany!!!

Love your video. Well put together. Great machine!! Thanks for sharing.

Beatiful,beatiful .thank you! Countri chile

Excellent video. Thank you!

My god, that has to be the most gentle record changer in the world. I'm working on restoring a capehart flip over record changer from the early 30's. Hope the cabinet comes out looking as good as yours does when it's done

FANTASTIC! Great choice of music to accompany this fascinating record changer...Truly amazing!

Beautiful video! Thanks for showing us how this great mechanism worked.

Fantastic!, Thanks a lot for your videos. The best production avalaible on youtube! Sequences, explications, music...All the best!

Amazing. Thanks for the good quality video and the captions.

This is great! There is one just like it in the museum in Hanks, North Dakota.

January 2021, 1,250.00 is now 19,478.22. You'd never see quality like that today. Absolutely gorgeous!

Say Yes! I WANT ONE OF THESE!!!

Awesome video and restoration...

WOW! Awesome video. I would see phonographs & jukeboxes only in ads from old vintage magazines, but here, you're giving a great demonstration with an authentic jukebox. Sounds awesome with my Bose headphones. Thank you for sharing with us!👍

Very well done video. Thank you for the effort!

I really love your videos on the old phonos. I can tell that you put a lot of effort into what you do and what you're trying to convey. Quite an education with all the worded details.

Beautifully photograhed, Bob!

Amazing machine, and as always your videos are top-notch. Thanks for sharing

thank you for that! That price was steep during that Depression era for one of those, however in 2003 I paid $5400 for a NSM wall mount juke box that I had installed at a bowling alley and in 2003 that wasn't cheap either.

In the midst of restoring a basket case one of these with no manual. I got it all back together but getting the timing correct on the chains and the cams and the electrical contacts is really hard. This video helps a lot

Bellísimo reproductor de música! Una auténtica obra de arte.

Nothing short of amazing!

Awesome!...thank you, GracevilleMN :-)

Binn, begeistert Mann kommt aus den staunen nicht raus, und ich dachte ich ich hatte schon alles in Sachen juke-box, Plattenspieler gesehen. Mach weiter so mei n unbekannter Freund.

What an awesome video!

LOVE your videos!

Astounding

Awesome - it's like magic.............

Beyond cool.

Just beautiful!!

You are owner of Treasure. Thank you for sharing great video. :)

Love this 👏

Hard to believe, there were no 45 RPM jukes prior to 1950. But those 45 systems were everywhere in the 1960s. 1 play for a dime, three songs for 25 cents.

so beautiful.......

Seems Like an early version of a jukebox very nice!!!!

Who restores these things? He’s the genius.

Wow! 😲 amazing machine 😀

Wow! Thank you for the demo! The records are not selectable, correct? It just plays them over and over. But what an AMAZING machine for the time.

Thanks! How about a look at the amplifier and speaker? Please......!

Awesome!

You have to wonder just how profitable this machine was. 25,000 plays. That would be about 1,700 hours of playing time. That doesn't include record costs, maintenance, electricity cost and floor space. Presumably it's in a public space and taking up room where a table could be. The timing of 1930 means it will spend its commercial life entirely during the Great Depression.

Beautiful! And that would cost $18,463.25 in 2017 dollars... dang!

Brilliant made video!!!

Not really a jukebox - you put your money in & you get whatever record is next. Lol. A beautiful piece of engineering - far too clever & intricate for words. Wonderful.

It truly is a beautiful and well built machine. So, what happens if someone tries to insert a nickel when the play counter is at 20?

I wanna come see it its amazing

Wow, what a machine! 🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵 😀😀😀😀😀

Love that singing in the rain version... 1929 Gus Arnheim, isn't it?

AWESOME!!!!

Wow! Outstanding! I was never much into record changers being a radio guy myself, but your videos are warming me up to them. Can I suggest in future videos you show the amplifier and speaker? Thanks!

Une merveille de technologie !

einfach nur grandios , an dieser Technik sollten sich manche mal ein Beispiel nehmen sie hat so viele Jahre auf dem Buckel und funktioniert immer noch tadellos ! Wenn ich dagegen manch andere Dinge sehe die schon nach der Garantiezeit gleich kaputt sind !

The owner would have to get 25,000 nickles to cover the cost of the unit! That is a lot of plays on the unit, and if it broke and needed repairs, what a cost! But it is a beautiful machine!

A great jukebox

This is stunning, but what about the needles? Needles have to changed after every side, let alone 56.. How does it deal with that problem?

What an amazing machine! They really simplified the mechanics on the Amperion compared to this one. Okay, the Orchestrope holds up to 28 records, which was useful as a Jukebox but otherwise the Amperion does the same job?

Where was this amazing machine made. If you took care of this player how long did it last ,?

What type of needle were one supposed to use with this machine? Tungsten? Sapphire?

where did you find this? and did you restore this beauty? another rare piece of history....

C'est honteux de ne pas entretenir un tel appareil 😢

Just curious. How this process of flipping, sliding, reloading the record again and again can be made avoiding scratches on the record?

Geez, that’s, what, 25,000 plays at a nickel each just to recoup the cost of the thing? I wonder how many of these were sold.

Just love this old mechanical stuff, it must weigh near 300 pounds or more ?

wow!!!!.🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

4:26 $18,862.72 in today's money or 75 cents a play. This machine needed lots of volume to pay for its self. (a new pinball machine costs $8,000).

I was bored, and did the math. $1250 comes out to 25,000 nickels. That’s how many plays would recoup the cost. If you assume three minutes per play, the maximum length for the 10” 78rpm, that’s 75,000 minutes. Divide by 60 minutes in an hour, and you’re back to your initial 1250. So, playing nonstop, you’d pay off $1 per hour of use, and finally see a return after 1,250 hours of playtime.

Please is turntable turnover on both sides ?

So you could stack the records that some of them plays in the second cycle the A side.

Nearly 20k in 2020

the sound head looks heavy on the record but is not?

Ah, the 1930s jukebox

how much does it cost ?

Interesting to see, how different the units changed the records. The record changer from the 60's are pretty boring.

Designed either by a maniac or a genius

Robotics!! 25,000 nickles. Playing 3 minutes per disk including loading and unloading each disk... 52 days of operation to earn back that $1250. It's getting paid $1.00 per hour.

The discs predate RCA's buying the Victor Talking Machine company. Victor used the "Nipper"(Dog & Gramophone) trademark under licence from the trademark's owner, The Gramophone Company of England. When, in 1929 RCA bought Victor, they should've only got the pant in Camden, New Jersey, and the Victor name, no more. The Dog & Gramophone should've reverted to The Gramophone Co. RCA had it's own trademark(the button logo with the lightning bolt trailing off the 'A' and outside the circle. It is this button trademark, RCA's own that should've replaced the Dog & Gramophone when the label became RCA-Victor. The next time America and Canada saw the Dog & Gramophone trademark should've been 1955 when EMI(merger of The Gramophone Co., and Columbia Graphophone Co.) bought out all but a few percent of Capitol Industries to make it a US subsidiary - a VERY JUNIOR MEMBER of the EMI group, so that when the "British Invasion" hit in the early 1960s, EMI would have the His Master's Voice imprint to carry The Beatles, Lulu, Herman's Hermits, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, Manfred Mann, The Hollies and others all under one brand instead of them being "farmed out" to other lesser labels. As well as these acts, some great Aussie acts like The Easybeats, Johnny Farnham, Bev Harrell, Axiom, Ted Mulry, The Master's Apprentices and others could've given America and Canada lessons on how to make REAL rock music!

26k nickels

Just the thing for a millionaire's digs!

Record changers are garbage