There's nothing like collecting items of entertainment. I love old phonograph/78's, but my specialty is radio's and TV's. Every time I look at these pieces I think of people of the day laughing and smiling to them. They're items that evoke the same reaction today.

I’ve bought records from Kurt many times. Nice guy, very knowledgeable

Gotta love these inventions. Things are big enough that you can actually SEE how it works. Mechanical and Electro/mechanical music and sound stuff is a favorite of mine.

being a collector myself with about 200 machines I am just amazed at the space he got! oh, I'm sorry! not about the machines you ask? well, I have been collecting and repairing/restoring phonographs for 32 years in that time I pretty much have seen it all so I'm not easily impressed that often anymore but it still happens but not with these phono's they are pretty standard, and since I live in Europe pathé machines like the one shown here do pop up from time to time the automatic player that did impress me.

The violano-virtuoso is simply un believable!!! Congrats!!

Had a great time with Kurt and his wonderful collection during last May.

The Victor Orthophonic machine sounds rich and had great fidelity!

Fantastic! Thank you for this impressive tour.

What a wonderful musical saloon! Thank you for sharing!

Just great. Thanks, Kurt!

Love your collection ! Thanks so much for sharing with all of us..........

Great collection beautifully presented.

WOW! Thanks for the tour--fascinating!

Love the 1932 Ben Selvin Columbia of “Of Thee I Sing” you played on the Victor Orthophonic.

it is amazing how phonographs from that time worked and how good their sound is.

I bought dozens of records, mostly 78's, from Kurt Nauck back in the minute, but I never knew what he looked like until now.

He feels like a patient teacher and some of it can be very dry without a demo. To those of us who are looking at needles and thinking about how clean the records are, we sometimes forget that starting the fire starts with a lesson. I have friends who would enjoy this mini tour in person and I hope you each had a good time. Now, have you since purchased or inherited a 78 player? ;D

Thank You! That was GREAT!!!

Fantastic !

Great collection of historical musical instruments. I'm currently doing a complete "Frame Off" restoration of a 1950s Rock-Ola Juke Box. Dismantled it down to ever last "nut, bolt, and screw", and totally refurbishing all the parts. This will ultimately be about a three month project. Alton Higgins Hiawassee, GA.

Awesome stuff! I wish I owned these. Love them!

Very nice collection!!!

super superb video ❤

Beutiful piece of history

That is awesome!

I love the Credenza sound. Unbelievable for 1925 and hard to understand...An acoustic machine for an electric recording...

The late and expensive acoustic players were pretty close to the first electric record players.

Gorgeous gramophone collection!! Congratulations!!

Fantastic collection!

Hi Mr. Kurt! It's me who get so fantastic Harmony records (audio) from You ) Now I saw so fantastic thing You have in Your house. Thank You for those Harmony and maybe someday I can say thanks in person. Bixbix81

Thanks to Paul and Kurt for a wonderful trip back in time!!! Ben Harris

AMAZING HISTORY LESSON....

Spectacular!

Amazing. Now I know where the records I bid on came from.

Very nice video.

Hello, superbe collection, very beautiful ,amicalement ,Roger

Magnifique enregistrement 😊

I owned one of these, and yes they did sound better and played louder then any other acoustic machine, when I demo'ed it for people they could not believe it wasn't a electronic phonograph.

I LOVE THIS!

4:54 Looks like that reproducer could use a back flange replacement!

That "paper cone" is, in every important respect as far as sound goes, a modern speaker. The only difference is a modern speaker is vibrated by a magnet and coil, while this one is vibrated mechanically. In the part you can see, they are identical. You could take a modem speaker and attach it to that transfer "wire" and it would do the exact same thing.

Wonderful

Kurt, really enjoyed your Mills Violano. Difficult to find one that plays well. Love the idea of your new Buddy system. I wish you the best. Rick from Duncanville.

So interesting to see the Salesman's sample of the orthophonic horn, that is a First. A big thank you to America's no. 1 record man.

Magnifiques enregistrements😊

3:51 There was someone else on YT who has an HMV machine with, I believe, an even bigger horn than the that Victor machine. I believe it was made in the early 1930s, when RCA-Victor had moved on to making their top-of-the-line Victrolas with electronic pickups.

So much fun!!! Simpler technology.

3:50 ❤️❤️❤️ I love it!

Oh so nice

Kurt ! That's fabulous ! What is that song playing on the Columbia label between 7:00-10:05 on this vid ?

0:46 I feel like marching now!

...SENCILLAMENTE HERMOSO....VER ALGO MECÁNICO...DANDO A LUZ EL SONIDO....Y LA VOZ DEL AMO....ESUCHANDOLA...

That tone chamber is much the same a 1970's- 80s W cabinet for producing Bass for a concert sound system.

10:30 When I was a kid, I had a "Bozo the Clown" pull-string doll that had a cone like that, and a multi-spiral-record built into it, so it played different phrases at random.

The Victrola predates RCA's buyout of the brand, and the factory at Camden, NJ by 2 years. The Victor Talking Machine Co. used the Dog & Gramophone logo under licence from The Gramophone Company Ltd. of England. In 1929, the British company that owned the Dog & Gramophone logo(trademark) should have withdrawn(revoked) Victor's licence to use the trademark when Victor was sold to RCA. The record being played was made by the US parent company, Columbia Graphophone Co. Inc. which had established a British division. The US parent company failed but the British division thrived and became a company in its own right. In 1938 the now-independent Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd. of England merged with The Gramophone Company to form Electric & Musical Industries Ltd.(EMI). The two brand-names forming the flagship labels of the new company.

I would love to hear some records from the late 40 to eqarly sixtys played on the machine. After hearing all the machines I prefer the wood horn to metal

Olá, boa noite; é incrível a tecnologia antiga, também os moves que era montado os aparelhos, são incrível, muito bem feito com a maior perfeição as montagens dos moves de madeiras bem trabalhada, ainda dou os meus parabéns, pela tecnologia antiga e toda obra feita da mesma perfeição, que ficou para sempre,

I have an Edison cylinder phonograph with about 50 blue amberol cylinders. It plays fantastically well, but all seem to be brass band marches. Lol.

wonderful collection i ve got 19,000 shellacs :-)

7:03 Is there a way I can get this record?

May I ask what songs the violano virtuoso was playing in this video?

I've got some scarce Phyllis Dare records that have not been recorded and posted on KZfaq by anyone else (I'm farely certain). All I need is a gramophone to play them, and I'll hopefully upload them one day.

Damn great collection. I only have 1 gramophone in my gonna be huge in future collection. How much have you spent on gramophones so far. But seriously you have a wonderful collection

I love this video, folks! Where is this place? I wanna visit it one day...

11:24 I started listening to that because of Tiny Toon Adventures.

都很喜欢，芝加哥演奏家更是叹为观止！

Hmmm, kinda predates Atec's Voice of the Theatre. Ever try a 12" behin one of them horns?

A couple of my favorite self-opionated factoids..... 6:30 The Bose Acoustic Wave CD player claims to have a 6.5 foot folded horn (I wonder where they got that idea and why did they add another 6 inches?). Unfortunately the Bose horn is made of plastic, not the wood or metal of the "true" Orthophonics. I noticed that Kurt is playing an electrically recorded Columbia Viva-Tonal record on the Victor Orthophonic Credenza. In my opinion the Viva-Tonal recordings were superior to Victor's VE recordings. Especially the the Paul Whiteman Potato Head records, where Columbia used the best quality of shellac discs for richness and clarity of sound. I treasure the four large Orthophonic Victrolas that I have, I would have more if I had a larger living room. My only Columbia Viva-Tonals are two of the 163 portable which produce an amazing sound.

Paul my job was making phonographs, my name is Guido Claerhout, I live in Belgium? I am an expert in repairing those machines?

👍❤️

Whats thevsong at 13:16

What were all the songs?

That Pathé tho

I have over 100 of those old records . I’m looking for a place to sell. Dose anyone know ? Please let me know.

14:00 I knew a system with three violins what will pushed to a rotating bows.

Класс хочу такой .

You're actually supposed to close the lid of the victrola record player; it will get rid of the scratching noise the needle makes during playback.

어 메이징~~ 감사 합니다..

The lady with the glasses is quite attractive. 😀 👓 ❤

And , really, Kurt... Demonstrating a Victor Orthophonic machine with a Columbia record? That'a a mismatch made in the hot place way down below!

When Camden, NJ, wasn't a dump.

The Edison Triumph (as with so many cylinder phonographs on KZfaq) is playing too fast. Ed Meeker's spoken introduction should not sound like a Saturday morning cartoon character!

Neat, how backwards we have gone as a people.

Phonograph, that starts at 6:00 looks like Credenza. Is it?

:-)

Kurt,Do you remember Big Lou from the Wayne Nj show? You gave me 50 bucks for a Black Patti record sleeve and some donuts.? Sorry it was a Black Swan.

Everything until electrical pickups was lipstick on a pig. Orthophonic is just a lighter reproducer still using a steel needle to chew up your old records, albeit a little less quickly. Okay for early acoustic records, save your electrically recorded discs for the stereo. Do not play Hit of the Weeks on a Victrola. 🐸

in Italia non si capisce niente !

Так хотел бы попасть в америку я там бы такие вещи делал

Beautiful collection but very bad camera work !

Nice general idea, but the constant motion of the handheld camera gives me severe motion sickness. Why can't people just hold the thing steady for a bit, then smoothly move it to change the point of interest and hold it steady again ???

Unwanted laughing.

Are they all drunk?

Not as good as my 1956 AUTOCYCLE

Why does she laugh all time???

Prachtige muziek dozen en pick up's, maar wat slecht gefilmd!!

It would have been better if there wasn’t so much talking and comments in the background.

I can't watch this. The video is recorded in stereo, which is normally the best way to record sound, but it sounds like the sound is spinning around my head in my headphones. Put it together with the way too giggly woman who needs to put a sock in it, and the voices being drowned out by the music it makes this unwatchable. Shame too.