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My Grannies Radio Box
« on: September 01, 2009, 10:07:18 PM »

No Al, this isn't a melodeon that my Grannie hid a transistor inside (she was the one after all, who gave me my violin)!  :D In the VERY early days of wireless, before the days of loudspeakers, you had individual pairs of earphones and the radio itself was built into a wooden box with a hinged lid. You lifted the lid, plugged in your phones and Lol and behod! Words and music leaped across the ether into your shell-likes.  :o When more sophisticated hardware came in, the box was so well-made that my grandparents threw away the radio, but retained the box and kept gramophone records in it. QED.  :D

PS: Theo, why doesn't the spellchecker recognise the word "melodeon"? Has it been got at by PA agents?  >:E
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My other melodeon's a fiddle, but one of my Hohners has six strings! I also play a very red Hawkins Bazaar in C and a generic Klingenthaler spoon bass in F.!! My other pets (played) are gobirons - Hohner Marine Band in C, Hohner Tremolo in D and a Chinese Thingy Tremolo in G.
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