Automated Music Show, Spring 1999
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While prices have certainly increased in the past few years, a large selection of cylinders were still available in most every format (except Columbia 6-inch 20th Century... I couldn't find any of those... anyone have any for sale?). This table holds a few hundred Blue Amberols.
Charlie Martin, owner of "The Place" in Philadelphia, one of the few remaining phonograph storefronts, takes a break from a long, hectic morning. Although we started at 7am, by 1 or 2, most folks were winding down and packing up, and by 4, the show was all but a memory.
All said and done it was a pretty good show, but the high prices people are paying on the Internet for these items translates into higher prices for everyone. Sadly (at least to those of us who are primarily in this as a hobby), the business end of things drives the prices, and, well... business is booming!
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