It's
Christmas Eve! Another Feel It Advent-ure is over, already (albeit
after a late start!). I know it's a cliché, but the days and years
seems to go by quicker and quicker.
Although
not the typical thing you would hear around here I couldn't resist
posting a little of this EP today, a festive find in a second hand
shop just 24 hours ago. It truly is enchanting.
The
noise between tracks is a coin drop. These were not played on the
average musical box you might have found on a lady's dressing table,
but in disc musical boxes (I'm not sure I knew there was such a
thing). Some were made for public places and were essentially “juke
boxes”. The boxes were in the Roy Mickleburgh, of Bristol,
collection. Mickleburgh's musical instrument shop was established in
1903 and is still trading today.
Merry
Christmas to you all.
Enchanted Carols , released in 1966 on a Saydisc EP:
Silent
Night (played on a Polyphon 9 1/2” disc).
Good
King Wenceslas (played on a Polyphon 22” disc with a glockenspiel
attachment).
PS:
I managed to fix my turntable. It got worse before it got better, I
lost a channel altogether. But it seems OK again now.
