Playing a 1917 Brunswick Model 7 Phonograph

okay so you know what we need to do now we got to play it right let's see if she's going to work so I got a bunch of Records in here I put my favorite one right here on the top shelf this is my top shelf record okay now I don't know anything about this so don't judge me people I just like how it sounds okay so this is an old Columbia record I don't know how old it is it's Raymond Scott and his new Orchestra we're gonna play a couple of them so this is the theme song of pretty little pett coat which I guess was a radio show or something I don't know I don't know people I'm much younger than this thing but this is a good one I like this one I can make it do its thing I hate to I don't have anything to set anything on I'm doing it all with one hand here and then the BS side is Bo it doesn't like to focus today the theme song from s s ribbon whatever I think maybe it might have been a movie maybe I don't know but we're going to play the theme song from Pretty Little pedot I don't know people don't ask me I wanted to focus though so that you can see just how cool this is right so here's how we're going to do it we're going to put the brake on then I'm going wind this sucker up one two three four five six seven eight 9 10 the break's trying to go 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 I'm getting tired 47 48 49 50 51 52 it went about about 52 times I think it'll usually go about 50 but usually I I guess I'm holding the brck with the other hand okay so I'm going to start it and then I'm going to turn the needle around and try to put it on the first Groove and then we're going to listen to it um with the lid down and then I will turn the volume knob so you can hear you can kind of get the the vibe of the two different volumes but the reason I like this song is because I like the instruments and stuff just sounds awesome okay so we take the brake off it'll start going one winding like I just did is enough usually to play two records so we turn the thing around we got our new needle on it drop it right at the beginning [Music] [Applause] [Music] whoa [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] h [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] he [Music] I [Music] [Music] the [Music] [Applause] I [Music] [Music] wow how's love it I think that's cool now you can't sit around and listen to that kind of stuff all the time but isn't that awesome so you should put a new needle on it but I'm just going to play it for a second we're going to go back through it and I'll I'll do the volume thing okay so there's a knob here on the side here it's much much quieter [Music] [Applause] now [Music] how cool is that wow so they've all kind of got this kind of creepy vibe to them though you know it's kind of got the Jeepers Creepers thing going on so I understand that part of it you know so you like I said you can't sit around and listen to them all the time but if you if you're playing like Louis PR that's not creepy right but I kind of like these really old ones I don't know this is probably from the 40s actually 30s or 40s um it'd be cool to find some from actually 1918 1919 um just to kind of see how it would have sounded in the uh in the U showroom you know but let me grab another record and we'll play another one okay so here's another one I really like this is the Majestic label and it's Twilight time by the three Suns s NS I have no clue who that is but that's what it says um so if you've ever heard the old platters song Heavenly shades of light are falling it's twilight time right um that you know was a big hit for the platters way back in the day and it's one of the early early songs that was right around when rock and roll was starting so it's it's very oldfashioned sounding the reason it's like that is because there was even it was a really old song so this is from like the 30s or something and it's an instrumental of Twilight time fantastic I put a new needle in it the needle this time I put a medium needle in it I usually don't use the real loud ones right and by the way like I said this is something where you know you might listen to it every few months just to because it's cool right so this is Twilight time by the the three Suns [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] e [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] uhoh gotta skip the CD's [Music] [Applause] skipping so is it a skip or yeah yeah so it's got a little uh it's got a scratch in there somewhere that's making it um Loop which is a shame what a beautiful beautiful record okay so I'm going to try try to find one that's a little more upbe to end the video with uh just so you can see how it sounds when it's playing something a little faster which is probably more to most people's liking all right I found one it's a little bit faster you can get stuff like uh you know they they still made these in the 50s so you can get some of the the much more popular stuff on 78 but this you know I kind of like the stuff that's really old on this really old photograph so this is Frankie Carl and his orchestra evina and it's a Fox Trot and it's from Bloomer girl vocal chorus by Paul Allen okay so it's a little more upbeat because it's a fox Tru um I played a sraon record but uh YouTube blocked it they probably don't know who this guy is or nobody owns his music anymore so they won't block it I put a uh the loud needle in it and I've got the thing opened all the way up so we can hear this thing like wailing you know [Music] the [Music] [Applause] la [Music] [Music] Shine by theing tell me tell me how long you're going to keep keep lay don't with April this [Music] way a little mine to me wake up wake up the Earth isir the but what's the use of smelling bring into another fell [Music] [Music] will [Music] very cool have a feeling it'll eat right through the end one of those if you leave it like that all right so there you go hope you enjoyed it I always thought these things were cool it was cool to fix one up test out some of our old uh 78s on it and it was cool to get that Grill finally wow wow so very cool so leave your comments below let us know what you think you know it's right here at the end of the year so I thought it'd be a good time to do a you know a classy video like this about something from a hundred years ago just think about it everybody that built this thing has passed away everybody you you hearing singing on that song for instance has passed away all of those musicians have passed away uh but this phonograph is still here doing its thing sounds probably as good as it did the day that it was made so um I I always found that fascinating and that's one of the reasons I like old uh uh arcade games pinball machines and stuff is because they're made to entertain us but eventually we're not not even here anymore you know so it's just it's interesting to see uh you know in 1920 somebody probably just loved this thing this this I don't know who it belonged to but this was probably one of their favorite things they probably just love to put records on there and play it so it's good to uh get a record out every once a while and put it in it and uh see if it still does its thing like it has for the last 105 years or whatever it's been so I hope you enjoyed it leave your comments below make sure to give us a thumb thumbs up for taking the trouble to film it for you I've got another one of these at the shop that I'll fix up and do a bunch of uh videos for and make sure to check out our brother Channel my brother Donnie if you don't know about him he is literally my brother and uh we have a channel here on YouTube if uh you like watching us work on these old things like this and uh uh all of that we also have some old buildings that we're working on in beautiful downtown Jefferson South Carolina that we're fixing up and renting out to people and stuff in a small little town that uh um probably had a little store in it at some point that sold these back in the day so everything has a way of connecting together doesn't it so happy New Year hope you enjoyed the video and we'll see you on the next one