1928 Victor Victrola Electrola VE7-26X Serial 4336 Playing AM, mp3 and Vogue picture disc
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- Опубликовано: 11 дек 2017
- After my first one ( • Restored 1928 Victor V... ) here is my second Victor 7-26, a fairly popular radio/phonograph combination, introduced late in 1928 but discontinued already half a year later. It comes in a wonderful walnut wall type cabinet in English style with turned legs, ornate speaker grille and doors banded in black. The set combines Victor's Electrola, used also in other 1920's models, with the Radiola 18 and a permanent magnet speaker developed by RCA. The Radiola 18 was supplied to Victor Talking Machine for this set; it is one of the last TRF Tuned Radio-Frequency receivers and one of the first all-electric radios. Mine has 6 out of 7 globe type tubes and the 100A speaker looks and works like new. Centerpiece is the phonograph compartment with its concealed lamp and two record storage compartments on either side. The Electrola was used in a number of late 1920's Victor sets including the 1929 RE-45 console and has Victor's brushless induction disc motor and an automatic brake, that relies on a records last groove to be eccentric. The tonearm is made from the same parts as used for an acoustic orthophonic machine, the head however hosting a horseshoe magnet magnetic pickup system. These pickups need all to be rebuilt, having very small but essential rubber parts that have stiffened and brittled over time. Mine however still has a working original pickup coil with the correct impedance. Often also the magnet has to be re-magnetized. The 4 albums bound in colored buckram with gold stampings are specific for this model, and are very hard to find in this original and mint condition. The albums are filled with many electrically recorded orthophonic records, that too look like never played. Even the first page title lists have never been written on. The set was for sale at Radio Antiks (ref.1).
ref.1: www.radio-antiks.com/IndexRadi... . 
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A thing of beauty!
That is a very impressive presentation thank you so much for sharing I'm sure you are very pleased with that machine in your collection. Congratulations on that find and your restoration work. Very very nice!
Wow you are a lucky man! This is a lovely machine and you present it very well!
Thank you for this video; fascinating information, beautiful images, and wonderful sounds and music! EDIT: I have to add, it's really fun to see you connecting present day technology to its past, and having them work well together. It's like watching a kid hang out with a great-grandparent.
Wonderful machine !! Congratulations !!
What a wonderful set. Thank you so much for posting.
I have that same picture disc. It is from Clyde McCoy it’s called Put That Ring On My Finger. I finally got to hear what it sounds like. Great music. Acquired this from a friend who passed on. Thank you for playing it.
Wonderful. Thanks for sharing!
Very good record player sound.
This is a great record player
Very Nice Set!
You're shredding that Vogue.
I love the Goldberg Variations!
This would be getting to have in Montana and Saskatchewan where they still play music on AM radio! It sounds really nice 👍🏻
Do they still make AM radios? I'm not being snarky. I haven't seen one in years. My phone is FM only. My stereo receiver is FM only. Maybe there's AM on the car radio? I'm going to have to check the manual. It may be there, and I just don't know how to access it. But then, why bother? Where I live, AM was right wing propaganda, Spanish, and Jeeeesus.
@@efandmk3382 My car radio plays AM, Long Wave and FM; the player has a CD slot. I can play mp3 or from a computer using a radio relay. It's not a new car, but it isn't a museum piece either.
They had amplified sound record players in 1928? I had no idea. I thought acoustic sound had been around until a little later.
The electronic recording technique was introduced during spring of 1925 :)
Nice player
This was Victor's first AM radio/Victrola combination from 1928. Victor made a license agreement with RCA to put out this beast. It has an RCA Radiola 15 made by RCA, and a Electrola made by the Victor Talking Machine Co. which was the electrical version of the Victrola, and it runs on electrical power, not wind-up, it was motor driven, not spring barrels.
This was used right up until 1929 when the Victor Talking Machine Co. was bought out by RCA and became RCA Manufacturing Co. and rebranded itself as RCA Victor and the name "Victrola" was renamed as "RCA Victrola", and as of now, the "Victrola" name is still the company that made Crosley knockoffs.
Фантастическая техника.
there were several victor radiola models made some with electric playback some with acoustic playback.
the gimmick with these was that if you had enough money you could have one made of your own design just like an oil baron in Dallas did in the early 1930s his magnificent radiola had both electrical and acoustical playback the radio and electric playback could be heard through the very same speaker shown here but the acoustical playback goes into the realm of the fantastic with an orthophonic horn 2 times the size as a usual one slanted on its side with the radio and phono on top of that since the horn was on its side the metal tube going to the horn was long inside there, there was a mechanical valve like a camera's iris shutter with a wire remote it could be turned slowly inward until shut lowering the volume with every turn of the knob on the end of the wire the radio also had a wired remote but on a stand that would be next to the listener's seat complete with an ashtray!
inside the reproducer, there was a disc pad made of felt with a screw on the tonearm it could be pushed on the diagraph changing the treble frequency.
the whole thing has a footprint the size of a car! since it could also hold a library of record books with the whole thing filling the wall from floor to ceiling! the mechanism of the phonograph was that of the victor acoustical record changer picking up records from one tray on the right and throwing them in a padded tray on the left an advantage because you could stay in your seat until about 20 records played.
quite a monstrosity and, there's only one! now in Germany.
Hi I have questions for for you I do have one from 1928 but question is possible to have two 45 tube or my be a mistake
Discussing some of the questions below concerning this Electrola playing vinyl, I like to direct you to another video I made about a very rare Canadian RE-46, on which I play even 33 rpm vinyl: ruclips.net/video/h1mb0te3wVo/видео.html .
Hot music. Sounds like Scarlatti to me...
Did the pick-up in the cartridge use a Rochelle salt crystal?
No, this is a purely electromagnetic pickup with a large horseshoe permanent magnet and using steel needles. Piezoelectric pickups based on Rochelle or seignette salt came up about a decade later in the late 1930's and were perfected with the advent of Columbia's 33 and RCA's 45 rpm technology even two decades later in 1948/49.
@@radioOantiks Thanks for the prompt reply.
What's the name of that disc?
Wait, what? Vinyl? Doesn't it get destroyed by those heavy needle pressures?
Most 78's were shellac, not vinyl.
@@saintmichael1779 Hence my question.
@@RegebroRepairs He should not play a Vogue Picture Disc on his phonograph. Heaven forbid!
@@saintmichael1779 But even this Electrola has quite massive needle pressure, doesn't it?
@@RegebroRepairs I don't know what the tracking pressure is on an Electrola, but he says that RCA used the same on their acoustic Orthophonic phonographs. Must be at least 20 grams, if not more. Either he does not know what damage he is doing to a vinyl 78's (sad), or he does not care (doubly sad).
I have a question for you. As you know, Columbia introduced LP/microgroove for the public in 1948. Did Vogue Picture Discs have something approaching microgroove, rather than the .7 mm usual for 78 records? I think that, after microgroove was available, the last of the 78 discs took a .3 mm rather than a .7 mm needle.
That's a much higher fidelity picture disc from after WWII, please play a record from 1928 on the record player in another video. Thanks.