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Music machines have changed Mr. and Mrs. Aldo Brenner were at Laurel Vo- collection of gamophones for the students to see. cational School last week with a portion of their Chronicle Photo The music making indus- try has come a long way mm years. - This fact is impossible to ignore when looking at the collection of gramo- phones owned by Marg and Alf Brenner. Students at Laurel Vo- cational School got a de- monstration of the antique record players in the Math Centre at the school last week, Mr. and Mrs. Brenner had brought in nine of the machines ranging in age from 1898 to 1925. The sam- pling of gramophones is only a small part of the collection which Mr. Bren- ner started to develop 10 years ago, a time when such antiques were still available and cheap. The Brenner collection now consists of 55 machines most of which are on dis- play each summer at Doon Pioneer Village. Such names as Edisons. Columbias. Victrola and mnophone are foreign to the present generation but were household words in the dawning years of the 1900's. "When we first started." Mrs. Brenner said, "the machines weren't that ex- pensive." She pointed out they had purchased a vic- trola in the early 1960's for817. The machines now sell ”around $150 to $300 the most expensive ones being those with a horn. The teenagers of that era were not left without their Portables either, The Ii," = Jim ~lxy by 1 'ei, INSURANCE l :2 ”a Best9tweatiaeait " In». " N. nulliqo --r-:-ereetrrrrerftt:Cr: " ' C----..--"----- b .-"- v an - - v v v M-uvv‘v‘v' 'ATs"iA'" no: mo iii " 'st " g) " Mr. Brenner is not with- out the music to go with his, machines. He has some 3,000 flat records and 800 cylinders. Most of the cylinders tire in extremely good con- dition, hardly showing their 70years of existence. Mrs. Brenner attributes this to the fact they did not have steel needles used on them. The cylinder machines mostly used diamond and For the private listening, there was the Columbia Q model gramophone which came with its own set of ear plugs. The Nifty Nirona had the added fea- ture of little pictures paint- ed on it and was a child's machine made in Germany. cameraphone given that name since when closed it looked like a box camera, could be carried easily and set up for operation quickly. Canada's largest-selling rye whisky. Blended and hauled hy Joseph E. Selma: & Sons, Ltd, Waterloo, Ont. The Easy Choiée. FIVE STAR Seag riinis saphire needles which were more permanent than the steel or wooden needles. "In the war years when there was a shortage of steel," Mrs. Brenner said, "the people used thombury apple needles." The Bren- ners even have managed to find some of those. along with wooden needles to place in their collection. The cylinders were first made of bees wax with plaster of paris inside. Later the bees wax was combined with a metallic soap compound and finally the last cylinders produced were blue Amberol. The cylinders kept in much better condition than the "flats" as Mrs. Brenner calls the regular records. The fascination of gramo- phones has been strictly a hobby for Mr. Brenner with many of the machines being brought from an un- They moved! The North Waterloo Can- cer Society has moved its office to 508 Ontario Street South in Kitchener from Frederick Street. useable condition into a well repaired state through patient hours of work. Proof of that is his col- lection of 55 which never gets smaller, only bigger. The machines he has col- lected are for his own personal pleasure, Mrs. Brenner said and he does- n't work on the basis of buying one, repairing it and then selling it for profit. Chargex Accepted This price is less than 2Or per hard cover volume. An unbelievable price Very. very. limited quantity. (Upstairs - Beside the Waterloo Theatre) Pggg,t BARN 12 KING STREET NORTH 57tt-4950 tii-H-ui, "THE MODERN ENCYCLOPEDIA or BABY AND CHILD CARE" THE BOOK BARN PER BOX OF " VOLUMES With,Pictures on Almost EVery Page. ALL HARD COVER Mort -Wed 10am. _ 6.30pm Thursday and Friday 10 a m . 10 p m Saturday 10:) m, to " m. ONLY " .99 (one complete set per box) Wilfrid Laurier University _ ADMISSION FREE - ALL WELCOME ' "tNRAnON IN THE NAPOLEONIC WARS?“ Waterloo Chmniclc. Wednesday, Novemhu 21, 1973 You are invited to attend the above lecture which will be given by Dr. John Norris (University of British Columbia) IN THE STU DENT BALLROOM TU ESDAY. NOVEMBER 27 at 8:00 p.m. FREE 1974 CALENDARS To the first 200 customers with a purchase of 62.00 or more (Enter parking lot off Albert St.) SPECIAL our-tye -Christmas Delivery available on request MPA OFF and PLUM PUDDINGS [Nov 19m _ 24m only) all CHRISTMAS lijjl THE BOOK BARN " CAKES