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<p>[QUOTE="Dawn mohrbavher, post: 246057, member: 4625"]LOL I know of a place that can take a song and reproduce it for a cylinder but they use a recording and ours is so worn it would come out even worse than it does...that said it's the funniest song...a man plotting his mother in laws demise via removing the brakes from her car, accidently slipping with a knife....house on fire (after he removes his possessions) and the chorus is beyond funny. Perhaps I should get a local band to record it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> That would be a great fathers day gift from my mom. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ok and Danno....do you know how to adjust the volume on your piece? A nerf baseball gently placed in the horn (you don't want to pull or push it in or you will get the horn off balance) cuts it in half. </p><p><br /></p><p>As to sound quality...Perhaps wine is involved (often the case) but we find lighting the candles in the parlor and playing the phonograph or gramophone (we have a little collection) is especially charming (with port) after a party when just our best friends linger. It takes us back to what our original builder would have been doing after a dinner with friends.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Dawn mohrbavher, post: 246057, member: 4625"]LOL I know of a place that can take a song and reproduce it for a cylinder but they use a recording and ours is so worn it would come out even worse than it does...that said it's the funniest song...a man plotting his mother in laws demise via removing the brakes from her car, accidently slipping with a knife....house on fire (after he removes his possessions) and the chorus is beyond funny. Perhaps I should get a local band to record it :) That would be a great fathers day gift from my mom. Ok and Danno....do you know how to adjust the volume on your piece? A nerf baseball gently placed in the horn (you don't want to pull or push it in or you will get the horn off balance) cuts it in half. As to sound quality...Perhaps wine is involved (often the case) but we find lighting the candles in the parlor and playing the phonograph or gramophone (we have a little collection) is especially charming (with port) after a party when just our best friends linger. It takes us back to what our original builder would have been doing after a dinner with friends.[/QUOTE]
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