I’ve been looking for a gramophone for years, in fact ever since I feel in love with one in an antique shop window 10+years ago in Nicosia, Cyprus. Couldn’t buy it because getting it home would have been a bit costly, and fundamentally the shop was closed!
Then I saw an Edison phonograph, with cylinders and all, in an antique shop in Kathmandu. Same problem; I couldn’t get it home. And to be honest I couldn’t afford it – way out of my price range. So I got some amazing glass slides instead.
Today I found myself in a coffee shop, Kaffismidja (http://www.kaffismidja.is/). It came highly recommended to me by a good friend saying “it’s the best coffee in the world!” I am certainly not going to contest this… and look what was sitting in the corner: An antique sound system (with a slightly more modern record player on top). Functioning or not, I’d happily acquire the sound system, even if it no longer makes sound!
Now I’m just a little worried to go into any antique shops, afraid I might find too many things to buy and resort to using that little bit of plastic in my wallet!
Coffee shop record player: quick snap taken with iPhone with some App to make it look old. I do have a Polaroid camera, guess I could have just used that and made it authentic.