Tonight, we meet two collectors, one from Manchester who stockpiles cookie cutters, and another from Rumney with a world-class collection of working Edison cylinder phonographs that date back to the ...

As music fans around the country celebrate Record Store Day, which started in 2008, Albert Menashe shares a look at his records and record players going back over 100 years. Albert Menashe sits in one ...

Every Thursday, we feature an image from the StarPhoenix archives. Today, we see Western Development Museum technician Steve Neufeld holding a wax cylinder recording for a phonograph, from July 27, ...

Imagine if your couch or your coffee maker suddenly started talking to you — or perhaps launched into the chorus of “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain.” What would your reaction be? Consider that, ...

After more than a century, gramophones, phonographs, and cylinder players are prized as collectibles—and music machines. George F. Paul has never forgotten the delight he felt when he encountered his ...

Ron Babb, of Tacoma, a former Boeing engineer, buys and repairs old clocks, player pianos and phonographs from the early 1900s. He also collects scary mechanical monkeys, pocket typewriters, and ...

REDLANDS – Curtiss Allen Sr. demonstrated his love of phonographs at the December meeting of the Breakfast Club of Redlands. That love began when he was 3 years old, Allen said, with a windup ...

Collector Mark Caruana-Dingli has spent years searching out musical antiques to restore and add to his collection. Like most collectors, Mark naively set out to obtain just one, which quickly became ...