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We also enjoy listening to other manufacturers’ products on a daily basis. New or used, we embrace beautiful audio. That is why we have a variety of products in our showrooms that will put a smile on your face.
Over the years, countless brands have passed through our shop. Lucky us! We got to experience great stuff being designed all over the world. We certainly don’t know everything, but from our experiences we can give a fairly good indication of how one brand compares to another sonically.
The predecessor of the Jukebox dates from 1889, when the phonograph with its wax roller was used in a saloon in San Francisco. Here Louis Glass and William S. Arnold had converted a phonograph into a mass listening device. Put in a coin and music! They had attached listening tubes to it, which looked a lot like stethoscopes. In 1919, the Frenchman Cyril de Vere came up with the bussophone, which in our opinion can be seen as the first jukebox. This was a completely mechanical machine that could play multiple wax rolls, with later models these became 78 rpm records. After Prohibition in the United States, which ended in 1933, bars and restaurants sprang up like mushrooms. Musicians were the norm but expensive, so the automatic phonograph gained more and more of a foothold. During the Second World War, entertainment ceased and with it the production of music machines. After the war, demand increased enormously, people wanted to enjoy and forget, the exuberant 1950s are the result of this. People demanded their pleasure. There were now jukeboxes everywhere and people were throwing in a coin everywhere. The icons we know or recognize today were built in the 50s and 60s. Equipped with good tube amplifiers with large woofers, this makes a good jukebox sound particularly full and tasty. Suddenly the beautiful device quickly became redundant, with the arrival of the television in the living room, many people stayed at home for entertainment and many bars closed their doors. Boring!
The predecessor of the Jukebox dates from 1889, when the phonograph with its wax roller was used in a saloon in San Francisco. Here Louis Glass and William S. Arnold had converted a phonograph into a mass listening device. Put in a coin and music! They had attached listening tubes to it, which looked a lot like stethoscopes. In 1919, the Frenchman Cyril de Vere came up with the bussophone, which in our opinion can be seen as the first jukebox. This was a completely mechanical machine that could play multiple wax rolls, with later models these became 78 rpm records. After Prohibition in the United States, which ended in 1933, bars and restaurants sprang up like mushrooms. Musicians were the norm but expensive, so the automatic phonograph gained more and more of a foothold. During the Second World War, entertainment ceased and with it the production of music machines. After the war, demand increased enormously, people wanted to enjoy and forget, the exuberant 1950s are the result of this. People demanded their pleasure. There were now jukeboxes everywhere and people were throwing in a coin everywhere. The icons we know or recognize today were built in the 50s and 60s. Equipped with good tube amplifiers with large woofers, this makes a good jukebox sound particularly full and tasty. Suddenly the beautiful device quickly became redundant, with the arrival of the television in the living room, many people stayed at home for entertainment and many bars closed their doors. Boring!
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The predecessor of the Jukebox dates from 1889, when the phonograph with its wax roller was used in a saloon in San Francisco. Here Louis Glass and William S. Arnold had converted a phonograph into a mass listening device. Put in a coin and music! They had attached listening tubes to it, which looked a lot like stethoscopes. In 1919, the Frenchman Cyril de Vere came up with the bussophone, which in our opinion can be seen as the first jukebox. This was a completely mechanical machine that could play multiple wax rolls, with later models these became 78 rpm records. After Prohibition in the United States, which ended in 1933, bars and restaurants sprang up like mushrooms. Musicians were the norm but expensive, so the automatic phonograph gained more and more of a foothold. During the Second World War, entertainment ceased and with it the production of music machines. After the war, demand increased enormously, people wanted to enjoy and forget, the exuberant 1950s are the result of this. People demanded their pleasure. There were now jukeboxes everywhere and people were throwing in a coin everywhere. The icons we know or recognize today were built in the 50s and 60s. Equipped with good tube amplifiers with large woofers, this makes a good jukebox sound particularly full and tasty. Suddenly the beautiful device quickly became redundant, with the arrival of the television in the living room, many people stayed at home for entertainment and many bars closed their doors. Boring!
The predecessor of the Jukebox dates from 1889, when the phonograph with its wax roller was used in a saloon in San Francisco. Here Louis Glass and William S. Arnold had converted a phonograph into a mass listening device. Put in a coin and music! They had attached listening tubes to it, which looked a lot like stethoscopes. In 1919, the Frenchman Cyril de Vere came up with the bussophone, which in our opinion can be seen as the first jukebox. This was a completely mechanical machine that could play multiple wax rolls, with later models these became 78 rpm records. After Prohibition in the United States, which ended in 1933, bars and restaurants sprang up like mushrooms. Musicians were the norm but expensive, so the automatic phonograph gained more and more of a foothold. During the Second World War, entertainment ceased and with it the production of music machines. After the war, demand increased enormously, people wanted to enjoy and forget, the exuberant 1950s are the result of this. People demanded their pleasure. There were now jukeboxes everywhere and people were throwing in a coin everywhere. The icons we know or recognize today were built in the 50s and 60s. Equipped with good tube amplifiers with large woofers, this makes a good jukebox sound particularly full and tasty. Suddenly the beautiful device quickly became redundant, with the arrival of the television in the living room, many people stayed at home for entertainment and many bars closed their doors. Boring!