The Next Mechanical Music Extravaganza is Sunday, October 10, 2010!

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The next Mechanical Music Extravaganza will be October 10, 2010. The Mechanical Music Extravaganza is a collectibles show that features antique phonographs, cylinder records, disk records, parts, music boxes, and more. Please click the "MME" icon above for more information.

At right: Thomas Edison listening to a "Spectacle" phonograph circa the late 1880s. The spectacle phonograph was so named because the reproducer and the recorder were fitted in a frame that resembled a pair of eyeglasses, hence the name spectacle. The Spectacle phonograph was the result of an intense effort on the part of Edison in the late 1880s, after his ten year hiatus during which he invented the light bulb, to catch up to the advances in phonography that had been made by the Bell Tainter folks.