Phonograph Cabinet

To the average man, a phonograph or a graphaphone, or whatever name you many choose to call a talking machine, has passed from the luxury class into the necessity list, for there is no recreation better than music and no better instrument for giving to the average man this music than a phonograph. Those who purchase a small machine, the kind which rests on a table or stand, almost invariably have trouble in finding a place strong enough on which to place the instrument, although the table is generally used. But this has to be left clear of magazines, etc., or else a center table is pressed into service, and as a rule, the center table will be so flimsy that it will gyrate with the winding crank when the machine is being wound up. When the machine is wound up there is a hunt for the records. These are found in different places around the room or else piled high on the under shelf of the center table. If you are looking for a particular record or a certain kind of record, then the whole pile must be looked over and ten chances to one the required record is at the bottom of the pile. To obviate this confusion and unnecessary handling of the brittle records, I have designed this “phonograph cabinet” which can be made by any amateur craftsman who can lay out a piece of it to shape.