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Fandango, v. 2, issue 4, whole no. 8, Spring 1945

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low score failed completely to answer my preconceived ideas on the subject. (I'd have guessed that it would be second choice.)
I muffed the question about the phonographs. I had in mind some vague idea about contrasting the number of automatic changers with manually operated---a rather pointless survey, perhaps, but this is a point I have debated at length with many record collectors. (I much prefer the non-automatic, manual machines.) As the question was worded, I reaped a harvest of trade-names, and shall not bother to tabulate them. My apologies. In passing, it is of interest to note that no less than three of the 25 have spring-operated, acoustic outfits. War shortages?
Of the 25, seventeen have phonographs; eight do not. Sixteen of the seventeen maintain record collections; the discrepancy is caused by Bill Watson, who trades records back in after becoming familiar with them...or something. He is the one who has a phonograph and no collection, at least; my interpretation is strictly extrapolated. 
Size of collection: (NY) 200, Searles 250, Koenig 200, Brown 250, (Medford, Ore.) 100, Swisher 250, Lowndes 500, Widner 150, de la Ree 80, Anderson 150-180, Davis 100, EEEvans 100, Laney 750. Average collection, then, is not quite 250 discs. (238, if you must know.)

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low score failed completely to answer my preconceived ideas on the subject. (I'd have guessed that it would be second choice.) I muffed the question about the phonographs. I had in mind some vague idea about contrasting the number of automatic changers with manually operated---a rather pointless survey, perhaps, but this is a point I have debated at length with many record collectors. (I much prefer the non-automatic, manual machines.) As the question was worded, I reaped a harvest of trade-names, and shall not bother to tabulate them. My apologies. In passing, it is of interest to note that no less than three of the 25 have spring-operated, acoustic outfits. War shortages? Of the 25, seventeen have phonographs; eight do not. Sixteen of the seventeen maintain record collections; the discrepancy is caused by Bill Watson, who trades records back in after becoming familiar with them...or something. He is the one who has a phonograph and no collection, at least; my interpretation is strictly extrapolated. Size of collection: (NY) 200, Searles 250, Koenig 200, Brown 250, (Medford, Ore.) 100, Swisher 250, Lowndes 500, Widner 150, de la Ree 80, Anderson 150-180, Davis 100, EEEvans 100, Laney 750. Average collection, then, is not quite 250 discs. (238, if you must know.)