How to Get the Most Out of Your Victrola

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Sharon Handy

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Sink into slumber as we detail the musical miracle of the Victrola, "the world's greatest instrument," and dream of a distant world where music on demand is a life-changing novelty.

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0:00.0	Good evening and welcome to boring books for bedtime. I hope tonight's installment provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep for once.
0:16.0	So lie back, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath, and off we go.
0:25.0	Tonight selection comes by way of recommendation from one of our Patreon supporters.
0:31.0	We're reading How to get the most out of your Victor Talking Machine Company,
0:37.0	Camden, New Jersey, United States.
0:45.0	Copyright 1919.
0:49.3	Let's begin.
0:53.7	Victorla is the registered trademark of the Victor Talking Machine Company, designating the
0:59.3	products of this company only.
1:32.0	Note. Period. of this company only. Note, period victrolas are now obtainable in 12 of the principal types, namely Empire, Chippendale, Louis the 15th, Louis the 16th, Jacobian, Gothic, William and Mary, Adam, Sheridan, Chinese Jibendale, Queen Anne, Japanese Laker, and the Hebelwhite shown above.
1:35.2	There are also two other variations of each type which are available.
1:40.0	But in every case, period Victorrolas are made to order only.
1:47.2	How to get the most out of your victrola.
1:51.4	Today, when for the first time you have brought a Vichtrola into your home, we wish it were possible
1:58.4	to show you how much this, the most versatile and so the most satisfying musical instrument in all the world can be made
2:09.5	to entertain, to console, and to inspire.
2:14.8	To say that the Victrola offers you, your family, and your friends, all the music of all the world, is to dismiss the subject with an entirely inadequate
2:26.5	phrase and so this booklet has been prepared to offer certain suggestions for your greater enjoyment of this, your newest, and we
2:37.3	verily believe your happiest possession. Victor Records represent a moment of inspired achievement in the life of some great artist.
2:48.0	The skill, the art, and the atmosphere of the Metropolitan Opera House and the
2:54.4	concert halls of the world are brought into your home.
2:59.4	They are no longer things to be enjoyed only at great intervals on rare occasions. They may become
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