Shyvers' Multiphone Jukebox Competitor from the Thirties thru the Fifties w/key For Sale
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Shyvers' Multiphone Jukebox Competitor from the Thirties thru the Fifties w/key:
$1300.00
Sometimes you find theseunder either ART DECO or JUKEBOX listings but a more apt description might beto refer to it as the true pre-cursor to Napster, Spotify or Pandora.
Is it a jukebox? Is it aradio? Is it a telephone? It’s none of those and yet, it’s all of them. Just asyou might call in to a disc jockey to request a tune to be played on the radio,the Shyvers’ MULTIPHONE is connected via telephone wires to a room full offemale disc jockeys in Seattle who are surrounded by a vast record library and amultitude of turntables.
The customer chooses themusic selection from an array of over 200 tunes, inserts a given number ofcoins and speaks to his very own “disc jockey” who retrieves the chosen recordsand plays them on her turntable with the sound traveling over the telephoneline to the speaker located within the bottom of the Multiphone. At a time whenmost jukeboxes offered only 24 selections, this unique device (primarily placedon the counters or in booths of luncheonettes) competed handily with Wurlitzer,Seeburg, Rockola and other jukebox manufacturers.
A very detailed list ofinstructions is given to each operator for the primary purpose of teaching herhow to retrieve, play and return a record without chipping it or scratching it.The most ludicrous of these include:
“Smile when you appear onmicrophone.”
“Don’t be sarcastic or sharpover the mikes…”
“Don’t play free records forany favorite location or friend.”
“Don’t under anyconsideration cheapen yourself or this business by making dates over thissystem.”
This unit accepts dimes andthe listed 200 songs indicate it was used in the fifties. Made of castaluminum, it is 17” tall and very heavy.
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