The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #138897   Message #3182931
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
07-Jul-11 - 04:53 AM
Thread Name: Steamfolk
Subject: RE: Steamfolk
I am in the market for a working gramophone with horn.

I'm sure I'm not the first to do it, but I recently wrote a passage in which one Bright Young Thing is using Two Gramophones to keep the music going continuously and scratching between the two with free-styled vocal accompaniment to accompany the debauched drug-fuelled antics of his upper-crust young chums in a remote Northumbrian Country House circa 1929... That's almost steampunk I guess!

It was CS that first mentioned it (who else?) and it chimed in my fondness for creaky Victorian technology (Santos Dumont was a childhood hero), HG Wells and Studio Ghibli cartoons (Howl's Moving Castle being a case in point).