don hunt on thu 17 oct 02
Since I work on phones and phone systems for a living, I could probably
have most any phone I want in my studio. So I have the kind with the
part you speak into on the body of the phone and the part you listen on
the cord. With no dial pad. It came out of a hotel, you flipped the
hookswitch a few times to get the cordboard operator who dialed your
number for you. Very cool, except it sounds terrrible! Very tinny and
echoy. Everyone complains once, until I explain, " Thats because when
I'm in my studio I don't want to talk to you" Now they just say, " Oh,
I see you're in your studio, so I'll let you alone." Sweet Victory.
Don Hunt
Millie Carpenter on thu 17 oct 02
One thing that I tried for a while was having a speaker phone (the cord
on the handle had to be held into the base in order for that to work,
that's why husband stuck it in my basement studio) eventually we found
that if you don't wipe the clay off your hands first, the speaker gets
clogged with clay. and taking a wet rag to it didn't help. I am back
to letting the answering machine pick up until my husband or daughter
decide to use my studio again as a hospice for phones on their last legs.
Millie in Md.
claybair wrote:
>Lili,
>
>I covered my phone in a plastic sandwich bag.
>Clay can be wiped off it without damaging the phone.
>That being said...nothing could repair the phone I dropped
>in a bucket of glaze...... hated that phone anyway!->
>
>Gayle Bair
>Bainbridge Island, WA
>http://claybair.com
>
Anji Henderson on fri 18 oct 02
Apparently this is not to foreign to have a difficult
phone in the studio to ward off callers... I have an
old phone from the 60's with a rotary dial, funny echo
that I cant hear, and lots of static, and looks like a
piece of green ware hanging on the wall...... :)
Anji
--- don hunt <bhunt@CWNET.COM> wrote:
> Since I work on phones and phone systems for a
> living, I could probably
> have most any phone I want in my studio. So I
have
> the kind with the
> part you speak into on the body of the phone and
the
> part you listen on
> the cord. With no dial pad. It came out of a
> hotel, you flipped the
> hookswitch a few times to get the cordboard
operator
> who dialed your
> number for you. Very cool, except it sounds
> terrrible!
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Alexis Lynn Evans on fri 18 oct 02
I didn't see all the messages on this thread but I wrapped each part of
my throwing studio phone in handy wrap and it keeps the dust and mud
from caking too badly. I use the speakerphone button and tone of my
voice and the message usually comes across if I'm involved....good we
have answering machines.
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Russel Fouts on sat 19 oct 02
Don,
>> Since I work on phones and phone systems for a living, I could probably have most any phone I want in my studio. So I have the kind with the part you speak into on the body of the phone and the part you listen on the cord. With no dial pad. It came out of a hotel, you flipped the hookswitch a few times to get the cordboard operator who dialed your number for you. Very cool, except it sounds terrrible! Very tinny and echoy. Everyone complains once, until I explain, " Thats because when I'm in my studio I don't want to talk to you" Now they just say, " Oh, I see you're in your studio, so I'll let you alone." Sweet Victory. <<
You mean that when you turn the crank, an operator STILL ANSWERS!?!? Are
you sure your studio isn't in a time-warp?
That's great idea though! But I like mine from 1942 and 46 too much to
get clay all over them. Got them at the local fleamarket; cast-iron
bodies, bakelite handset, very heavy and a wonderful ring. Friends claim
I sound like I'm calling from WWII.
Russel
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