now the name credenza came from the fact that the word credenza, if you look in the dictionary, simply piece of furniture. so that's why they called this credenza, because it looked like a nice piece of furniture in your home. and this was a, this is a very, very popular machine for collectors. now, as i wind it up, i'm first going to play a record done acoustically known as the light cal cavalry overture number one. and i'm going to play a sample of this, and then we'll compare it to the same recording done orphophonically. now you have to get to a special momentum of 70 rpms. i'll lower the needle down to the groove and play a very short sample. ♪ >> now that was a sample of the recording done, again, mechanically. now i'm now going to play a sample of it done electrically, and also on the label, the customer would know it was done electrically, because there would be a v.e. stamped on the base of the label. okay. now these machines would have cost the customer an average of $300, which you can well imagine during that time period was quite a lot of money. but this was a very, very p

. ♪ i will's close the doors, also, the credenza has something very special. sides for storage of recordings, which was very important for the customer. but this was an extra little perk. you could close the lid and it would close hydraulically. there you go. this was the cred depp za. again, from 1925 until 1928. and they produced approximately 14,000 of these in those few years. >> another thing that we do here is talk about the story of nipper, the -- his master's voice dog. and there's all kinds of good, funny things to talk about this dog. he was a very clever dog. but he arguably has become the symbol for the sound industry in general. that was johnson's doing. he was a real dog a bull terrier, a little fox terrier mixed in and his owner, mark barode, was an artist and he did scenic landscapes. his older brother, francis, however, painted. he was so touched by nipper listening with a puzzled look on his face at some of the music that was being played in his brother's house. so, he decided to paint nipper with his coxed ear. the image that we all know so