Seven years ago the U. S. phonograph and record industry was so sick its own backers almost gave it up for dead. Today, it is not only up and around again; it has fattened into one of the fastest ...

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CENTRAL CITY — Scott Musil doesn’t just like old songs. He also likes to hear those tunes on the machines on which they were originally played. Musil, 38, is a collector of old phonographs. He ...