"Wings" begins with a jaunty jazz-age ditty about "the new daredevils of the sky," playing on an old Victrola.

The music was growing louder with every second, much louder than an old Victrola could ever have made it; in fact, painfully loud.

His voice vibrated off an old Victrola vaulted in my head.

Toying with his mother's old Victrola had shown him that changing the speed of a recording could alter both pitch and timbre.

"You will get them whennnnnn," Glimmung began to say, but again the old Victrola became unwound; the record slowed to a halt.

All that's missing is Lemora preparing a candlelight dinner with a Luther Vandross record playing on the old Victrola.

She said that at night before bedtime, her husband had often played it, or asked her to play it, on an old Victrola in their bedroom.

In the Junkyard Band, he plays a trombone made out of plumbers' pipe and a morning glory horn from an old Victrola.

And remember that old Victrola, the one with the little lion feet and the horn decorated with flowers?

There's an old Victrola on the floor.