OMG, so many items combined that I love: Old (Sterling) Engine & 78 records. I now will always want one. I have my great-grandmother's 78 collection and her victrola, which she would play her records for me when I was 5 in her parlor. A few years back I got myself a Wurlitzer 1100 from my brother and I didn't think I'd ever see anything that I would want more than my jukebox.
You Hot air phonograph is beautiful, thank you for posting about it!