Good Vibrations jukebox restorations

27/02/2025

Now here’s something you don’t see every day. It’s a quite rare Rowe-AMI / Canteen HBE-200 Background Music System. These were built from 1960 to 1962. Not very glamourous, but apparently, just about a hand full of these units are known having survived the scraphammer.
It is a background music system for factories, shopping centers, restaurants etc. It has a unique continue playing mechanism which plays every record one after another, based on an AMI Continental 2 mech.

When you fill it with 100 of the original Customusic Library records it plays 600 tunes. These records play at 33 rpm and have three songs on each side. Every now and then these records appear on eBay.

This unit is in very original ‘barn-find’ but good restorable condition and will be auctioned by the Dutch Auction Company on Saturday, March 22, 2025.

18/02/2024

I never realised Rock-Ola’s have special slots for mono records. 🤭

01/02/2024

Here’s the Selectophone in operation.

01/02/2024

Well, that was interesting. The discreet restoration of a very early 1934 Seeburg Selectophone. Discreet, meaning keeping everything as original as possible, although structural work on the cabinet couldn't be avoided. This Seeburg had been worked on in the past and was then put on display only. The mech is quite unique and much fun to see it in operation. Castings turned out to be very brittle so it needed a lot of careful attention to get it un-gummed and moving again. Honorable job, to work on a Seeburg as old as this.

21/12/2023

One of the last projects to be finished before the end of the year. This lovely original AMI finally needed a technical overhaul. And that after only 65 years of playing and so far only being serviced. Now, with every availabe upgrade fitted it’s ready for another 65 years. At least.

15/11/2023

Sometimes you run into a little nice private collection. 😉

18/10/2023

03/10/2023

And again, a beautiful Duke Of Juke / Good Vibrations co-production. Ready just in time for Rosmalen. See you all next weekend!

22/08/2023

Sometimes a restorer’s life sucks.
Quite a bit.

Update: remarkably funny comments by my friends and customers! Thanks. I’m okay now.

14/08/2023

Well this was a very special job. This very V200 was the one that started it all...

Imagine me, 1988, not yet aware of my latently present love for jukeboxes, visiting a friend's house for the first time. Climbing up the stairs, entering his living room, and there it was: This Seeburg V200 in all it's shiny glory!
From there on things went really fast. I learned about all the different jukeboxes, about people putting them in their houses, where to buy and how to restore them.

Now back to 2023: I run my own business in restoring the most beautyful jukeboxes in the world. And this V200, which I never lost out of sight, needed a thorough service. (Only 36 years after the late Frits Aalders serviced it. 😄) It was a pleasure and an honor to work on this V200 which turned out to play such an important role in my life!

By the way: This is now the first Seeburg in the Netherlands equipped with Victory Glass' brand new amplifier!