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See, this is what you get when you waste half yr life tripping over European tabletop wooden sets in Aunty-Que shops. I have Blaupunkts, Telefunkens, SABAS, a Nordemende, & a Polish Diora. It is the exception to the rule-Of the German sets, they ALL had that "Mile-deep" high glass like sheen finish to themselves, & quite a few had very complicated pushbutton power on/off switching schemes. But leave it to Der Krauts to needlessly overcomplicate something, right ?!?I'm thinking quite a few were brought home by otherwise clueless GIs who didn't know-or remember OUR FM band went to 108. But, these sets ARE right pretty, they DO play quite well-often w/far fewer Tooobs that our homegrown AM/FM sets do. The Germans apparently were partial to big, honking radios-Well, THAT seemed to be an affliction all over Yoorup- They were big & impressive looking, but you looked 'round back, up its dress-and you'd find a dinky little chassis w/just 4,5, or maybe 6 tooobs... But from the front the set looked like something King Kong might have tried to climb..
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