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Borthwick's selections over the campaign have been getting more adventurous, but this was a crank-up of the curveball.

Mr. Cumella, who collects and repairs crank-up phonographs like Victrolas and has a collection of original Nora Bayes records, was hoping to add Ms. Bayes’s grave to a Woodlawn tour he conducts while using a portable antique turntable to play records of jazz and vaudeville greats at their grave sites.

With Kaymer leading by a million shots and Fox taking over the broadcast next year, why not crank-up the zaniness a few notches?

On Sundays, there was ballroom dancing around a crank-up gramophone.

You can grab a seat on the lawn to hear live recitations, along with music from 1900-25 played on period crank-up phonographs by Michael Cumella, a k a MAC, the program’s regular host.