What’s New at Merry Tunes Antique Radios

COVID-19 INFORMATION

We appreciate your order and will do our best to get it to you as quickly as possible. We ask that you be mindful of the impact that Covid-19 continues to have on shipping and delivery services.

Each point of contact has  its challenges, whether the post office, sorting centre, border services and the unique situations in each province, state and country.  Our experience is that deliveries that would usually take 5-7 business days are sometimes taking upwards of 3-4 weeks.  If this is a concern to you,  we urge you to  track your parcel when choosing your shipping .

We ship Monday-Thursday only.

What’s New? 

Grille Cloth Patterns

We have recently added a few new grille cloths to the parts store in a variety of formats. We are very pleased with our finds and hope they will excite you too.

Grille cloth is a key component to affect the look of a vintage radio. When production of iconic and signature grille cloth patterns ended about a decade ago it sent all collectors into a tizzy. How would it be possible to restore an antique to its former glory without the custom grille cloth patterns?

We, at Merry Tunes, deal with that question daily with repairs, restorations, collections and the parts store. We exhaust all known avenues to source fabrics that best reflect the stunning grille cloth patterns of the past. It’s not easy and it is time consuming. We compare the new fabrics to the original cloths taken from antique radios in our collection before any purchase. Every now and again, we stumble across a fabric containing the iconic colours, shapes or symbols of the past. When we do, we scoop it up, knowing it won’t be there next time. Every cloth we offer has been carefully chosen to emulate some aspect of the grille cloths of the past.

The Staff at Merry Tunes

08/2021