Washing Machine Museum - dryer

[Matthewsmollen4]

How Dry I Am.

How Dry I Am.

Nobody Knows, How Dry I Am.

Hooowwww Dryyyyyy IIIIII Ammmmm.

[DrDaveBilliards]

@Matthewsmollen4

Good summary! :)

[Matthewsmollen4]

@DrDaveBilliards thanks

[maynard7777]

We had this clothes dryer when I was a little boy in the 1960's. It's so cool to see one that still works. I remember when the dryer finally broke down, my father took out the little automatic xylophone inside, and we could make it play by hooking it up to the model train transformer.

[DrDaveBilliards]

@maynard7777

That's a great story. Thank you for sharing it.

Every time somebody reminds me about this video, I end up humming "How Dry I Am" the whole rest of the day. My wife loves it!! :)

[tigerssixty]

My Grandmother had this. Seems of the 3 of us I'm the only one who recalls it.

[SpiritMusician]

Cool, my parents just showed me our (old~) wine bottle that kind of looks like an oil lamp that sings how dry i am everytime you pick it up to pour (after you turn the key, that is) I'm hoping to do my business project on it.

[ALANSWEETIES99]

WOW amazing is America style of dryer-machine! That's Very Wonderful.

[italobambino43]

Amazing ingenuity, today we pride ourselves on how technically advanced we have become! Well, show me something made today that would compare to a dryer like that? If I'm not mistaken, Westi front load washers weighed your load of clothes via the lid, and then adjusted the water level and detergent accordingly! Sunbeam toasters that lowered the bread automaticaly, Proctor Silex coffee percolators with lights in side, appliances have become so boring today!

[dorisjaffe]

@italobambino43 And they're no longer made in America. Shameful!

[yeksrub]

I'm from Mansfield Ohio where that was made. Dad workd there(Westinghouse) in the QC dept. Dad would talk about the How Dry I Am clothes dryer The chime bars were purchased from a outside source.The bars were sampled for the correct note with a Conn Strobotuner.That is the first time I ever heard one!

[DrDaveBilliards]

Thanks for the info. I'm glad you finally got to hear one.

[italobambino43]

@yeksrub

Mansfield Ohio for Westinghouse and Bridgeport Connecticut for G-E were both very busy places for the Appliance industry! I have ran across other small appliances that were made in Mansfield Ohio to!

[homargc]

My father-in-law told me about having, as a kid (he's 72) a clothes dryer at home that played "How dry I am", once it would finish its task. I was inclined to take his claim with a grain of salt, in view of our pragmatic, plain, and aiming for silence modern appliances. I just found this clip, and he was elated at seeing the old musical Westinghouse machine. He feels vindicated!

[DrDaveBilliards]

That's a great story. Thanks.

[can8dan]

my mom reminded us she used to have when when we were little. They should bring this back.

[ufoengines]

We had an old Westinghouse dryer that had a buzzer that sounded like the warning horn for the start of WW III.

Ah... the 1960's

When my dad had the thing hauled off, I was kinda sad to see it go.

[italobambino43]

@ufoengines

I recall my Grandmothers Brown 1965 Lady Kenore washer, I loved the fluorescent light on the top, the little..cycle indicator lights, the white porcelain basket and the black Roto-Swirl agitator with removable measuring cup! If that washer span out of balance, a buzzer would sound and the washer shut off. Nothing like that today! Oh, yeah they finally make them with a feature that redistributes the load, yipee! Took em how long for that?

[bratto14]

LOL - My mom had one of these - we used to driver her crazy opening and closing it just to hear it sing. 'How dry I am How dry I am nobody knows how dry I am'... when we got a little older we changed the words a bit 'how dry I am how wet i'll be if I don't find a place to p**'

[Saftige]

My grandma used to have one of these and I loved doing clothes for her just so I could hear the song! haha

[peugteobike]

How many of these did maytag make ?where can I find one

[DrDaveBilliards]

Lee might know. You can contact him via the link in the video description.

[giordanosegata]

Is it old, Very old?

[hlehrer]

I have the exact machine. Anyone interested in buying it? Live in Ohio.

[HunterMann]

Did you ever sell this dryer? I'll be driving my van through Ohio this summer and would like to see it. I guess summer is clothesline weather anyway, huh? -Hunter Mann

[ajb221]

how dry i am, how wet ill be if i dont find the bathroom key!

[Shane1163]

oh wow I never seen one like that before, I think that would get pretty annoying if you can't turn that off..

[trismoe]

mine only plays once. . .no time to be annoying :)

[peugteobike]

I would Love to have one of these

[trismoe]

Don't know if this was a regular song, but as a child, we sang the ditty, "How dry I am; how wet I'll be; if I don't find the bathroom key!"

[trismoe]

As a young repairman in the late 70's, my husband repaired an old dryer that played this song. He asked the owner to please contact him if she ever decided to replace the machine, so that he could have the musicbox. A couple of years later she did. . and he did. I have had that musicbox attached to each and all of my dryers since that time. It never ceases to fascinate any and all who have heard it. As long as it continues to function, it will be attached to my dryer ;) T

[gusbaker4u]

I heard Amy Winehouse has one of these in her home.

[DrDaveBilliards]

Funny! I bet you're right.

[Renatodonadio]

It has the same chords of "By the rivers of Babylon" by Bob Marley

[cmarlow480]

how dry I am? was that a song in the 50s or something?

I wonder how it plays the sound is there like a xylophone in the bottom that causes that to happen?

lol and wouldnt that annoy someone to have to hear that EVERYTIME the load is done and you open it to hear that or is that only a thing that happens while running?

[DrDaveBilliards]

I think the song is even older than the 50s, but I'm not sure.

The song is created by a music-box type mechanism.

Dr. Dave

[orangie84]

It is much much older..

And seems to have a strange history..

Google search it..

But as for what I know its from a song actually called "The Near Future" by Irving Berlin which he wrote in 1919..

(But according to wikipedia it could be earlier..)

You also heard it a lot in cartoons from that era

[acmecate]

I like it...good job.