[Phono-L] Edison Diamond Disc size

[Bruce Mercer]

Many years ago I asked Walter Welch what the conical tip size was for the 
DD. He informed me ot was .0075. I wrote it down inside the back cover of my 
then new copy of  Tinfoil to Stereo.
Bruce M. 


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Re: [Phono-L] Edison Diamond Disc size

[Ron L'Herault]

I think I erred in my previous post about the stylus.  The tip is 0.0035
radius  The of .0075 is for the shaft of the stylus.

Ron

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Many years ago I asked Walter Welch what the conical tip size was for the 
DD. He informed me ot was .0075. I wrote it down inside the back cover of my

then new copy of  Tinfoil to Stereo.
Bruce M. 

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[Phono-L] Edison drops a title

[DanKj]

I was playing some cylinders (bought at a show, and sitting ever since in the brown grocery bags I used to pack them) and 
came across one which struck me as familiar.  The Jass One-Step, by Eugene Jaudas' orchestra on Edison BA 3228.  'Hmm... 
why do I know this tune?  Nobody else recorded such a title ... wait a second.'  I search for Jaudas online  (there is 
little to nothing about him, btw) and hit the same record on online ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVuZXjOk42g ) .  Then I 
remember:  I have this on a smallish hill  dale disc ... it's HONG KONG !


 Somewhere between it being rejected for disc but approved for cylinder, then prepared for manufacture, somebody mistook 
the description Jazz One-Step or Jass One-Step for its title , and dropped HONG KONG completely.  I submitted a comment 
to that effect, on the ootoob page. I wonder if this has happened with other tunes, being issued with wrong title (or no 
title really, in this case) and not pulled off the shelves.



ps - the 1910 Census had him listed as Judas, but got his father (I assume) correct as Jaudas. I submitted a correction. 
128 East 86th St, 40 years old in 1910, born in New York, parents born in Germany and arrived in USA 1863. Married 4 years, 
no children. Aunt  Mother-in-Law living with them (that must have been fun) , parents in the next apartment in same 
building.  Occupation: Musician. Industry: Phonograph.   Out of work in 1909: Zero days.


Interesting that his parents were still working at age 71: dad for the NYC Police Dept, mom a professional midwife. 


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