All Edison LP
> records had 450tpi grooves, and required a special "Edisonic"
> reproducer to play them.  Edison offered both special console
> phonographs and conversion kits to play these records. The LP records
> were a failure because they often skipped and repeated during play. I
> think they were withdrawn from the product line around 1927.
>
> -Phil

Just nit-picking, but the Long Play reproducer and the Edisonic were two
different items. The two Edisonic machines were an effort to modernize the
line and compete with the Orthophonic.
Eric


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