I just added an Edison GEM phonograph to my collection. Since I've never owned or operated one, I was surprised to find that it runs at two speeds.
When the control knob is pushed in to the first click, it plays 2 minute wax cylinders perfectly and at the correct speed. When I press it in all of the way, it runs faster. Too fast for 2 or 4 minute cylinders. Were these machines set up to play another type of cylinder? I thought at first it might be a 2/4 minute setup. That doesn't seem to be the case. Will someone please enlighten me? Thanks in advance for your help. Tom From [email protected] Tue Feb 8 14:47:51 2005 From: [email protected] (Tim) Date: Sun Dec 24 13:10:06 2006 Subject: [Phono-L] Edison GEM question References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Message-ID: <000601c50e30$382efdf0$ef9a5...@toshibauser> make sure you have all the gears on the part that slides on the carriage shaft. There should be 2 small gears and another larger gear with one along side of it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Jordan" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:56 PM Subject: [Phono-L] Edison GEM question > I just added an Edison GEM phonograph to my collection. Since I've never owned or operated one, I was surprised to find that it runs at two speeds. > > When the control knob is pushed in to the first click, it plays 2 minute wax cylinders perfectly and at the correct speed. When I press it in all of the way, it runs faster. Too fast for 2 or 4 minute cylinders. > > Were these machines set up to play another type of cylinder? I thought at first it might be a 2/4 minute setup. That doesn't seem to be the case. > > Will someone please enlighten me? > Thanks in advance for your help. > Tom > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/
