Just throwing this out there as a newbie to cylinder purchases myself... John, did you mean something more along the lines of issue numbers and series? I know I surely can't tell cylinder groove pitch from a low-quality jpeg taken from 3 or 4 ft away, and (estate) sellers who sell groups of cylinders per lot often take a picture from 6 ft away of a stack of cylinders in and out of cases! There are sellers who take such fabulous pictures, there's no way to mistake 2- and 4-minute, but those sellers are usually thorough enough to include 2- or 4- in their descriptions.
Here's what I (think I) know so far: all brown wax cylinders are 2-minute and all Blue Amberolas are 4-minute... right? And Indestructibles have 2M or 4M printed on the edge with the title... right? Can someone help us out? I'm probably doing more harm than good! I've been wanting to ask this for a while myself. Thanks, John, and thanks in advance to anyone kind enough to fill in the holes! Best to all, Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron L'Herault" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] identifying 2min or 4 min records > If you can compare two known cylinders a 2 and a 4 minute, you will see that > the 4 minute recordings have a much finer groove. Once you have got that in > you mind, you can tell from looking. > > Ron L > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of John Keister > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 3:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Phono-L] identifying 2min or 4 min records > > > Hey, everybody, > there are lots of cylinder records available on e-bay but the sellers don't > know if the records are 2 minute or 4 minute. my question is, how can you > tell the difference? gold moulded, blue amberol, etc. > John > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/ > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/ >
