Agreed, just what I was thinking. Maybe if they plugged the feed going to the internal horn, they'd get a slightly louder signal out of the top horn, but the difference would've been negligible at best, considering the impetus of the futzing was to make it loud enough for outdoor whatever.
Best, r. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Bogantz" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 1:27 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Why Couldn't Edison Think of This? - THEY DID! > Aside from being an unwieldly thing to try to operate, this lashup > probably wouldn't have achieved the desired purpose. By adding a second > horn, the sound pressure from the reproducer is divided between the two > horns with the resultant sound pressure from the combined horn output > being about the same as it is from a single horn. So without some > additional changes to the design such as a different needle bar which > could have been made to have more mechanical gain, the goal of getting > more loudness from the player would not have been achieved. Constable > probably had enough experience with phonographs to know this. > > Greg Bogantz
