I'm pretty sure a 3 mil stylus will work on the Edisons and probably will work on the Pathe verticals. An LP stylus will probably work on the cylinders. It certainly won't hurt either the cylinder or the stylus to try.
Ron L -----Original Message----- From: phono-l-bounces at oldcrank.org [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jimcip at earthlink.net Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:40 PM To: Phono-L at oldcrank.org Subject: [Phono-L] Styli A friend has asked me to record electrically some of my vertical-cut Pathe records & I also want to record electrically Edison Diamond Discs & two & four-minute cylinders. I have sophisticated equipment for playing 78s electrically (for 17 years I produced a weekly show for the local FM station of Classical 78s) including a Packburn Noise Suppressor which has switch for playing vertical-cut recordings but I need styluses to play Pathe, Diamond Discs, & two & four-minute cylinders (using a Rabco tangential tracking arm & the mandrel & motor from an Amberola 30) that will fit either a Shure M44 cartridge, Shure M78S cartridge or Shure Model "V" cartridge If any of you all have had experience in electrically-reproducing vertical-cut records of various types & can advise me on sources for such styli I would greatly appreciate it. (I know of Expert Pickups in England but their prices are out of this world so I hope to find a more affordable source.0 Thanks! Jim Cartwright Immortal Performances jimcip at earthlink.net EarthLink Revolves Around You. _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
