I assembled one of these kits a few months back. The instructions were in Japanese only, but the illustrations were enough to get me through the assembly, and one of the sellers has translated the later part of the manual which includes experiments on changing the geometry of the soundbox. I have not yet tried recording with it, which you can do using a plastic substrate (like a CD you don't mind wrecking, or one of those red Edison dictation blanks you can find on eBay) and a groove guide. It comes with some bamboo needles and a cutter, the needles work well on 78s but I haven't tried them on 45s or 33s, though the kit will let you play records at those speeds by gearing the turntable.
Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Kocsis" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 9:04 AM Subject: [Phono-L] A new twist on a ****ophone > Have you seen this? No **** insult intended, I think it's kind of neat > :-) >
