Looks like a homemade sound dampener to me; those little Columbia's can get pretty loud.
Loran On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Joe Prindle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I took some additional photos of the soundbox and posted them. If the > cylindrical contraption is a user modification, they did a nice job of > bending the needle bar without breaking it. > Thanks, > Joe > > --- On Mon, 7/5/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Yankee Prince Phonograph > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, July 5, 2010, 5:32 PM > > > That soundbox is correct for this model of YP--- bigger in diameter, with a > thumbscrew, and damaskeening behind the diaphragm. That cylindrical > contraption attached to the needle bar is nothing I've ever seen and seems to > me to be a home handyman adaptation. If anyone else needs pillars like that, > let me know, I'm thinking of getting some made. Or perhaps someone has > already done it?? > > > Cheers, TF. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
