In a message dated 10/31/10 9:10:49 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
This particular adapter I've been watching for a while. It's been up there several months at that price and the seller has yet to lower it to try and move it. It interests me as Empire was one of the vertical cut brands of the teens that I'm researching although I'm not interested at that price. The Empire Talking Machine Company produced both phonographs and had both vertical and universal cut records. A separate and related entity, Empire Phono Parts Company, produced universal tonearms but I've never seen any documentation that matches this particular tonearm. In fact, anything I've seen only advertises the universal tonearm with never a mention of an Edison adapter. However, I don't have any documentation after Empire's records stopped and Empire Phono kept going for a number of years so it's possible this product came out after 1921. The reproducer clearly is an Empire and it does look like everything matches so would assume it's a complete Empire product. Does anyone have any Empire literature that shows this? Thanks, Glenn Hi Glenn, I just acquired an Edison DD machine which came with an interesting reproducer. In addition to the standard Edison reproducer there was included another which would play 78s. It is not an "Empire" but is called an "Oro-Phone". It was made by the "Oro-Tone" company of Chicago and appears to be able to play BOTH vertically and laterally recorded records. It takes steel needles for either. It rotates in such a way as to use different needle holes for the two types of 78s. Very wierd. ---Art Heller _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
