The general opinion at the time I owned it was that it was one of a kind made by somebody who was demonstrating or selling something. The something may have been the make of cylinder or the song on the cylinder. It could have been in a music store and used to play cylinders that people wanted to hear before buying.
The other "something" that it might have been used for sticks out like the "sore thumb". The machinist made the whole piece without using any Edison parts so why would he just put a standard carriage on it and not make a brass one? Could it be that the purpose of this was to demonstrate some new type of reproducer? Did it have a very rare reproducer that was sold separate from the machine before I bought it? I don't know for sure. Remains a mystery. _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
