>Try ebay. > > >---- Original Message ---- >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: [Phono-L] Recorder Question & >Edison Birthday Celebration Invitation >Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 17:45:27 +0000 > >>Where do I get them? >> >>Steve >> >>From: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Recorder Question & Edison Birthday >Celebration Invitation >>To: [email protected] >>Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:18:15 +0000 >> >>sounds like a job for silicone tipped forceps. Ron L From: Antique >Phonograph List [mailto:[email protected]] >>Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 4:39 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Recorder Question & Edison Birthday >Celebration Invitation Hello Jim, >> >>Back in 1905 when you purchased an Edison recorder it was new, being >new it most likely moved freely. I say this because I have come >across recorders where I have had to sand with 2000 grit sandpaper to >get them to move freely. 2 minute recorders are relatively stable, >with four minute recorders you have to have the flap fit perfectly or >they will not track properly. I had one recorder that the sound >transfer tube got stuck near the top because the sound tube was too >small to allow it to move freely. >> >>Some people get lucky, one of the people who record commercially >told me his recorder was as found and worked perfectly. Another did >work on his. >> >>There are several things that make a recorder weak. The first is a >chipped stylus and the chips do not have to be large. You have to >look down on the contact side not into the cupped hole with a 30X >loupe. It takes experience to spot a bad one with small chips out of >the sapphire. >> >>Next is the flap, the flap must move freely. The sound transfer >tube must move freely. The mica has to be good. The sapphire cutter >has to be cocked up at the correct angle. >> >>Recorder styli are a challenge to rotate because metal tweezers can >damage the sapphire and plastic ones will melt. >> >>Steve >> From: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Recorder Question & Edison Birthday >Celebration Invitation >>To: [email protected] >>Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:59:49 +0000Are you warming your blanks >before/during recording process? How thick is the diaphragm on the >recorder? Is there a gasket underneath it(i.e. between the diaphragm >and the body of the reproducer. Is the diaphragm waxed in place? >Does the little tube inside the reproducer neck move up and down >easily to help maintain a reasonably tight air path? When you >inspect the cutter with a magnifying glass, does it look sharp and >feel sharp? Nice blanks can be purchased from Shawn Borri. Ron L >From: Antique Phonograph List [mailto:[email protected]] >>Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:40 PM >>To: 'Antique Phonograph List' >>Subject: [Phono-L] Recorder Question & Edison Birthday Celebration >Invitation As part of what has become Immortal Performances annual >Thomas A. Edison Birthday Celebration on the 11th of February to >which Central Texas antique phonograph collectors are invited I am >planning to record wax cylinders of a few of Austins very best jazz >musicians. However, results obtained with an Edison Triumph Model B >phonograph with end gate & unencumbered by four-minute gearing, an >1890s 3 ft. conical horn & an Edison Recorder have been >disappointing. The baby grand Steinway with conical horn pointing >right into lid was weak & a cellist playing quite loudly with end of >horn less than a foot from the instruments f holes was also very >weak. Only with my head right at the mouth of the horn & singing >loud in a quasi operatic voice was I able to make a recording of >suitable audibility. The local antique phonograph repairman was >able to acoustically dub a 78 played on a Victor VI using smaller >horn pointing into the recording horn with fair results. The jazz >musicians would probably include clarinet/saxophone/bass saxophone >(hopefully channeling Adrian Rollini, my favorite jazz artist), >trumpet, trombone, tuba & percussion with piano used if it can be >recorded. Would like to have used a fine string bass player but am >pretty sure his efforts would not register at all. Would anyone have >suggestions for tweeking the Edison two-minute Recorder to obtain >optimum results? Would anyone have an excellent recorder for sale? > Would anyone have old Dictaphone cylinders for sale which could be >cut off & shaved down to record on? In the Edison American >Experience documentary shown here on PBS yesterday evening, an 1890s >film clip was shown of a violinist playing into a recording horn from >at least a foot from its mouth. Lionel Mapleson recorded fragments >of actual Metropolitan Opera performances between 1901 & 1903 on an >Edison cylinder phonograph.If the recorder Mapleson used was a weak >as mine, he would have gotten absolutely nothing even with his >gigantic recording horn situated many yards from the performers yet >we know he caught an amazing lot. Therefore, the problem must be >with my Recorder. The Edison Birthday Celebration will begin at 6:00 >P.M. on the 11th of February 2015 & will take place at my home >located at 1404 West 30th Street, Austin, Texas 78703-1402. My >phone number is (512) 478-9954. Please let me know if you plan to >attend. It should be fun, especially if the jazz musicians attend & >I get the Recorder functioning properly! Jim CartwrightImmortal >Performances, Inc.1404 West 30th StreetAustin, Texas 78703-1402(512) >478-9954 Jim CartwrightIMMORTAL PERFORMANCES, INCAustins Eclectic >Used Record Store Since 19711404 West 30th Street Austin, Texas >78703-1402 USA(512) 478-9954 E-mail: [email protected] > > >> >>
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