The Phonogram (1901-02)

Page scan 0002 from The Phonogram

Record Details:

Title:
The Phonogram
Date:
1901-02
Volume:
The Phonogram (II), Issue 10
Leaf #:
0002
Language:
English
Subjects:
honograph,"Phonograph History, Thomas Edison","National Phonograph Company","Sound Recording History
Collection:
Recorded Sound
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 20, 2022
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The PHONOGRAM VOL. II POINTS PERTAINING TO THE USE AND CARE OF THE EDISON PHONOGRAPH. By C. W. Noyes. Chapter II. Adjusting the Reproducer . A poorly adjusted reproducer always tends toward discour- aging the purchaser of a Phonograph, and no wonder. A poor glass with its squeaky, thin, nasal tone is fer from musical, just the same as a badly tuned musical instru- ment is offensive to the musical ear. Now it is taken for granted that a person who spends his money for a Phonograph is naturally a lover of music, and if the instrument is not musical it is sometimes con- demned. “Look to your reproducer.** Is it as good as any you have heard? If it is, let it alone! If not, then follow the directions given below. In the first place let me state right here; that nothing is better than a glass diaphragm. No paper, mica, fibre, metal or composition diaphragm can compare with glass. You may take any of the above mentioned materials and insert them in place of the glass you are now using and they may be considerably better, but this only demonstrates beyond a doubt the feet that your glass diaphragm is not the proper size. Glasses vary in thickness from .003 to .009 of an inch, and no two sizes produce the same tone; so you see there is quite a field for experiment as to the size glass which is especially adapted to your reproducer. Copyright 1901, by Herbert A. Shattuck.