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The Phonogram (1901-01)

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Record Details:

Title:
The Phonogram
Date:
1901-01
Volume:
The Phonogram (II), Issue 21
Leaf #:
0007
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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li ! ! 40 THE PHONOGRAM - Mr. Editor :— f I am always trying how I can ( / 4 X \ improve my Phonograph and I ( ^ \ 1 have found that if the reproducer A \P J ball is kept in perfect order that ^ -V / fine results are obtainable. Think- J ing that my experiments may be of some use to Phonogram read- ers I will tell you all about it. I have a home-made burnisher, consisting of a number of chamois rings about the size of a quarter dollar. I use five or six such rings with smaller pieces of hard leather on either side. I tack them together firmly with small tacks of the proper length and then punch a hole in the centre of about the size of the spindle of the bobbin winder on a sewing machine. I slip this home-made attachment on the spindle instead of the bobbin and I have a fine foot power burnisher. By its aid I can polish the stylus per. fectly and it is really sun vising how much clearer and louder the record will sound when the stylus is highly polished. It goes without saying that the lever arm must be perfectly free to more up and down. The sketch shows the general make-up of my burnisher. “A** shows the chamois rings and “ B** the hard leather rings with tacks and hole in centre. Yours truly, E. E. Mkuckr. THE PHONOGRAPH WITH PICTURES. Long ago Mr. Edison suggested that it would be pracdc le to utilize the Phonograph in connection with pictures d two or three ideas of this kind have been patent*