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Quite a nice looking machine! If you plan to play a Pathé, please first get a sapphire ball stylus. If you play a Pathé vertical cut (or one of the Pathé system imitators, like Rex or Rishell) with a steel needle, you'll destroy it. Same story for Edison diamond discs. There were some steel needle type vertical records, but they tend to be hard to find. If you're just curious about vertical cut, and not too particular about the music, I think a couple of modestly priced Lyric records are on eBay right now. OKeh and Aeolian Vocalion verticals were also needle cut, but they seldom turn up; the corresponding laterals are what you'll normally find, and when you do see them the verticals tend to be pricey.78recordpicker wrote:Thanks OrthoFan! Fantastic info. I'll have to give a try to play a Pathé to see how the tone arm plays verticals. I did buy it. Here it is:
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drh
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The last time I tried to play an OKeh vertical with a steel needle (with an adaptor on my C250), I saw the grooves getting damaged as it started to play. I don't know whether there is some problem with the adaptor in vertical mode, or what...drh wrote:Quite a nice looking machine! If you plan to play a Pathé, please first get a sapphire ball stylus. If you play a Pathé vertical cut (or one of the Pathé system imitators, like Rex or Rishell) with a steel needle, you'll destroy it. Same story for Edison diamond discs. There were some steel needle type vertical records, but they tend to be hard to find. If you're just curious about vertical cut, and not too particular about the music, I think a couple of modestly priced Lyric records are on eBay right now. OKeh and Aeolian Vocalion verticals were also needle cut, but they seldom turn up; the corresponding laterals are what you'll normally find, and when you do see them the verticals tend to be pricey.78recordpicker wrote:Thanks OrthoFan! Fantastic info. I'll have to give a try to play a Pathé to see how the tone arm plays verticals. I did buy it. Here it is:
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My okeh verticals play well with steel needles, you might have had an alignment problemLucius1958 wrote:
The last time I tried to play an OKeh vertical with a steel needle (with an adaptor on my C250), I saw the grooves getting damaged as it started to play. I don't know whether there is some problem with the adaptor in vertical mode, or what...
Bill