Just picked this sweet machine up and have some questions:
1. Would do you think the cabinet is made of?
2. It did not come with a vertical sapphire stylus; are these on eBay okay to use on this machine?
"Sapphire ball stylus needle 78rpm Pathé vertical hill & dale, new old stock"
Newly Acquired: Pathé' Actuelle Model H
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Re: Newly Acquired: Pathé' Actuelle Model H
Beautiful American walnut cabinet. Congratulations!
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Re: Newly Acquired: Pathé' Actuelle Model H
You can use a Pathé type sapphire stylus to play Pathé and other vertical cut records, a diamond stylus to play Edison Diamond Disc records or steel needles to play standard lateral cut 78s.
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Re: Newly Acquired: Pathé' Actuelle Model H
Don't forget to rotate the cone and needle chuck when you want to play vertical or lateral records and make sure you have the correct "needle" in place for the type of record you want to play. Beautiful cabinet!! Mine is plain old dark mahogany. MarkCurt A wrote:You can use a Pathé type sapphire stylus to play Pathé and other vertical cut records, a diamond stylus to play Edison Diamond Disc records or steel needles to play standard lateral cut 78s.
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Re: Newly Acquired: Pathé' Actuelle Model H
Walnut is beautiful. I have a model H red mahogany. I had never noticed the H. But still your bottom doors look different then mine. Your machine is grand! Neil
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Re: Newly Acquired: Pathé' Actuelle Model H
What a cool machine, in great condition too!