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Playing Pathé on Edison

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Can Pathé records be played on my Edison C-19,
I have the 78 adapter attachment.

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JAR wrote:Can Pathé records be played on my Edison C-19,
I have the 78 adapter attachment.

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You shouldn't play a Pathé record with either of these, unless you have a 78 adapter that can bet set to vertical reproduction, and a Pathé sapphire ball stylus.
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You need to have an adapter that is designed to play vertical cuts. Some of the lateral adapters have a swivel joint to allow the reproducer to swivel, but not all of them. Here's a thread about one such reproducer I own:

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... t=+adapter

Of course, you'll also need a Pathé stylus to play vertical cut Pathé discs.

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Yes my adapter swivels.

Is this what you are talking about: http://www.phonographs.org/store/n-119- ... p-161.html

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This is similar to what I have.
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Then, all you need is a sapphire ball stylus to play them...
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That depends on whether they are later, outside-start records, or the earlier, inside-start ones.

The latter will not work on an Edison, as the feedscrew must be engaged to play records.

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Lucius1958 wrote:That depends on whether they are later, outside-start records, or the earlier, inside-start ones.

The latter will not work on an Edison, as the feedscrew must be engaged to play records.

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With an adapter you do not need to engage the feedscrew to play records- The tracking won't be very good, but with a vertical cut disc tracking error is less of a problem

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how do you determine the outside-start records,from the earlier, inside-start ones?

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JAR wrote:how do you determine the outside-start records,from the earlier, inside-start ones?

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In general, If it has the pressed-in title (no paper label) and the titling is in French, it is center start.

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