How were bamboo gramophone needles actually made ?

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How were bamboo gramophone needles actually made ?

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I assume that they were not made individually by hand as this process would have been too slow etc.

So, if there was a (semi) automatic production line how was this done exactly I wonder ?

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There must have been some kind of automated device, but many were made by hand: I've read that during slack periods in the sales day employees of the EMG store were sent to the basement to split needles. This seems to have happened most during WWII and after when commercial supplies dwindled

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This is the only image of a machine that I've encountered...
http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... 73&p=87798

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A seven page article on this subject was published in the June 2018 APS Journal.

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Thanks everyone - it seems like another one of those puzzles which sadly can no longer be answered - unless of course the APS article has the answer.

I have so far however found a very interesting pdf entitled 'Burmese Colour Needles: An Outline History' - not quite the bamboo clarification I had hoped for but a very good read otherwise:

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... RnunZ6pwuV

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poodling around wrote:Thanks everyone - it seems like another one of those puzzles which sadly can no longer be answered - unless of course the APS article has the answer.

I have so far however found a very interesting pdf entitled 'Burmese Colour Needles: An Outline History' - not quite the bamboo clarification I had hoped for but a very good read otherwise:

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... RnunZ6pwuV
Thanks for posting! Here's the link to my front page there: http://www.burmesecolourneedles.com/

I have a few minor updates to make to the history article in due course, and quite a lot of new information on Capt. Ramsay, the "inventor".
BCN thorn needles made to the original 1920s specifications: http://www.burmesecolourneedles.com

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Orchorsol wrote:
poodling around wrote:Thanks everyone - it seems like another one of those puzzles which sadly can no longer be answered - unless of course the APS article has the answer.

I have so far however found a very interesting pdf entitled 'Burmese Colour Needles: An Outline History' - not quite the bamboo clarification I had hoped for but a very good read otherwise:

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... RnunZ6pwuV
Thanks for posting! Here's the link to my front page there: http://www.burmesecolourneedles.com/

I have a few minor updates to make to the history article in due course, and quite a lot of new information on Capt. Ramsay, the "inventor".
Most interesting indeed ! Well worth visiting it seems.

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