Leather Tone Arm?

USlakeside · Post by **USlakeside** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:20 pm

Strange leather tone arm on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.de/RARITAT-GRAMMOPHON-T ... 2556f087c5

m1tch · Post by **m1tch** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:10 pm

It looks like it might just be a decorative sleeve to go over a metal tone arm? you can see stiching along the edge, but it would make a fine addition if the casing had leather accents

estott · Post by **estott** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:28 pm

Very interesting. I wonder if the maker claimed it would soften metalic tones or something like that- like Hawthorne and Sheble covering their horns with cloth.

USlakeside · Post by **USlakeside** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:10 am

It could be a sleeve, but why the strip on the bottom? You could easily wrap a full metal tone arm in leather without the additional strip. I bet it was marketed as a softer tone tone arm!

Sidewinder · Post by **Sidewinder** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:17 am

Could it have been that in the change over from travelling arm machines to supported horns, this company decided that, as up to this point (in europe at least) the elbows between leather, why not keep this part of the "technology". The metal rod being there as the leather by itself could not support the reproducer part of the construction?

In the same way that the automobiles are made with motors at the front - because thats where the horse used to be?

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