Tings-tone stylus yes or no?

[JerryVan]

Excerpt from a 1924 Victor Victrola Manual.


VI - THE VICTROLA TUNGS-TONE STYLUS
AND THE VICTOR STEEL NEEDLE

We recommend that in playing your records you always use the Victrola Tungs-tone stylus, because it is the one ideal reproducing point. The Tungs-tone stylus employs the metal tungsten, which is soft and fibrous, not hard and crystalline. The Victory Company controls by patent, the use of this metal for reproducing points, and
while other points have been made imitating the general form of tungs-tone styli, they are invariably of some other material. The Tungs-tone stylus, because of its soft texture will not wear out your records. And it does not have to be changed for each record. Instead of being tapered the Tungs-tone stylus is cylindrical inn shape, and of the same width as the record groove. As its tip wears down, the stylus will not, therefore, like a tapered point, tend to crowd the sides of the record groove and thus impair the tone of the music. Its diameter remains the same from first to last. Each Tungs-tone stylus should play from 100 to 300 records. It is desirable to occasionally give the stylus a partial turn in the needle arm.

The Victor steel needles are made with the utmost care, and each and every one is polished to a spherical point and fits perfectly in the Victor record grooves.


If you’re going to use a Tungs-tone needle, play only on Victor Tungs-tone records.

Cool! Not directly stated, but seems to describe the Tungsten-Copper alloy.

[Edisonfan]

It’s the closest I could find.

[mick_vt]

I did read the patent once, I dont know if it was on here or if it was on the US Patent office site. The wording was very very similar to the advertising claims - I don't recall if it described the alloy in any more detail or not

[gramophone78]

Tungs-Tone needle tins (at least in Canada) came with a slip of paper describing them as a "short piece of fine Tungsten wire inserted in a steel holder". Did the tins sold in the US also come with this slip of paper...?.