U.S. Phonograph Peerless ?

[JohnM]

I would like to know why the reproducer -- if that is what it is -- is as long as a cylinder record.

U.S. Phonograph Company had an interesting system for playing both 2 & 4 minute cylinders on one machine. That round part infront of the assembly let's you choose between one of two reproducers making contact with the record, one having the 2 minute stylus, and one having the 4 minute stylus

Two feedscrews — one two-minute, one four-minute — as well.