Victor Taper Arm

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“On This Day in the History of Recorded Sound…”

March 13, 1906: Eldridge Johnson was granted a U.S. patent (No.814,786) for a tapering tone arm. The acoustic improvement over the short-lived “Rigid Arm” (introduced in October 1902) was noticeable, and the ingenious goose-neck sound box tube would distinguish Victor’s products for decades to come.

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