Another "Scary" video I found on YouTube.....

[Nat]

when did Pathé make Victrolas? That's one rare machine!

[Victrolaman]

Geesh what did he have for a brake there?

[doublemike]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQYsSOFn1Nc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frxe86jDtdE[/youtube]

[FloridaClay]

oh, it makes you cringe!



Clay

[bbphonoguy]

Is the misconception about which side of the record the needle goes on really that widespread, or is it just that the few who have it wrong keep making videos?

[Nat]

Maybe he's trying to dig deeper into those grooves, to get more sound out?

[Bob E.]

Maybe they learned everything they know about phonographs from "educational" TV...watch the first five seconds (animated portion) of the opening titles to "The Electric Company":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrQBkje1 ... ults_video

--Bob

[STARR-OLA]

This gives me nightmares! .i had to stay away from this post till today.makes me want to cry ,.i gave some records last week to a second hand store,they were playing edison dd on a columbia with steel needles.i think they thought i was crazy giving them a dozen records they could play and i didnt want the edisons,the lady thought the edisons were worth 100 bucks each.they were destroyed.i told her to put them in her dumpster.sad sad sad,that poor pixie!

[phono-farm]

I just picked up an Edison DD machine today from Craigslist, complete with about 40 records. It was disappointing to find the records were ordinary 78's, and I suspect they've been played with that machine. So, what's worse, playing a DD record on a Victrola, or a Victor record on a DD machine?

[HisMastersVoice]

So, what's worse, playing a DD record on a Victrola, or a Victor record on a DD machine?

I would imagine that playing a DD on a Victrola would cause much more damage than playing a lateral cut record on a DD or Pathé machine.