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Is this complete and ready to be put on a machine or will someone have to find/manufacture parts to get it operating? Nice attachment...

The reproducers look ready to me, but the recorder probably needs new gaskets, and for sure a stylus and stylus holder, which I am sure an Edison recorder stylus could be used with a new copper holder made for this recorder, and some new natural rubber gaskets. I think the reproducers are different and are OK the way they are.

cleveland1996 wrote:Is this complete and ready to be put on a machine or will someone have to find/manufacture parts to get it operating? Nice attachment...

The spider on the Standard attachment would need work and the recorder would need to be researched to discover the proper stylus that Lt. Gianni Bettini would have supplied it with. Maybe it was the same stylus as Edison used? I would like to know.

Here is a wonderful reference tribute to the Bettini attachments:

http://www.worldofgramophones.com/betti ... ucers.html

Fran

Hi folks,

For anyone interested in such things:

The Home Phonograph recording attachment sold at a price of $5601.00
The Standard Phonograph reproducer attachment sold at a price of $8102.00
The Horn sold for a price of $3850.00
The Columbia Graphophone attachment sold at a price of $2280.00

So if I had been the person to buy the setup for my pristine Model A Standard, it would have cost me $11,952.00 plus whatever shipping would apply from Spain. Ouch. More than 10 times the value of my little beauty.

Fran