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Listening tubes
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:10 pm
by briankeith
Seems like a lot of money - has anyone here bought one of his repro listening tubes with a built in voluum control ?? Item number: 200910111587 (he sells these on EBay) They look too modern to me?
Re: Listening tubes
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:15 pm
by kirtley2012
they are acctually made of a modified stethoscope!
Re: Listening tubes
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 4:40 pm
by briankeith
R U sure Kirtley ??
Re: Listening tubes
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:27 pm
by phonogal
Sure looks like a stethoscope to me too. Just pull off the head and add the volume control. Cheapo stethoscopes run about $15.00.
Re: Listening tubes
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:39 pm
by phonogfp
Yep - stethoscope. You can buy far more authentic looking ear tubes from Jean-Paul Agnard for ¼ the price of the stethoscope. Jean-Paul will be at the Wayne show this weekend.
George P.
Re: Listening tubes
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:48 pm
by Retrograde
The volume control looks a wee bit like a sphygmomanometer valve.
Re: Listening tubes
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 6:12 pm
by estott
Definitely a reworked stethoscope.
Re: Listening tubes
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:15 pm
by edisonphonoworks
http://www.ebay.com/itm/EDISON-FIRESIDE ... 2ec75ed033
Yes reworked stethoscope. This has vinyl tubing. If you can find the kind with the Y shaped metal part, you could use the white rubber tubing that most of us are familiar with, the original listening tube parts were Gutta Percha. However I am sure they work well. I would not use though listening tubes with a Diamond B, I onetime used a DB meter in the horn of an Amberola machine and it was reading 100 DB on the loud passage of Over The Waves, by the New York Military band on a flat ended BA.