Edison Voice Recorder

[rpucci]

Hi

I have a chance to get a Edison voice recorder for $95.00 and was wondering if that is a good deal.The cylinder is broken and the piece that you talk into is also broken.It probably has other issues as well.

How easy are parts to come by.Thanks

Bob

[edisonphonoworks]

This is a 6" dictation machine type? Edison Voicewriter? Finding a new speaking tube might be a problem? 95.00 seems fair but 45 might be more reasonable if it needs work. They are fun to use, although they do not play two or four minute entertainment records at all. The Edison units are 150tpi, and 160tpi for Dictaphone. I have included some videos to demonstrate how they work. I also make new business machine blanks, although there certainly lots of originals around.


http://youtu.be/5doW6AIS-d4

http://youtu.be/tw2ssSSXTqc

[rpucci]

Thanks a lot.I'll see if I can talk them down.

[Chuck]

If you have any interest at all in the
cylinder type dictation machines, then by all
means I would suggest that you jump on this
machine.

Offer a bit less, due to the "issues", but
do consider obtaining it, because they are very interesting and fun machines to have and use.

As Shawn said, the groove spacing and shape
is different than either the 2 minute or 4
minute entertainment cylinder grooves.

These dictation machines were also designed to
run at only 80 rpm, which is only half of the
normal 160 rpm of the entertainment cylinders.

Dictation machines are under-appreciated by
most phonograph collectors, at the present time. Not sure exactly why that is.

Some of them even destroy perfectly good
working dictation recorders and reproducers,
just to salvage parts. It is a real travesty
when that happens, because there are many
dictation machines out there still, that are
fully capable of working.

Education is the key to it.

Dictation machines need to be studied, cared
for, documented, used, enjoyed, and kept safe
every bit as much as the most rare and sought-
after phonographs do!

After all, they are the surviving machines
that used the same basic mandrel taper as the
cylinder phonographs clear up well into
the 1960s!! For this attribute alone, they
well deserve our respect and care.

Chuck