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I purchased an Edison standard B for £250 which had a diamond b reproducer, it does not have Edison gearing it has gears from the clarion record company as you know they made 2 and a half minute cylinders by adding extra length to the cylinder (standard 100 tpi).

As four minute records they made wax cylinders at 200tpi which combined with the extra length gave a playing time of 5 minutes and for this they made gearing for 200tpi playback, meaning they can also play standard four minute cylinders.

My goodness, I have never seen one of their attachments before, what a superb find!

Thanks Norman

It was discussed in another thread a while ago - http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... 5&start=20

Very cool!

It is remarkable what people in those early years could come up with to modify machines. That is the first I have seen but it was in one of the books I have read. I bet there are a bunch more attachments out there we have not found yet. Tom B

tomb wrote:It is remarkable what people in those early years could come up with to modify machines. That is the first I have seen but it was in one of the books I have read. I bet there are a bunch more attachments out there we have not found yet. Tom B

What other attachments have you seen?

Thanks, Jake