FOR SALE: Edison Stylus for Pathé Actuelle - $27
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 12:31 pm
This is a stylus that someone gave me shortly after I got my Pathé Actuelle machine, thinking that it was the sapphire stylus needed to play Pathé vertical recordings. It's not that, but it was correctly identified as a stylus for Edison discs in this thread back in 2013:
http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... his+stylus
I ran across some diamond discs -- Hawaiian ones! -- and I tried them out on the Actuelle with this stylus. Played the DDs about the same as it plays regular 78s with a steel needle. I noticed, when I tested it in the blank run-out area, that it did seem to leave a very faint scratch line -- so as those who posted in the thread linked above cautioned, you will probably not want to play your best DDs with this. However, if you do have the trifecta combination of an Actuelle machine, this stylus, and a few random diamond discs, this stylus will at least give you the diamond disc option.
I'm sorry the pictures aren't sharper, but these are the best I could get with my rather crappy camera.
It comes in a very small, unmarked tin box with a bit of cotton in it, as shown. Price is $27.00, by check, and that includes shipping within the US.
Please leave a note here in the thread if you send me a PM.
http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... his+stylus
I ran across some diamond discs -- Hawaiian ones! -- and I tried them out on the Actuelle with this stylus. Played the DDs about the same as it plays regular 78s with a steel needle. I noticed, when I tested it in the blank run-out area, that it did seem to leave a very faint scratch line -- so as those who posted in the thread linked above cautioned, you will probably not want to play your best DDs with this. However, if you do have the trifecta combination of an Actuelle machine, this stylus, and a few random diamond discs, this stylus will at least give you the diamond disc option.
I'm sorry the pictures aren't sharper, but these are the best I could get with my rather crappy camera.
It comes in a very small, unmarked tin box with a bit of cotton in it, as shown. Price is $27.00, by check, and that includes shipping within the US.
Please leave a note here in the thread if you send me a PM.