Interesting sideways Edison player

[barnettrp21122]

Here's a new one on me-offered at auction nearby...
Looks like it could be an Edisonic reproducer!
Bob

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[52089]

Hard to tell, but I think it might actually be a Dance reproducer.

[A Ford 1]

Hi all,
I have bought various reproducers that can be used to play a Diamond Disc on an Orthophonic. This setup as shown certainly would not work as Edison intended. The problems are: first because the goose neck of the tone arm on a victor or most all other lateral play back record players is not limited the reproducer body weight would be born by the limit pin putting the highest load on the diaphragm and and an excessive load on the stylus, second even if the travel down of the tone arm was restrained so as to have the limit pin in the center of its loop vertically the drag of the stylus would cause the limit pin to rub up and down hard against the limit pin loop. The solution would be to cut the neck of the reproducer in the horizontal plane rotate and align the line from the stylus to the weight pivot to minimize that lines maximum misalignment with a tangent to the record grove and fix the two parts with a home made union by brazing or other technique. Then this might work to some extent.
I generally use my a C-19 to play my DD records.
Allen

[JerryVan]

Hi all,
I have bought various reproducers that can be used to play a Diamond Disc on an Orthophonic. This setup as shown certainly would not work as Edison intended. The problems are: first because the goose neck of the tone arm on a victor or most all other lateral play back record players is not limited the reproducer body weight would be born by the limit pin putting the highest load on the diaphragm and and an excessive load on the stylus, second even if the travel down of the tone arm was restrained so as to have the limit pin in the center of its loop vertically the drag of the stylus would cause the limit pin to rub up and down hard against the limit pin loop. The solution would be to cut the neck of the reproducer in the horizontal plane rotate and align the line from the stylus to the weight pivot to minimize that lines maximum misalignment with a tangent to the record grove and fix the two parts with a home made union by brazing or other technique. Then this might work to some extent.
I generally use my a C-19 to play my DD records.
Allen

This could actually be made to work very easily. Since it's an Orthophonic tone arm, the collar at the goose neck joint can simply be tightened to lock the goose neck in place, taking the weight load off the stylus and allowing the reproducer to work as designed.... kind of. Might be cumbersome lifting the stylus off the record however. I'd be more worried about the pot metal support bracket at the back of the tone arm having to hold all that weight.