The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

I got this 5-6 years ago from a radio guy up in Minneapolis thinking I might need it for parts, but if I haven't needed it after this long, I think it's better to see if someone actually needs it. They are very hard to find as you might imagine (and he felt that way as well... ) Anyway, the stylus is good and it does seem to work when I hook it up to my C-2. The volume is weak as I'm sure it needs to be rebuilt and the wires on the tone arm replaced as well. The volume control is missing along with the scratch filter or whatever that thing is that's in the circuit with the tone arm and that may have something to do with how it sounds on my machine. It would be a lot of work to take my machine all apart to put this in and see how it works that way, and I also never hooked it up to an old radio with a phonograph connection to see if that would work as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTLJMlg9Zf0 is a terrible video of it playing for about a minute. It's kind of overdriving the speaker some, but that's probably the missing volume control and it needing a rebuild. Also, one of the screws for the cover is missing. I have a pair of screws from a Brunswick head that are the same, but a little larger so the bar in the pickup head would need to be tapped out to that size for them to work. Edison it seems, liked to do as much as he could to be different at times. Haha! Anyway, if you have any questions, or if you would like more pictures, do feel free to ask.

The cabinet that this came from was missing the legs and the veneer on top of the lid was really in bad shape. I did not get any other parts from it when I got it from the guy. He did not have the chassis or speaker as I did ask about that stuff.