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I’m curious to hear any experiences any of you have with Edison Concert Phonographs using a model D reproducer. What is their compatibility? Are they any more or less destructive as opposed to an Automatic or model B reproducer? With ball or button stylus? Thanks!

Hello,

Your D should have a similar stylus to your B or automatic. Sometimes they have been changed out to something else, over the years. I have 4 D’s, and have never noticed any problem with playing my concert cylinders. Of course, this is just with occasional playing. I also have an automatic, with a thicker weight, which was also used on Edison Concert machines. I would guess the weight of the weight is similar to the D. I wrote an article, on D and J reproducers, which is in Ron Dethlefson’s book on Concerts. I love these machines!

Mike Sorter
Riverside, CA

Thanks Mike!

Cheers!

Darren Wallace

I'll throw this out to perhaps save someone some problems . I bought a type D reproducer on epay that was supposed to have been completely rebuilt. I installed it correctly in the Concert carriage and gently lowered it down on a brown wax cylinder while I watched carefully. I saw a thin thread of wax become shaved from unrecorded part of the record. The D reproducer had the bar and doorknob stylus normally used for 2 minute wax records which I thought was correct for the D. Not the B or Automatic style of stylus. The automatic plays perfectly I have a B , but never tried it.