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  1. I've been working on a nother cylinder player with an issue that had me stumped. It had a warble that was a variation in volume. Finally traced it to this screw on the hinge of the reproducer. (The reproducer has the actual stylus, and makes sound by a coupling of the stylus to a diaphragm). It was screwed on way to tight. Which meant the stylus could move up and down, but not laterally. It needs to have some slop so that it can follow the groove. So the stylus was riding up the sides of the grooves instead of the trough, "where the sound is" (cylinder groves are cut with up-and-down oscillations, instead of side-by-side like a mono disk). #CylinderPlayer #EdisonCylinder #Amberola

  2. I've been working on a nother cylinder player with an issue that had me stumped. It had a warble that was a variation in volume. Finally traced it to this screw on the hinge of the reproducer. (The reproducer has the actual stylus, and makes sound by a coupling of the stylus to a diaphragm). It was screwed on way to tight. Which meant the stylus could move up and down, but not laterally. It needs to have some slop so that it can follow the groove. So the stylus was riding up the sides of the grooves instead of the trough, "where the sound is" (cylinder groves are cut with up-and-down oscillations, instead of side-by-side like a mono disk). #CylinderPlayer #EdisonCylinder #Amberola

  3. I've been working on a nother cylinder player with an issue that had me stumped. It had a warble that was a variation in volume. Finally traced it to this screw on the hinge of the reproducer. (The reproducer has the actual stylus, and makes sound by a coupling of the stylus to a diaphragm). It was screwed on way to tight. Which meant the stylus could move up and down, but not laterally. It needs to have some slop so that it can follow the groove. So the stylus was riding up the sides of the grooves instead of the trough, "where the sound is" (cylinder groves are cut with up-and-down oscillations, instead of side-by-side like a mono disk). #CylinderPlayer #EdisonCylinder #Amberola

  4. I've been working on a nother cylinder player with an issue that had me stumped. It had a warble that was a variation in volume. Finally traced it to this screw on the hinge of the reproducer. (The reproducer has the actual stylus, and makes sound by a coupling of the stylus to a diaphragm). It was screwed on way to tight. Which meant the stylus could move up and down, but not laterally. It needs to have some slop so that it can follow the groove. So the stylus was riding up the sides of the grooves instead of the trough, "where the sound is" (cylinder groves are cut with up-and-down oscillations, instead of side-by-side like a mono disk). #CylinderPlayer #EdisonCylinder #Amberola

  5. I've been working on a nother cylinder player with an issue that had me stumped. It had a warble that was a variation in volume. Finally traced it to this screw on the hinge of the reproducer. (The reproducer has the actual stylus, and makes sound by a coupling of the stylus to a diaphragm). It was screwed on way to tight. Which meant the stylus could move up and down, but not laterally. It needs to have some slop so that it can follow the groove. So the stylus was riding up the sides of the grooves instead of the trough, "where the sound is" (cylinder groves are cut with up-and-down oscillations, instead of side-by-side like a mono disk). #CylinderPlayer #EdisonCylinder #Amberola

  6. This is an Edison Standard cylinder #RecordPlayer, which belongs to one of our board members. Not currently working, but I'm planning to get it singing again.

    (This is a generation earlier than the #Amberola I fixed earlier).