#cylinderplayer — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cylinderplayer, aggregated by home.social.
-
Meanwhile, back on the #CylinderPlayer project. I found an Edison speed governor that turned out not to be from the same model of player (different threading for the connection with the mandrel gear) but the weights were compatible so I put them on this machine's original governor. And now things are running pretty nicely.
#RecordPlayer #Restoration -
Taking a detour from my #cylinderplayer project to look at a friend's Columbia #Grafonoloa #recordplayer. The symptoms are that if you turn the crank, you get a little resistance, then a little "klunk" sound, and then it freewheels. Sounds like a spring issue. Either detatched from the shaft or broken.
I should have taken a picture of the whole player, but here's the extracted mechanism, which I brought home to look at. And an add that shows more or less the model I'm working on,
Seems to be a deluxe triple-spring one, which gives you extra-long runs on a single wind, but means there's more places to check for a break.
That ad shows a girl listening to a Grafonola on a camping trip, like a steampunk iPod. I guess you could, but these things are a bit heavier than an mp3 player! -
This is odd. Edison #CylinderPlayer s have these little screws so that you can adjust the level of the reproducer (and stylus) relative to the cylinder. My original player has one, but it's missing in the one I'm fixing up now. I have no idea what size it's supposed to be. I went to a local #ACEHardware and searched all over for one that would fit.
I found one that seemed to. But it's metric! That can't be correct, can it? It fits with a little wiggle, but so does the original, actually. They were only $0.47 each, so I took some home. Cheap enough to get as an interim and toss if I find a more accurate fit later. (Would have been a low-cost shopping trip, but they have a big display of jars of honey and BBQ sauce to catch you on the way out).
I will be consulting with the masters of the cylinder player internet over this.
#RecordPlayer -
Glad to see that the legal battle between the @internetarchive and the recording industry has been resolved, and hope that this means the Great 78 Project can continue.
David Seubert, quoted in the article, is the head of sound collections at #UCSB which includes the UCSB *cylinder* archive, a great resource for use #CylinderPlayer enthusiasts, and which you can browse here:
-
Glad to see that the legal battle between the @internetarchive and the recording industry has been resolved, and hope that this means the Great 78 Project can continue.
David Seubert, quoted in the article, is the head of sound collections at #UCSB which includes the UCSB *cylinder* archive, a great resource for use #CylinderPlayer enthusiasts, and which you can browse here: