[78-L] Speed for old Edison, and Victor 78s

[Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr.]

Michael Biel wrote:
> ...We assume here that people do not usually play their records on old 
> acoustical machines because that is not listening to the record but 
> rather is really only listening to the machine.  (That is OK because it 
> is fun to do, but is not the way to seriously listen to records.)   Also 
> assumed is that most electrical turntables being used by collectors have 
> a stereo cartridge.  It is an easy matter to play a vertical record with 
> a stereo cartridge by reversing the hot and ground of ONE of the 
> channels and combining them.
>   
Thanks for that.
Someone finally explained to me how that is done.
I have an Edison Diamond disk player and a Brunswick convertible, but 
only run them for demonstration purposes. It would be nice to be able to 
digitize some of  my Eddies.
I still won't be able to get my old Garrard up to the proper speed, 
though, unless someone more clever than I has figured out how to make a 
3 speed phono run at variable speed. Has anyone ever messed with voltage 
or variable electrical frequencies?

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