[78-L] turntable question

[Royal Pemberton]

'PE'--Perpetuum-Ebner.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:15 PM, DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com> wrote:

> A friend writes of of a turntable on which there was a tone arm that  would
> move to the centre of the record and then "slowly move to the edge before
> playing".  He says that it wasn't a changer.  What would this  have been?
>
> pc
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> In the late 50s, there was a German changer/manual player, (it was in a
> Loewe-Opta console but I think the brand of the player was "PE"). on which
> the record from the stack would fall about a half of an inch, the arm would
> move forward and tap the side of the disc to determine its diameter, move
> back, let the disc drop and then proceed to play the record.  If there was
> no disc in the stack, the arm would move far enough to determine this and
> then return to its rest.  This is a bit different than you describe but it's
> the closest I can come to it.
>
> db
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