"Serge Auckland" wrote in message
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"Ross Matheson" wrote in message
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In any case, it would appear that the vinyl 78's were designed to be
played
back with a "normal" cartridge sporting a 78 stylus; there are
cartridges
that will accept both LP & 78 styli, albeit at a higher tracking force
for 78.

In most ordinary record players, cartridges used to be "turnover" for
many years after the introduction of fine groove records. The cantilever
had two styli and you turned a small knob on the front to change between
fine and coarse groove. I don't remember anyone changing the playing
weight though, it was probably about 5 g for everything.
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Tony W
My e-mail address has no hyphen
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That's right, and in most cases, the microgroove stylus was diamond and
the coarse groove stylus was sapphire. As this one would wear very
quickly, so anyone who still regularly played 78s, would probably be
playing them on a worn stylus and so cause a lot of damage to the record.
One further reason why there are so few unworn 78s available now.


No-one more pleased to see *vinyl* back on the menu in here than me, but
even I'm getting concerned at how deep it seems to be going! That said,
here's another link to show just how *involving* the old stuff was and quite
obviously still is for a number of people:

http://www.gracyk.com/tenquestion.shtml


Scroll down to see the mention of bamboo and thorn needles, as well as the
detail instructions on how to operate the 'Fibre Needle Cutter'!! :-)

I love the 'How do I gain access to the spring motor?' question - how long
before we see that sort of thing in this group, the way things are going??

:-)