this month's Make Magazine, #14 (www.makezine.com) has DIY instructions to build a phonograph which plays back Edison cylinders. Surprisingly not that complicated, and there's probably lots of room for tweaking....
(I don't even own any 78s, but out there somewhere is the anarchophile who thinks that recorded sound went downhill when recordings went from vertically to laterally cut....)
this month's Make Magazine, #14 (www.makezine.com) has DIY instructions to build a phonograph which plays back Edison cylinders. Surprisingly not that complicated, and there's probably lots of room for tweaking....
(I don't even own any 78s, but out there somewhere is the anarchophile who thinks that recorded sound went downhill when recordings went from vertically to laterally cut....)