A Portable Record Player for Wax Cylinders Using both Laser-beam Reflection and Stylus Methods

Fukube T, Shimizu Y. A Portable Record Player for Wax Cylinders Using both Laser-beam Reflection and Stylus Methods. In: AES Convention 121. Audio Engineering Society; 2006. Paper 6880. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=13714

@inproceedings{Fukube2006_13714,
  author = {Fukube, Tohru and Shimizu, Yasuyuki},
  title = {{A Portable Record Player for Wax Cylinders Using both Laser-beam Reflection and Stylus Methods}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 121},
  note = {Paper 6880},
  year = {2006},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=13714}
}

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TI  - A Portable Record Player for Wax Cylinders Using both Laser-beam Reflection and Stylus Methods
AU  - Fukube, Tohru
AU  - Shimizu, Yasuyuki
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AB  - The wax phonograph cylinder invented by Thomas Edison in 1885 was the medium for recording sound until about 1930. Although a lot of historically valuable cylinders have been preserved all over the world, most of them changed in quality by re-crystallization and had many cracks on their surfaces. We have developed a portable record player (3.4kg-weight, 45cm-width, 33cm-length, and 10.5cm-height) for the cylinders (2-minute, 55-mm diameter, 105-mm height, 400 grooves) using both laser-beam reflection and stylus methods. In this article, the record player is shown to be useful for carrying it by a hand and reproducing sounds in real time from damaged wax cylinders as well as the undamaged.
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