The Victor Tapering Arm/Gooseneck: "On This Day in Phonographic History..."

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"On This Day in Phonographic History..."

 

February 12, 1903: Eldridge Johnson filed for a U.S. patent for a tapering tone arm.  The acoustic improvement over the short-lived “Rigid Arm” (introduced in October 1902) was noticeable, and the ingenious goose-neck sound box tube would distinguish Victor products for decades to come.

 

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[Neilvanstem]

Nice to know. I have a rigid arm Monarch and yep a big difference in sound compared to the tapering tone arm. Neil