FOR THE ADVANCED Victor 10-50 OWNER: Remote Reject Control

Enrico Caruso sings LA DANZA Tarantella Napolitana by Rossini.

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This tongue-in-cheek video is about the plight of any owner of the famous Victor 10-50 Automatic Record Changer:

Loaded with the right records, the machine will change and play flawlessly through all 12 loaded records, with one CAVEAT:

Automatic Function is possible with VICTOR RECORDS ONLY, and of that only those that have the oscillating or oval end-groove.

All Victor records prior to 1923, and all other makers just have the record grinding at the end. The music lover needs to raise himself from his comfortable fauteuil, open the machine and manually push the reject button inside the machine.

Regardless if Caruso, great early Jazz on Odeon or Gennett, even the Original Dixieland Jazz Band will not trip. With 2:30 min playing time, the continuous rush of up and down and to and fro between the comfortable chair and the machine becomes an unacceptable strain on the music lover's contemplation.

Funny enough - a new invention is old again: The Radio-Electrola model of this Victor Changer, the 9-55, (and of course our British colleagues with their HMV 1A changer) already had a solenoid powered reject function that allowed to change the record without opening the door.

So, in this spirit I set about designing a wire remote control that allows you to operate the changer from the distance and comfort of your cushy settee.

For practical reasons, the reject circuit uses a safe 32V provided by a small power supply. A button at the end of a long wire energizes a small solenoid sitting right on the changer bedplate. Which in turn pulls the reject lever and thus starts the cycle.

By plugging a splitter in the main wiring harness in parallel to the motor, the remote control is only energized while the motor is running.

Installation is easy and straightforward. Solenoid and power supply are just attached with double-sided tape: Just clean a small patch on the bedplate from oil and grime, attach the solenoid, and hook a thin wire to the manual reject lever.

The power supply is simply plugged into the main wiring harness and does not require any rewiring. The remote cable is thin enough to go through the hole in the back panel of the main power plug.

For more details, contact me at

sanfranphono@sbcglobal.net

The program recorded on this machine from the original 78 RPM Record:

Enrico Caruso: "La Danza" Tarantella Napolitana (Gioachino Rossini), New York February 13, 1912,
played at the prescribed speed of 76.6 RPM

A word to the sound:
I have recorded the actual record on the machine with an external condensor mike and spliced it into the video. Hence you will sometimes notice jumps in sound quality. Volume has been adjusted to maximum level without clipping and distortions. No peak volume compression or other sound manipulations have been applied. If you find that the volume of my videos are lower than on other videos, the reason may be the absence of artificial compression and volume boosting.

Enjoy.

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