That's good to know, Dan, thanks for the info. I've had a large electric amplified Brunswick Panatrope and it had a nice long tonearm. My 1919 Sonora's tonearm was about average length, slightly longer than this Victrola suitcase's. I'd hate to think that all Ortho's or all acoustic phonos of the teens and 20's had these nubby little tonearms on them. Best, Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Kjeldgaard" <edisone1 at verizon.net> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at oldcrank.org> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:54 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Shellac records and damage - pictures links > Those portable Orthophonic Victrolas are pretty bad offenders in the > tracking-error department. Brunswick made a couple of "Panatrope" > portables with much, much less tracking error, and the floor model > Orthophonics are fairly decent in that way.