[Phono-L] Lyric Phonograph update

[Glenn Longwell]

Well folks, I believe we have most, if not all, of our answers to put this to rest.  This is most certainly not a Columbia product.  As for tonearms on the 3 machines we've seen pictures of it would appear none of them are original.  They did, in fact, commercially produce this phonograph with a rubber tonearm.  So my guess is that these didn't last and were eventually replaced.  They were announced April 1916 in Talking Machine World.  I don't know exactly when they stopped yet but by February 1917 they were no longer producing them.

My two remaining questions are 1) when did they stop, which requires further research which I didn't have time for when I got this most recent information and 2) how can we identify the reproducer they used?  The ad shows it listed as a "Lyric Reproducer" and they claim they made all their own parts but there's not a good enough picture to know how to identify one.  If they only fit the rubber tonearms perhaps they are all gone as well??  Anyone have any Lyric reproducers that seem to fit no other machine?

Full story here with article and ad from April 1916:

www.majesticrecord.com/lyricphono.htm

Regards,
Glenn