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The tone arm ST (M, L, A, P) was launched in the early 60's and ST/P received according to sources on the Internet some kind of award in 1963. This year, Beogram v42 was the company's main and foremost vinyl player product. Beogram 1000 came in 1965 and Beogram 3000 5210 and 5211 were sold around 1967-1968.
Frede Kristensen has in previous threads in the forum argued that Beogram 3000 5210 and 5211 never were sold with the longest tone arm, right or wrong. Regardless of whether Frede is right (which I do not doubt) the 12" variant of ST, ST / P should have had some form of application on Beogram v42.
Has anyone seen a v42 with a 12" arm? Has anyone seen any other turntable with the ST/P arm, apart from Beogram 3000 5210 (most likely recent retrofitting)?
/Di ck
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What Frede said is correct.The 12" arm was not factory fitted to any standard production series B&O turntable.The base position of the 12" arm would be outside of the 42V, Beogram 1000 etc, which is also why the Beogram 3000 Thorens requires a special arm board for it.In the early days, it saw use for radio broadcast decks etc. and it was used by BOFA.
Martin