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Post by pothos on Jul 16, 2015 10:30:30 GMT
On another thread the discussion of record players came up and I thought I would show you a clip of what my first ever player was.
My second one resembled this but was a slights different colour;
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Post by Bongo on Jul 16, 2015 14:00:05 GMT
I bought my own good stereo system (Marantz) once I started working, but my first turntable would have been my parents hifi furniture in the living room with 8 track & AM/FM radio. You know the ones....
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Post by ROCKY on Jul 16, 2015 22:28:04 GMT
I remember those pothos. lol Here's a pic of mine. It had red alligator skin. I must have been 6 yrs. old when my MoM bought it for me. I was hooked and became a vinyl junkie..... cold turkey.. has got me.. on the run.
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Post by pothos on Jul 16, 2015 23:01:33 GMT
I was thinking about this earlier and this must have been rather unusual. My parents had no interest in music. They had no record player and no records. The music they liked (Gracie Fields, Doris Day) was as distant from Rock n Roll as you can imagine. I had no siblings so where this lifelong obsession with music came from puzzles me.
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Post by ROCKY on Jul 18, 2015 3:24:01 GMT
Maybe you are making up for lost time pothos. I know a lot of my friends had no interest in music until they heard Hendrix and Pink Floyd. Then they started reaching back to the Beatles and now some have gone onto Robert Johnson. My DaD had a 78 rpm collection of Big Band music like Stan Kenton and Gene Krupa and that's what I listened to even before Elvis! And like I said before back then, Fats, Chuck and Little Richard were IT for me, even more than Elvis & Buddy.
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Post by Mr Kite on Jul 18, 2015 14:23:10 GMT
My first one I remember was one like this beauty I have a brother seven years old than me and he and so I was brought up on what he bought , Beatles and Motown Then we had one of these around about 1971 .
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Post by pothos on Jul 18, 2015 15:28:42 GMT
Those cabinet ones were oh so chic and where I cam from you were considered rather posh to own such a piece. Rocky I do not think I explained myself properly. Even though music was no where on my parents radar I always loved music. The push n play player was bought by someone in the family and at around four/five years old I was hooked. I watched Top of The Pops where Glam Rock ruled.
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Post by henryj on Jul 18, 2015 15:31:46 GMT
When I was a kid we had a record player about like Rocky's. It played 78 rpm records. I think I was listening to some Sousa marches when I was nine when it started smelling funny, then the music and the turntable slowed down and stopped, and then smoke came out of the player. Then we got it fixed. A few years we got a console stereo for the living room.
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Post by Mr Kite on Jul 18, 2015 15:50:40 GMT
Those cabinet ones were oh so chic and where I cam from you were considered rather posh to own such a piece. We wer`nt posh thats for sure My Ma loved Music and that`s how we ended up with a Cabinet Player She loved Film soundtracks . King And I , Seven Brides For Seven Brothers are two I remember well .
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Post by ROCKY on Jul 18, 2015 20:45:22 GMT
When I was a kid we had a record player about like Rocky's. It played 78 rpm records. I think I was listening to some Sousa marches when I was nine when it started smelling funny, then the music and the turntable slowed down and stopped, and then smoke came out of the player. Then we got it fixed. A few years we got a console stereo for the living room. How about those steel needles?! A package of a hundred for about a dime! lol I remember taping quarters on to the phono arm to keep it from skipping and I would use those needles until they dug the Grand Canyon into my kiddie records.
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Post by henryj on Jul 18, 2015 21:17:40 GMT
Yeah, you're right Rocky! 78s used needles. 33 1/3 and 45 used a "stylus." On the early hi-fi turntables you turned over the stylus to the 78 side if you wanted to play a 78.
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Post by Amadeus on Jul 19, 2015 17:14:28 GMT
Yeah, you're right Rocky! 78s used needles. 33 1/3 and 45 used a "stylus." On the early hi-fi turntables you turned over the stylus to the 78 side if you wanted to play a 78. And you tried not to forget to turn it back when you put on a 'micro-groove' record. Bits of vinyl dust flying off the surface, clouding the view.
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