Then try it with an old style gramophone. Just wind it up, pop on your LP, and let the good times roll. Just basic textures at the moment. Mahray RenderGods

Winding the handle puts tension on the spring (safely locked in a box away from curious hands), which then releases the tension to the gear, turning the gear and subsequently the turntable. The horn can also be rotated to suit the environment and placement of the gramophone.

An LP on that machine. No way. Maybe a 78!

Ok, so my terminology is a bit out... Still, these things went out with the Stone Age! (In other words, probably before I was born). Mahray

hey i had some 78 wind up player as a kid, norman wisdom, bingcrosby etc. the needles made a real mess of the first 45 i had when i put i under. meant to say, it looks a nice model though.

Can you play those new B-Ray discs on it?

Len.
(It's missing a memory-stick slot as well)

I agree with rj001 in that it is a nice model. My previous comments were meant to be informative, not in criticsm. LP's came close to 1950 and were an attempt to increase the music time from about 4 minutes to 20 minutes per disk. Cheers Bob

Nice model. Trivia time..... I work in a second hand bookshop and we often get ancient records come through. A few weeks back we had what I thought was a photo album come through, but inside actually had 78s in it. On the cover it actually said Record Album, which is why we call LP's that contain multiple tracks "Albums". Maybe everyone knows that, but I didn't.

Excellent model Tim! I didn't know that Phil, thanks. Makes sense now.
Next trivia, and I don't know the answer is>>>
are 78's and 45's named due to there speed, ie 45 rotations per min or sec or something like that? and weren't what we call LPs around 33 or 33 1/2 ? Just my silly curiousity.

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Ang, correct, 78 and 45 are the rotational speed (per minute not second :) ) and LPs run at 33 1/3.

I did take the comment about LPs as info not crit (it may not have come out that way in my post though...) If anyone has links to more information about what would play on a machine like that, please let me know (that way I can call the bits by their proper names). Mahray

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