Turntable reminiscences

[madbodger]

My first record player was a cheap red and white plastic affair with which I could play my stack of bright yellow 78s. It was the kind that had a steel needle that was held in place with a thumbscrew on the tonearm, the kind you were supposed to replace the needle after every play. However, we only had the one needle, so I just used it over and

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[sharrainchains]

Great reminiscence about turntables - thank you! And... nowadays, many people (including myself) have bought cheap read and white turntables that will play/convert old vinyl into digital format!

[whc]

I've always associated the single use steel needles with Victrolas and the old hard records and thought that they would tear up vinyl records. Were the yellow records a hard plastic or vinyl?

[patches023]

Nice!