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...or should I have said, "Tallulah slaps a phonograph!"

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING MOVIE CLIP CONTAINS EXTREMELY DISTURBING MATERIAL AND IS NOT FOR THE FAINTHEARTED.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_rW3vdQNBM[/youtube]


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Now, in real life, that sound box would have been toast. Seems I've seen several movies where people rrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiippppppp the tonearm off the record, and somehow, the phonograph survives. I remember once shattering the center of a diaphragm just from turning the @#$% thumbscrew too tight!

Ortho_Fan wrote:Now, in real life, that sound box would have been toast. Seems I've seen several movies where people rrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiippppppp the tonearm off the record, and somehow, the phonograph survives.

I don’t think that Hollywood has generally felt (until perhaps recently) that they could sell real life to anyone.

There’s a lot more magic to self-winding phonographs that are slap-proof.

— MordEth

When I lived in Virginia, I knew a fellow who lived across the state line in Tennessee. He had a number of machines -- I guess you could call him a collector, but he wasn't knowledgeable at all about the hobby. More of an accumulator, I'd say. Whenever he would play a disc machine, the needle would already be in the groove of the record and he'd start the turntable by giving it a hard push with his fingers and, for example, the voice of Hank Williams would blastingly over-drive out of the horn of a cheap front-mount Columbia. I could just picture the stress on the governor and the wear on the gears as the music wow-ed to a start! I used to pray that he would never find anything really good! Not that I would . . . just that he wouldn't! LOL! Nice guy, but . . . a machine abuser. Someone call PETTM, please!

John M

Interesting that at about 3 minutes into the clip, the record starts playing fine, then the clicking sound of a cracked record starts.

Anyone ever see a record that was cracked from the inside that did not make it out to the edge of the record?

Very disturbing!

Folks,

OUCH! There oughta be a law! Someone call a cop or sumthin'!

Regards,
John