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I worked in demolition for 10 years. People left 78's in the houses. I took home a few titles I knw. Then I found this
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/gakken-p ... 512847-01/

Fun evening putting it together...and suddenly the recods spoke. It was magic, I sent a kit to my kid with a milk crate of records.

It also recorded projected speech into the paper cone...onto a noodle bowl tin foil lid.

Can I do a similar thing with my floor model?

Gakken makes some neat stuff!!!

How does the recording function work on it? Does it have some sort of feed screw, or a pre-grooved turntable? Most of the early home disc recording attachments used one or the other.

The adjustable counterweight for 45s and LPs is rather interesting.

Bill

I'm intrigued that they get a fine enough point on the bamboo stylus to play micro-groove records...


Kind of like Berliner's "Kammer & Reinhardt toy Gram-o-phone" brought into the 21st century... (excepting that this example is not hand-powered).

I played 78's with the steel needles supplied.

There was a mini platic disk that went above the tin foil. It guided the stylus.

You used the bamboo needle on the tin foil.

Lot of fun.

They make nearly 100 real working science stuff. Worth the money.

So how do I make my floor model record?

justin ball wrote:I played 78's with the steel needles supplied.

There was a mini platic disk that went above the tin foil. It guided the stylus.

You used the bamboo needle on the tin foil.

Lot of fun.

They make nearly 100 real working science stuff. Worth the money.

So how do I make my floor model record?

Well, if you want to tinker, you can search the forum for 'home disc recording'. There are threads on some of the attachments made and marketed way back when, and you might be able to reverse engineer them.

Bill