Stull have all our players, and they work…yay!
The only standalone record player I still have is so old that it’s a four-speed one. And it’s a “changer,” or whatever it is that we used to call them when a person could stick a stack of records on the spindle, and it would drop one after playing the current one. Also, it was a big suitcase model. Someone told me it was an antique back in 1980 or thereabouts. Antique must be Swahili for “not built to fail,” because it still hasn’t. Although it has a much easier life now than it did when it was being bounced back and forth between two kids and our parents constantly, in use several hours a day, nearly every day. Come to think of it, my automotive battery charger was built in the early 1950s, and still works fine, even though it fell out of Pop’s truck at 55 MPH a few decades ago. Must have been built in not-China. . . .
I’m glad it said “Vinyl”. I don’t have any other kind of records.
I remember that fourth speed. I had a number of records that were called, I think, Environment(s). The first one was a seashore, and was engineered (so it said) to be played back at all four (!) speeds. The fourth was half of the 33 1/3, i. e., 16 and a fraction. Gosh, I haven’t thought about that album in decades. Of course, my record player and albums are packed away, and have been for years…
I came here for this. I would never want my permanant record played for all to hear. I’m so relieved that it benignly plays vinyl records instead.
We had enough fun as kids with two speeds. The Three Bears went from being read by a cheery lady to an oafy guy in a recliner. There was another storybook record where a character sneezed, and when we slowed it down it was a prolonged mini hurricane. We couldn’t stop laughing and kept replaying it.
I’ve never heard of this brand. I’d prefer the suitcase Victrola because it’s small and cute, but I got so many Christmas presents to buy, gotta get started early.
This might be it
Most (all?) of the ones intended to be played at 78 RPM were made of shellac. I forget what the 16-and-a-fraction ones were made of, or whether it varied.