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Do you know the speeds on a phonograph?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by shotglass, Sep 24, 2008.

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Do you know the speeds on a phonograph? (VOTE BEFORE READING THREAD!)

  1. Yes

    74 vote(s)
    91.4%
  2. No

    7 vote(s)
    8.6%
  1. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Damn, that's so funny to remember. I used to have two pennies scotch-taped to the arm of my turntable.

    And, actually, you're older if you remember calling them "record players" instead of turntables.

    EDIT: And, hell yes I know the speeds. When I was born my parents owned a record store.
     
  2. pallister

    pallister Guest

    Napoleon Dynamite is not funny. In any speed.
     
  3. KG

    KG Active Member

    I just figured turn table was the older name for them, because I've always called them record players. You calling me old OT? :)
     
  4. Smasher_Sloan

    Smasher_Sloan Active Member

    Well, a record player was a self-contained unit that had its own amplification and speaker(s). A turntable was a single component that was part of a system.

    They don't make them like this any more:

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  5. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Damn, now I'll be hearing Greg Kihn all day.
     
  6. Captain_Kirk

    Captain_Kirk Well-Known Member

    Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Pioneer PL-518.

    [​IMG]

    Had to be one of the more popular turntables of the day. Mine finally gave out after about 15 years of faithful service, but I do have a replacement and a collection of probably 300 albums. Don't get a ton of play, but always nice to be able to go into the library and dust off a nugget.
     
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  7. Gold

    Gold Active Member

    I still call them albums even though they are the CD format.
     
  8. crimsonace

    crimsonace Well-Known Member

    Album = a collection of songs (goes back to the 78RPM days when albums were actually albums -- 5-6 discs with one song on each side in an album folder).

    Record = A 12-inch vinyl disc.

    Semantically, a CD is an album (a collection of songs).
     
  9. Gold

    Gold Active Member

    So I'm not old after all. :D
     
  10. Gold

    Gold Active Member

    When my 13-year-old daughter was five, I was watching a Bogart movie, The Harder They Fall. The movie was in black-and-white, and my daughter asked, "Where is the color?". My eight-year-old asks me if when I was young, the whole world is in black and white.
     
  11. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    This has broad culteral implications. I know vastly-intelligent people in their early '30s who won't watch the original Manchurian Candidate because it's in black and white.

    Jesus wept.
     
  12. waterytart

    waterytart Active Member

    I have a silly ritual with one of my nieces each time she visits that involves watching a movie which will explain why old people say certain things over and over. She loved Spinal Tap, Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, etc. Bitched to high heaven about Casablanca because of the b/w issue. Then she goes to college, takes a film course, and now she's happily working her way through the New Wave.

    But 30-somethings? Probably too late.
     
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