[NJARC] Young person looking for a record player

[Dave Sica]

I was surprised and pleased to find out that one of my daughter's
friends, a senior in high school, has become interested in records. Yes,
records. Not CDs or MP3s. Real spin-around-in-circles records. Even more
surprising, she's more interested in big band music on 78s than the
Beatles on LP, or even whatever the heck young people are buying on the
few LPs that are being issued these days.  She's all fired up about
getting over to the Princeton Record Exchange and looking around there. 

She's a complete newbie at this and wasn't even sure about what the
differences between all the options were (45s, 78s and LPs and turntables
vs. phonographs vs. stereo systems.) I offered to help her clarify what
she was interested in and we had a long discussion today during which we
were able to determine that she had some preferences even though she
wasn't sure how to describe them. What she hopes to find is a
fifties-vintage 3-speed changer with integral amp and speaker. She's not
looking for HiFi here and actually prefers the funky designs of the early
self-contained bakelite units and also anything up to the cloth covered
boxy HiFi or stereo systems of the late fifties.

Does anyone have a unit, in working condition (or perhaps needing no more
than a filter cap tune-up)? Collectibility and rarity is not an issue,
but price is. So a common, less desirable unit that's cheap (or free!) --
and working -- would be best for her first record player. It's of no
consequence whether or not it also contains a radio.

This is the second young friend of my kids I've met who is interested in
records. That's encouraging and I'd like to encourage kids to appreciate
this stuff that we "old guard" collectors know so well. (While she was
visiting, I messed with her mind a bit by playing a music recording back
on one of my wire recorders!) If anybody has a record player that she
would be able to use that they'd be willing to part with, please let me
know.

Thanks,
--Dave Sica
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