[NJARC] Young person looking for a record player

[John Ruccolo]

Hi Dave,

Does she have a stereo system? I know you wanted a record player, but....Somewhere in the dungeon is a Garrard 4-speed turntable, which might be ideal -- if she has something to connect it to. I'm aware that more modern stereo systems don't even have phono input! The horror!

A record anecdote -- we have speakers mounted in the ceiling of our den/study/office/computer room. Lucky us, we also have squirrels in the inaccessible part of the attic where the speakers are. I have been experimenting with some VINYL rock n' roll classics at HIGH volume to drive the squirrels out of the attic -- and into the (expensive) traps provided by Orkin. Today, we caught our second squirrel. I'm not sure if "Get Off My Cloud" by the Stones or "Kick Out the Jams" by the MC5 was responsible.

Later,

JR

"Kick out the jams, brothers and sisters...."


--- On Fri, 1/23/09, Dave Sica <davesica at juno.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Sica <davesica at juno.com>
> Subject: [NJARC] Young person looking for a record player
> To: njarc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 8:58 PM
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> 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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