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Vintage Audio (record players, hi-fi etc) Amplifiers, speakers, gramophones and other audio equipment. |
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19th Feb 2019, 5:30 pm | #1 |
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World’s smallest record player
It won’t play your latest vinyls though!
Yes, that is a stylus on a pivoting arm. The “record” is a rectangular card, about the size of a playing card which slots in behind the window, and the “turntable” is the disc which carries the stylus. The stylus and “tone arm” spin, not the record. I do not have any records for this, but I believe they were available with birdsongs, and had a description and picture of the bird visible through the window while the record was playing. Stuart |
19th Feb 2019, 5:44 pm | #2 |
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Re: World’s smallest record player
Talking soft toys with a pull-cord use a type of acoustic record player mechanism. They contain a disk with several tracks spiralled. Pulling the cord winds the spring and causes the stylus, which is attached directly to a crude plastic speaker-type cone, to land on the record with spring pressure, randomly playing one of the tracks. The tracks are only a few seconds long.
I don't know whether that mechanism is bigger or smaller than your unit, so how it would compete for "world's smallest". Yours is accessible and can play "records" of the owner's choice. An interesting, unusual, and probably very rare item. It's a shame you don't have anything for it to play. |
19th Feb 2019, 5:48 pm | #3 |
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Re: World’s smallest record player
This one's quite small:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_yToFtXe_k As is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmx-nwetRwI
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19th Feb 2019, 6:03 pm | #4 |
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Re: World’s smallest record player
I seem to recall a little motorised 'mouse' that you could place on a record ..... it then 'ran' around the grooves and emanated [poor quality] sound. The mouse looked reasonably realistic [i.e. verminous] ..... I can't remember whether it was clockwork or battery powered.
An interesting 'novelty' anyway ....
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The Microsonic pictured looks altogether a more serious thing & it is indeed a shame there's no material for it to play, I wonder how it would have sounded in comparison to other "novelty" players. |
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19th Feb 2019, 11:08 pm | #7 |
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Re: World’s smallest record player
I’ve seen sets of cards based on the birds for different areas of the USA. I think bird watchers take them into the field to help identify birds by their sound as well as the picture on the card. So as such, they have a particular application, rather than being just a novelty.
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