#phonograph records

[retropopcult]

A factory line worker lifts a copy of Leon Rusk's "Air Mail Special on the Fly" from a stamper at the King Record Company pressing plant in Cincinnati, 1946.

[thriftstoresisyphus]

Dr. Michael Fox "Dogtalk"

[mahgnib]

78-RPM record sleeve for the first recording of “The Hokey Pokey”, recorded in 1948, but issued in 1950, by the Sun Valley Trio.

[charring58]

#U505 is a German Type IXC submarine built for Germany's Kriegsmarine during #WorldWarII. It was captured by the United States Navy on 4 June 1944 and survives as a museum ship in Chicago.

[jumy-m]

Jumy-M Old coffee shop in a small town / 店主の蘊蓄

[vinylespassion]

Bernard Charoy

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: "People who have the time to listen often pick out records to play on the library's phonographs. Earphones make it possible for everyone to enjoy his favorite sounds without disturbing his neighbors." From What Happens at the Library by Arthur Shay. Chicago: Reilly & Lee Books, 1971.

[swankyangles]

A Very Brief Field Guide to Choosing a 2nd Hand, or New Record Player.

A practical post from a former record store owner

(pt. 1: WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD)

The first thing you need to check when examining a record player for purchase is the type of needle and cartridge used. There are two types, ceramic or magnetic. (You probably want magnetic) You can usually spot a ceramic cartridge a mile away. The cheaper, more robust, but ultimately, long-term more damaging needle and cartridge style that so prevalently covers the market for the past 30 years is the Pfanstiehl P-188D. They're everywhere.

You probably want to avoid this. This cartridge and needle style is better suited for:

Digging: Battery powered "field testing", IE your own personal listening station for flea markets, yard sales, record stores or what have you. You don't want to drag a nice needle through a filthy find.

78's and 16's : those brittle heavy lacquer shits that are old as balls. BALLS.

Clumsy casuals and children. If you look hard you can find them for less than $10. So if a kid breaks it it's no biggie. Also it's not like you're going to turn him loose with a collection of priceless sun ra singles.

Weird stuff: "glue-in" vintage repairs and experiments. Go ahead. Drag that turd across a tortilla.

Walmart/recently manufactured major label releases: Fuck you, your impracticality, and your funkopop-ass bitchdiscs.

You don't want to use this for repeated listening of "nice" records, because compared to the very small groove, the needle on these is often technically oversized, thus putting much more wear than necessary. The ability of the ceramic pickups inside of the phonographic head to capture sound is also not as good their magnetic big brothers. Aside from the p188d, they can also look like this, as well as an infinite # of variations.

[interlockingpatches]

If I could turn back time…

Nostalgia Radio, 9 new interlocking crochet/double filet patterns, is out is now. 67 pages composed and composited by me, a doddering human intelligence from the 1900s. $10-15 sliding scale, or it's already in the Vault for subscribers.

This collection includes the largest and most complex patterns I've written so far (see the ludicrous Reel-to-Reel), but also beginner-friendly motifs like the MP3 Player and Boombox, which require only a bit beyond granny-square-level crochet skill.

So yes. Buy these patterns, print them out (do it at work, quit), throw all your Internet-connected devices in a lake, and spend the next however-many years crocheting gramophones.

[retropopcult]

A promotional photograph from RCA Victor, c. 1950

From Wikipedia: "The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable and higher-fidelity replacement for the 78 rpm shellac discs. The first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc."

"As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s. Columbia Records, which had released the ​33 1⁄3 rpm 12-inch vinyl LP in June 1948, also released ​33 1⁄3 rpm 7-inch vinyl singles in March 1949, but they were soon eclipsed by the RCA Victor 45."

[thriftstoresisyphus]

Tammy Faye Bakker "Don't Give Up"

[mahgnib]

45-RPM picture sleeves. RIP.

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Mint Green ~

[tilbageidanmark]

LPs

[blondebrainpowered]

On December 6th, 1877, Thomas Edison records "Mary Had A Little Lamb" on his newly invented recording device, the cylinder phonograph.