oldest turntable ever

Hey fellow forum members
i found this thrift store right in my neighborhood and it has like 100's of $1 albums
i found this bill whithers record but they had to close so i wasn't able to continue looking

i did see this crazy old turntable though. maybe the oldest ever lol.

this got me thinking. i wouldnt want to fix this thing up but i would like to learn a little more about electronics and kind of like making stuff out of old parts etc.
i found some sites but was wondering if any of u tech people had a favorite electronics info website or anything


oldest ever!?

not even close

@ Copper,

that TT has a 50's look to it, the phonograph below pre dates it by about 70 years



Still a cool find tho!

yeah that first 50's one looks as if it was designed to go in one of those wall unit pieces



or maybe it had some sort of case it should have been built in to.

My folks still have a 4' tall cabinet phonograph with a crank and everything. I wouldnt even play dollar records on it. The stylus is like an 1/8" thick.


EDIT:Technically, you are right, the phonograph is not a turntable. The pic in the OG post looks like a tank mounted turntable used in ww2, lmao

jonestown massacre wrote:My folks still have a 4' tall cabinet phonograph with a crank and everything. I wouldnt even play dollar records on it. The stylus is like an 1/8" thick.


EDIT:Technically, you are right, the phonograph is not a turntable. The pic in the OG post looks like a tank mounted turntable used in ww2, lmao

yeah yeah... the real question is... can you scratch on a phonograph?

you can pull the record back once before your stylus is tracking the felt pad underneath.

jonestown massacre wrote:you can pull the record back once before your stylus is tracking the felt pad underneath.

lol, man... imagine with the horn on the corner and shit... hahaha

It would be ill to find a Phonograph with Aux ins and stand on the corner with your MP and the Phono a la Damu the Fudgemunk..

damn, and i thought that one was old!

Check this out:



In the WW1-WW2 era, they used to record to steel wire, this is an old wire recorder.


"**** tape, how do I get that raw wire sound?!"

jonestown massacre wrote::lol:

Check this out:



In the WW1-WW2 era, they used to record to steel wire, this is an old wire recorder.


"**** tape, how do I get that raw wire sound?!"

ah shit, that's crazy! Yeah man... they probably were saying that about records like how we talk about youtube quality! hahaha.

the crazy thing about the original phonograph is that it doesn't even require any power to play the old records... they're 100% mechanical...

mr_debauch wrote:

jonestown massacre wrote:My folks still have a 4' tall cabinet phonograph with a crank and everything. I wouldnt even play dollar records on it. The stylus is like an 1/8" thick.


EDIT:Technically, you are right, the phonograph is not a turntable. The pic in the OG post looks like a tank mounted turntable used in ww2, lmao

yeah yeah... the real question is... can you scratch on a phonograph?

sure, you can

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zS-z_U-hKI




peace

I bet that hand puppet cant do this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=088AWsTtTFU


Try cuttin it up on cassettes!