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Offline Lona

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Record Deck
« on: April 18, 2004, 01:27 »
I'm trying to find a record deck that plays 78s. My brother-in-law has a huge collection of Frank Sinatra 78's and nothing to play them on. Anybody know where you can buy one of these. :)
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Re:Record Deck
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2004, 02:00 »
Maybe Ebay or have a look around secondhand shops Lona.
I dont think that anyone will still make them these days  :(

For the benefit of our younger members a 78 was the equivalent of a CD back in the days when Clive was in short trousers  :o

They were heavy black discs made of a hard plastic type of material called shellac, that played at 78 rpm and were about 12 inches in diameter.
You could get almost 5 minutes of not very good quality audio, in mono of course, on each side  :(

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Re:Record Deck
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2004, 10:04 »
I had a wind up gramaphone, made by His Master's Voice (HMV), right from when I was a child, up to about 15 years ago.  It was one of the more modern ones, without a horn, but I was so skint one time, I sold it in a local second hand shop for £12 to buy food and fags!  Bloody shame, as it could have been worth quite a bit had I held onto it.
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Re:Record Deck
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2004, 12:10 »
Is this the same as a normal turntable? or does it have to be something special to play 78's?

Sorry of being soooo young  ;D but are 78's the same as Vinyls?

I found this link

http://www.jabw.demon.co.uk/faq10.htm

Would anything at

http://tinyurl.com/3x6vh
 
do the job??

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Offline Lona

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Re:Record Deck
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2004, 00:09 »
Thanks for that url, DJ. :). Unfortunately these are just turntables and need to be connected to a hifi system and I doubt if they would play 78's. I have a turntable of my own, similar, but it only plays 45s and 33s. It's a standalone record player I was looking for. There are plenty on ebay but as it's for my sister's 70th birthday, I can't very well give her second hand goods.  ;D

Simon, I still have an old box HMV record player but you don't wind it up. It plays from the mains. :)
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Re:Record Deck
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2004, 00:26 »
Hiya Lona,
 
Try this as a starting point.   :)

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« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2004, 15:20 »
Thanks Rodders.  :D.  American site and all second hand.  :(
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Re:Record Deck
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2004, 15:27 »
Lona

There's one HERE but its £150  :o

I'm still looking for you - don't give up just yet  ;)

EDIT - Maybe an email to This Guy may help.

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Re:Record Deck
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2004, 15:31 »
Some more for you...

http://www.getretrocollection.co.uk/catalog4.htm

Whats your ideal price range Lona ?

EDIT - Just noticed the 2 pages show the 2 same players :doh:.
The Roxy1 is £99.99 and Roxy2 is £149.99 (Roxy2 has a CD Player).

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Re:Record Deck
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2004, 17:07 »
There aren't many about are there, the roxy1 looks fine though. Must say I am tempted myself!!  ;D
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Re:Record Deck
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2004, 22:52 »
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3091906908&category=3284

I've e-mailed the seller Lona and he says that they will both play 78's  ;)
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Re:Record Deck
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2004, 00:40 »
Excellent sites DJ but I was trying to keep my price to under £100. There is one advertised in the national press I saw but it is £169 and well out of my price range. I will bookmark those 2 sites and I might have to spend more than I first thought.


Greeny........It's for my sister's 70th birthday, do you think I am going to buy her present out of ebay.  ;D ;D ;D
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