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Wot larks! Got this in a charity shop yesterday afternoon for £35. It's a Decca "Crescendo" portable wind-up gramophone from around 1930 or so - came with some rather battered but playable 78s. I must dig out the ones I have in the upstairs cupboard. Works a treat and is unbelievably loud. Beats an iPod hands down.

Perfect for annoying the neighbours on a sunny afternoon while sitting out in the garden in my white suit, straw hat, drinking Pimms... don'cha know.

Cheers,

Will

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Hello Will,  

Record player is a nice find,  cannot be that many still around.

Just to illustrate how much things have moved on the picture is of a small flash drive 32 gb which I use in the car,  it holds 5,060 mp3 songs,  doubtful I'll ever hear them all.  :jig:

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Incredible isn't it - the enormous advance in technology in a relatively small number of years.

Cheers,

Will

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Incredible isn't it - the enormous advance in technology in a relatively small number of years.

Cheers,

Will

Certainly is.

When I first started selling computers we raved about the first 15mb hard drive [emoji1] . Hardly stores one mp3 track now.

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4 hours ago, autowind said:

the picture is of a small flash drive 32 gb which I use in the car,  it holds 5,060 mp3 songs

Only problem is when you loose such a small thing...there goes all the 5K mp3!!!

I side with Will, I don't thing that gramophone can be misplaced! :D

Cheers,

Bob

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Well, I haven't tried putting it on a key ring yet!

Interestingly, all the motors for Decca Crescendo gramophones were made in Switzerland.

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Vich Distinguished Member

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There is a return to vinyl from digital going on.  I have to admit with tinnitus in both ears I never bother paying a fortune for stereo systems but the last one I bought a short time ago had facility for vinyl, usb, sd card and even a tape player that allows me to save all my old stuff like The Goons tapes and old Billy Connoly LPs, John Mayal Blues from Laurel Canyon (Classic stuff) et seq. I have to digital.  £89.00 courtesy of Class Olsen.

There is still little as irritating as a scratch across a vinyl record.

hey ho in Crete now 88f, but home tonight. Can't wait to freeze off my nethers.

Cheers,

Vic

 

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I've been a fan of LPs up to fairly recently... My record player has been acting up and I got fed up of taking it down to the repair-man.

There are new ones for sale but as they cater to the connoisseur end of the market, they're a bit overpriced for me. Easier to find a radio channel that's playing something good.

Anil

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will, if the neighbors complain too loudly, you can always turn it up and drown them out. of course, if they call the plod, you've got another problem.

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