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Vinyl? Pish-tosh, I have some REALLY old-school tunage for you (Original Post) jmowreader Dec 2017 OP
The accompaning video to be on VCR Beta denbot Dec 2017 #1
Shellac came before Vinyl, and REAL music played back at 78 RPM. nt Binkie The Clown Dec 2017 #2
Oh, nertz. You know better than that. jmowreader Dec 2017 #7
LOL! My dad had one of those wire recorders back in the early 50s Binkie The Clown Dec 2017 #8
Does it displode when you push the handle down? NBachers Dec 2017 #3
get your edison discs out and sing along msongs Dec 2017 #4
You lose flotsam Dec 2017 #5
Loved my 67 stang, put the crappy 8 track in it myself! Canoe52 Dec 2017 #6

Binkie The Clown

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8. LOL! My dad had one of those wire recorders back in the early 50s
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 01:47 PM
Dec 2017

My sister and I used to play with it all the time. We would pretend to be radio announcers and read ad copy from magazines in our most professional radio announcer voices. What memories that brings back.

And when we broke a wire we would tie it back together with a little knot and it would make a bump sound as it played through the recording head.

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