"Ken G." wrote in message
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More wierd stuff . This plays the record standing up .



I remember these guys. Interesting player.

As others have already mentioned, Seeburg did something like this on their
jukeboxes. They used a mechanism that set the record on a vertical
turntable, and played it with a tone arm that had two needles. The tone arm
would be placed on the left or right of the record, depending on the side
that was to be played. The turntable would move in either direction, again
according to the side.

I also remember, at hi-fi shows Dual used to have a demo that played records
upside-down. This is really not hard to do -- simply adjust the
counterweight (or in the case of Dual, counterweight and counterspring).
The spindle was threaded, so a wingnut would hold the record in place. They
would hang it from the ceiling by springs. Back in the day, for whatever
strange reason, it convinced me to buy a Dual. I played mine right-side-up
however.



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Gary E. Tayman/Tayman Electrical
Sound Solutions For Classic Cars
http://www.taymanelectrical.com

Gary Tayman wrote:

"Ken G." wrote in message
...
More wierd stuff . This plays the record standing up .



I remember these guys. Interesting player.

As others have already mentioned, Seeburg did something like this on their
jukeboxes. They used a mechanism that set the record on a vertical
turntable, and played it with a tone arm that had two needles. The tone arm
would be placed on the left or right of the record, depending on the side
that was to be played. The turntable would move in either direction, again
according to the side.

I also remember, at hi-fi shows Dual used to have a demo that played records
upside-down. This is really not hard to do -- simply adjust the
counterweight (or in the case of Dual, counterweight and counterspring).
The spindle was threaded, so a wingnut would hold the record in place. They
would hang it from the ceiling by springs. Back in the day, for whatever
strange reason, it convinced me to buy a Dual. I played mine right-side-up
however.

--
Gary E. Tayman/Tayman Electrical
Sound Solutions For Classic Cars
http://www.taymanelectrical.com

I remember the Seeburg unit. There was a clothing store in Rochester NY
that had one in their men's department. Weirdest place I've ever found a
juke box.

It's too bad vinyl fizzled out when it did. There was a lot of
interesting stuff coming out at the time, including a few new turntables
that played both sides of an album and auto switched from one side to
the other. A friend had one - it may have been by Sharp - you just slid
the album partially in, it auto fed the album into position and started
playing. Front panel controls & LED display for track selection
programming as well.

Rick