Once you get it up and running, make sure to change the needle with every play!

Wood Goblin wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:24 pm Once you get it up and running, make sure to change the needle with every play!

A distinct downside, yeah, though those "Tungstone" multi-play needles could play up to 60 sides! (Still well short of the 200 they advertised.)

Maurice wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:17 pm You're welcome, Randall! Just out of curiosity, do you have the tabletop or the floor-standing model? I'd think the floor-standing model might have more room in which to work for servicing it, though you should be able to work even the tabletop model, if you need to.

Floor-standing! Got a gang of 78's I'm itchin' to explore.

wood goblin wrote:Once you get it up and running, make sure to change the needle with every play!

Definitely! There's a dish with a buncha needles in it.

rsmurphy wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 5:56 pm

Maurice wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:17 pm You're welcome, Randall! Just out of curiosity, do you have the tabletop or the floor-standing model? I'd think the floor-standing model might have more room in which to work for servicing it, though you should be able to work even the tabletop model, if you need to.

Floor-standing! Got a gang of 78's I'm itchin' to explore.

Fellow floor-standing-Victrola-owner fist-bump!

(Not moving mine into the house yet, though: I have to clean off mildew colonies on the finish.)

My gf is out working in the yard. She’s got this thing where she likes to listen to classical music when she does stuff. A big old Tchaikovsky crescendo caused a complaint from a neighbor. I sympathize with the neighbor. It does get pretty maddening after awhile.

rsmurphy wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:51 am

I got this many many years ago--it's a freak scene. Jazz bagpipes essentially impossible but it's an entertaining attempt.

eephus wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 5:52 pm

rsmurphy wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:51 am

I got this many many years ago--it's a freak scene. Jazz bagpipes essentially impossible but it's an entertaining attempt.

You might actually like this from a couple years ago:

https://thevexcollection.bandcamp.com/a ... collection

Just walked to the store. A dude across the street was wearing golden wings.

I dropped by my favorite record store to restock them with my band's LPs. We move an impressive 1-2 a year over there. While the kind employee was checking out logistics for me I decided to browse the local section. I was confused, was this just local metal. But then a non metal band surfaced and I realized what was once a mighty wall was just two racks. Maybe 20-40 albums.

My new friend returned from what happened to be their basement and sheepishly showed she'd found two of our albums down there. If they don't sell after so many months they go down to the dungeon.

This was all a lot to take in. This place is hopping, I interrupted her filling multiple mail orders while other dude at the counter was ringing up some pricey new vinyl. Of course they don't have inventory space for some very slow moving local records (I noticed many of my friends' currently in print records were missing along with their placards). It just bums me out. When I was a kid I started learning about local music flipping through the stuff that was always there. It used to feel like a kind of directory of everyone in town who was really making stuff. We could never be the backbone for their lease, it was just kind of cultural. And once in a while a stranger would come in and buy our record which will never cease to be magical to me. I never guessed the vinyl boom would do that to my favorite record store. C'est la business!

jimmy spako wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 6:47 pm
You might actually like this from a couple years ago:

https://thevexcollection.bandcamp.com/a ... collection

Solid. Thanks for the tip!