James May: The Reassembler

[MartG]

The Don of Croy said:

Never seen a 16 rpm setting before - we had 33, 45 and 78 (with discs to use at all settings!) on our Bush gramophone, but what was 16 rpm used for...?

I have vague memories of spoken word LPs that ran at 16 - the original audiobooks I guess

[eldar]

MartG said:

I have vague memories of spoken word LPs that ran at 16 - the original audiobooks I guess

I think you are right. The RNIB provided them as talking books for the blind, prior to moving to cassettes.

[Evangelion]

Francis Rossi once said he used to play Shadows singles at 16 rpm to slow them down enough to learn them.

[mfmman]

Agree on the 16rpm format, my gran had a record player with this function. Didn't know about the RNIB thing, although Gran went blind in her fifties I think the compact cassette would have been in use by then

[anonymous-user]

Halmyre said:

techiedave said:

watched a cracker about the record player tonigh
great programme great guy and great at bringing back memories

Yes; we had a Dansette exactly like that (don't remember the Bermuda name though). At some point we acquired a second one and they both ended up in the loft. Some years ago when prices of such things perked up I mentioned them to my mum. 'Oh, I threw them out a while back'. Mothers, eh?

Never did trust the multi-play gimmick - the whole stack would occasionally come crashing down.

The Dansette was replaced by this beast:

OMG for a minute there I thought that was the same music centre my dad bought. Its not its similar looking. I think our first music entre was a GEC. My first record player was a Fidelity UA8 one of these:

[Halmyre]

techiedave said:

Halmyre said:

techiedave said:

watched a cracker about the record player tonigh
great programme great guy and great at bringing back memories

Yes; we had a Dansette exactly like that (don't remember the Bermuda name though). At some point we acquired a second one and they both ended up in the loft. Some years ago when prices of such things perked up I mentioned them to my mum. 'Oh, I threw them out a while back'. Mothers, eh?

Never did trust the multi-play gimmick - the whole stack would occasionally come crashing down.

The Dansette was replaced by this beast:

OMG for a minute there I thought that was the same music centre my dad bought. Its not its similar looking. I think our first music entre was a GEC. My first record player was a Fidelity UA8 one of these:

Ours was a Ferguson Studio 6. I like to think my ex-farming father picked it because it was a Ferguson (although in reality it was probably my mum's choice).

[anonymous-user]

Found one like ours

[MartG]

techiedave said:

Found one like ours

That looks very familiar

[anonymous-user]

Unlike many others of that era the GEC had a Garrard deck instead of the more common BSR

[bexVN]

MartG said:

The Don of Croy said:

Never seen a 16 rpm setting before - we had 33, 45 and 78 (with discs to use at all settings!) on our Bush gramophone, but what was 16 rpm used for...?

I have vague memories of spoken word LPs that ran at 16 - the original audiobooks I guess

I had a record player with 16rpm it was funny listening to records at that speed and useful sometimes if you needed to know the words of a song

The record player I grew up with (my parents pride and joy for many years!!)



And this is the nearest I can find to the first record player my Dad gave to me. This one had the 16rpm. Great memories!!

Edited by bexVN on Thursday 19th January 20:40

[FiF]

Need three hands for soldering.

[anonymous-user]

bexVN the front left hand side of your parents thing looks so like the front of one of the first video recorders its unreal !

[bexVN]

techiedave said:

bexVN the front left hand side of your parents thing looks so like the front of one of the first video recorders its unreal !

I know what you mean. They were for the cassette player and you had to push whichever button you needed all the way down.I loved it, though we were rarely allowed to touch it!! The cassette player did pack up in the end so we were then allowed to 'mess around' with them. I had it in my room eventually, I was so chuffed when they let me have it. Not sure what happened to it in the end though, must find out!

[checkmate91]

Evangelion said:

Francis Rossi once said he used to play Shadows singles at 16 rpm to slow them down enough to learn them.

I've got a Shadows 7" EP Shadows to the Fore, inherited from my father, Apache, Man of Mystery, The Strangers and FBI. It gets a regular Sunday morning ironing chores playout I can tell you! Fantastic stuff, usually followed by Johnny Winter Captured Live or Roy Buchanan Loading Zone. Now, back to the Studio...

[evoivboy]

Heads up 4 part xmas series tonight 7pm bbc4

[Whatsmyname]

Reminded me of a show I used to watch as a kid,

The secret life of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baFaEvBywGc

[miniman]

evoivboy said:

Heads up 4 part xmas series tonight 7pm bbc4

Repeats but still worth a watch

[Cfnteabag]

I got excited when I saw it on the planner then realised it was repeats! 😫

[GetCarter]

It's the perfect viewing after a long day and a couple of glasses of wine.

Gentle, soporific and some intelligent humour.

He really needs to reassemble a Lotus 7.

[ajprice]

GetCarter said:

He really needs to reassemble a Lotus 7.

Without the other two
https://youtu.be/eA76ghh6nrs