These are different devices for playing music over the years.

1896 Edison coin slot phonograph.

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smoothcriminal12 said:

The Best!

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Something to play my 78 rpm records on.

And my 8 track tapes

And my cassettes

And my minidiscs.

And my first mp3 player.

MickyDolenz said:

CLICK CLICK

not sure if these qualify , they do play music

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[img:$uid]http://i.ytimg.com/vi/DhFRvSymDE8/0.jpg[/img:$uid] (what's this called in english btw ?)

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The latest music player novelty:

1962

Many people are aware of 45, 33, & 78 RPM records. But there was a fourth speed, which was 16 RPM. It was mostly used for speeches and spoken word albums and could hold more time than a 33 RPM album. Here a video of a Jim Reeves record at this speed.

MickyDolenz said:

Many people are aware of 45, 33, & 78 RPM records. But there was a fourth speed, which was 16 RPM. It was mostly used for speeches and spoken word albums and could hold more time than a 33 RPM album. Here a video of a Jim Reeves record at this speed.

Interesting, we have come a long way. If our creativity with music can advance in the same way that we have electronically, then we will be OK.

Good topic!

When SONY introduced Mini-Disc, Philips & Matsushita (now Panasonic) countered with...

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...DCC (Digital Compact Cassette).

Thus initiating a short lived format war with these two manufacturing giants again.
(Beta vs VHS, Video8/Hi8 vs VHS-C/S-VHS-C)

Panasonic thought DCC would be accepted by the public as the playback hardware was also compatible with the consumer standard of the day, analog cassette tapes. However, affordable CD recorders were right around the corner and by 1996 (only 4 years after it was introduced), production was discontinued.


Music for adventurous listeners


tA

Tribal Records

Maybe the grandest "Music Player" i've seen up till now is Pat Metheny's...



...Orchestrion Project

And he actually did a concert tour with it.

Music for adventurous listeners


tA

Tribal Records

MickyDolenz said:

I'm wet.

MickyDolenz said:

I never had a Fisher Price but I did have a similar record player for older kids. Mine was a Snoopy record player. My sister had a Raggedy Ann record player and I used to take both of them and put a tape recorder microphone up next to them and try to mix. This was back when I first heard mixing during the disco era. In order for a decent recording, I had to turn the volume up real loud and tell everyone to "shhhhhhhhhhh". I used to have tapes with my grandmother in the background hollering...."Andy, turn that damn shit down!".

MickyDolenz said:

Telefunken has to be the coolest brand name ever!

DAT

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