>My dad collects them - them and pinball machines. Can't beat
>vinyl'n'valve for your music, though

Huh. Sweet.

I have an old DuMont record player, from the days when record players were still pieces of furniture, in my living room - it came with the house. Lovely wooden cabinet, big mono speaker, surprisingly sophisticated stack-of-LPs feed system. I've only got two LPs for it: the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night and Chubby Checker's Twist Party. It spends most of its time as an occasional table, but every now and then I take the pile of book and whatnot off it, open it up, dust off the records and give it a whirl. The volume knob doesn't really work now - there's only one position it can be in where the amp does anything at all - and I'm constantly afraid that one of these times it'll pack up altogether, so I run it only rarely and on special occasions.

--G.
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