What is a record player?
My Dad said he used to listen to his record player. What is that??
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Are you kidding? You can not seriously be joking…
a record player is kind of like a cd player….except it is larger and instead of playing cds…it plays records! hope i helped!
are you serious? what year were you born in?
this is a record player:
http://www.djtracker.com/advertimages/articles/192_record%20player.jpg
record player or phonograph, device for reproducing sound that has been recorded as a spiral, undulating groove on a disk. This disk is known as a phonograph record, or simply a record (see sound recording). In using a record player, a record is placed on the player’s motor-driven turntable, which rotates the record at a constant speed. A tone arm, containing a pickup at one end, is placed on the record. The tone arm touches the groove of the record with its stylus, or needle. As the record revolves, the variations in its groove cause the stylus to vibrate. The stylus is part of the pickup, a device that also contains a transducer to convert these mechanical vibrations into corresponding electrical signals. These signals are then increased in size by an amplifier. After leaving the amplifier, they are passed to a loudspeaker that converts them into sound.
They used to put music on big black vinyl records and you would put them on a turntable that would spin and you put a needle on the record and it would play music or whatever. God, I feel old!!!
http://www.musicmanmurray.com/recordplayers/mmm%20crossley/cr49ta_XL.jpg
it plays vinyl records…
1950’s… big cd’s but not shiny… lol
it doesnt matter. we have cd’s now.
machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically
You’re kidding, right?
It plys records. If you dont know what those are you should ask your father.
djs still use them
Yea, a record player was a type of way for music to be recorded on and listened to and actually works a lot like a CD works. a CD works by a laser reading little tiny grooves in the disc and a vinyl record worked the same way except the grooves are larger and instead of a laser it was a needle that read the grooves in the vinyl record.
It’s a turntable device that spins around and plays thin vinyl discs that are 12" in diameter if the speed is 33 revolutions per minute; and about 6" if 45 RPM; in addition 100 years ago they originally were 78 RPM and about 10-11" in diameter. Such devices used a needle at the end of an arm that was placed at the outside of the "record" and stopped when done at the inside, at which point the arms usually automatically lifted up and was place on a support on the outside of the disc.
It’s like this music player, bigger than a cd, and in order to play it, place the needle on the record to hear it. I know it isn’t helping either. Here’s a video of what it looks like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7UYYgwQuKk
It is a machine that plays records. Recordings of music. They are plastic disk. My brother has some. He has two different
sizes. One is called L.P and it is large, and he has 45’s. Some of those are Elvis Presley and others of course.
a record player is a music player that plays these huge cd like types. when you put a needle on the record, it plays the music. there are single records, which play one song on each side. regular records play a bunch of songs on each side.
Nooooooob!
The "Record Player" or Phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison. It used a vinyl disk with groves cut into it. A needle ran in this grove. The music was reproduced when the needle would vibrate. These vibrations would be picked up by electromagnets hooked to the needle, making current that was sent to a amp. The amp boosted the current and sent it to the speakers. Ta Da! Music!
Check this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph
oh…………..that,s that new fangeled contraption that make,s music out of scratched up plastic disc,s……..what will they think up next?
Well Frank….I’m going to spare the lengthy insults and simply advise you do a Yahoo search for pictures of a "record turntable", something wildly popular from the 50’s to 80’s—before being all but phased out by CD’s and MP3 (which you evidently are only familiar with).
I am 75. Phonographs were just about the only way we could enjoy music…except radios and player pianos. Phonographs played records, and records were usually either 10″ or 12″. Most records played at 78 rpm. There were other sizes and speeds, but these were the most common. I have to be careful today when I mention “records” — I have to say “something like a CD.” Some old people, like me, still have records — and phonographs to play them on. Those records only played 3 or 4 minutes, then you had to turn them over and play the other side. Some people had “record changers” — devices that could play a whole stack of records. People who like classical music got tired of getting up to change records, so someone invented the LP or long playing record. Those played for 20 to 30 minutes on a side. But that’s a whole ‘nother story. They were called “records”, too!
Until c.1990, sound was preserved ONLY in analog form, on “records”…discs (in a few cases, cylinders) which contained a single groove, in the form of a spiral, which
started at the outside (or rarely the inside) of the “record” and carried information in the form of minute variations of the groove path relative to a perfect spiral. The “tone arm” of a
“record player” contained a cartridge in turn containing a
“needle” designed to fit perfectly into the “groove” of a
“record.” This cartridge transformed any movement of its needle
into a small electric voltage (one volt or less for ctystal or
ceramic cartridges…a few thousandths of a volt for modern
magnetic “hi-fi”/stereo cartridges. This tiny signal is then electronically amplified to a level which can drive speakers!
For the most part, the term “record player” was common from c.1940 until the sixties. It referred to small table-top machines capable of playing any of the then-common forms of
“records”…polyvinyl “45’s” and “LP’s” (33.3 rpm) which used
“microgrooves (<.001″) or, to a decreasing degree, “78’s”
(which played at 78.26 rpm, with grooves c. .003″ in width).
These machines could once be acquired VERY cheaply (including
by beating the “garbage truck” to a discarded example…?!) but,
sadly, are now becoming expensive/rare “antiques” as us Baby-
Boomers age and increase our incomes and thus our “spendin’ cash!!
FEH!!!
Steven C. Barr
(who currently owns almost 57,000 old “78’s”…?!)