SH Spotlight Ever see an old 1929 electric phonograph with a steel needle in action? Take a look.

Beave

 

Do you know what this is worth????!!!!!!!!
Holy Schmidt!!
Beave

 

Niiiiice.
Beave

 

My father was born under nazi occupation. He had a front row seat for 'A Bridge Too Far' except he was only three, but he has dim memories of a dead soldier hanging from a parachute and starving. Biggest music lover (and a performer still) and I guess the first record collector I ever met. Who knows what music he heard early on to grab his imagination, maybe something like the recording that started this thread?

 

This video from the same folks shows a needle being inserted.

 

Steve - are you referring to the audio transfer for the YouTube clip because presumably the music was recorded originally with a single microphone, when the record was made?

 

I love the look of that tonearm. Modern tonearms have been so focused on output quality (not a bad thing) that they have very little character.