Mike Hobart Posted August 4, 2007 Report Share Posted August 4, 2007 Listening to Phillip Hunt's Sounds of Brass show on the BBC Radio Player website, I was intrigued to hear that some of the tracks he was playing came from a bag of vinyl LP records that a fan of brass band music had passed on to him. I knew that in Australia few radio studios come with turntables or record players. My local station had a Vinyl Week recently where they played stuff on vinyl every afternoon, and they had to get technicians in specially to install a turntable. So I fired off an e-mail to Phillip asking if his studio at Radio Devon still had one and got the following answer promptly: Dear Michael, Yes it does, not one but two in fact. How much longer they will survive I do not know, but there are still some of us who use them regularly. I just breathe a sigh of relief every week when I go in to still find them there. Nice to see the old technology still survives in some isolated pockets of the Empire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qryos Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 ~ I know... I have my father's collection of old vinyl & was wondering where I could get parts & needles for my own turn-table.Well, there are D.J.s at raves & 'hip-hop' clubs & such that feed the demand!In Santa Clarita {in So Cali} there's a shop called 'Beats & Blunts' that sells turn-tables & parts & needles & all.There's music on that vinyl that hasn't been digitized yet & it still needs to be heard.It's nice to know that the way & means are still available, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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