Originally posted by KellyJayYeah, we had some when I was a kid. My mom married this guy Bob Kelly, and we moved into his house. The house was on the small side but in my explorations, age 10 or so, I saw this room filled with 78 RPM records and some of them like you say, one sided and almost a quarter inch thick.
If I could show you the music collection one of my family members
inherited it would blow you a way. Some of records only had music on one
side, and the thickness was huge, these are some old records. 🙂
Most of them were later 78's and had decent audio quality.
The problem was, there was no record player, but I was rummaging through the room and I found a box and pulled it out and inside was a record player platter with motor and such, tonearm and needle but no amplifier or speaker.
ATT I had recently traded a model airplane engine for a diode and a pair of old style earphones.
So I am looking at the tonearm and I see these wires coming off the cartridge, and I put two visuals together, my earphones which had wires sticking out of the end of the cord and the wires to the cartridge.
So I mentally put the two together and then followed through and connected the cartridge to the earphones directly, no electronics.
Lo and behold, it worked! I could hear the music being played and with a decent volume! So I spent hours in that room playing record after record and nobody cared what I was doing, it must have been Bob's dad that had the collection because his mom, who lived there with us, NEVER went in that room. So there I was, this 10 year old kid, listening to music of a number of genre's, from classic to musical comedy to light classic to pop music of the era.
That was quite an education into music for a little kid! I wish I had all those records now. Bob and mom got divorced and my uncle bought the place and he was pretty much non cultural so I am sure all those records went into the trash.
Such a waste. Literally thousands of albums.
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Originally posted by sonhouseSo Bob wasn't your uncle?
That was quite an education into music for a little kid! I wish I had all those records now. Bob and mom got divorced and my uncle bought the place and he was pretty much non cultural so I am sure all those records went into the trash.
......I'll get my coat.
Originally posted by RJHindsLike I said, scientists have the right to be wrong. You cannot EVER be wrong or your head would explode. Scientists being wrong is what leads other people to the right path in whatever discipline is being studied.
Top 10 Most Famous Scientific Theories That Turned out to be Wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MuMPLoQZN4
That's how science works. The fact they were proven wrong shows very well science works how it is supposed to.
Originally posted by sonhouseHere we agree, where you and I tend it part company is in areas where
Like I said, scientists have the right to be wrong. You cannot EVER be wrong or your head would explode. Scientists being wrong is what leads other people to the right path in whatever discipline is being studied.
That's how science works. The fact they were proven wrong shows very well science works how it is supposed to.
they cannot be proven wrong, it has to be accepted or rejected, because
it cannot be proven.