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29th Jun 2015, 1:27 PM
	Pridesale Member since Mar 2013 805 Points	Neil Forbes wrote: Pridesale wrote: Juke Jules wrote: I dug out some Kidditunes 6" 78s and noticed that they are microgroove 78s, with the legend "Use any needle - Play on any gramophone" on the rear of the sleeve I think they were often played on those red plastic battery turntables with inbuilt speaker, sold in toy departments of suburban department stores, they sounded terrible, when I was 3 I ran away from one to find a proper record shop. Those toy gramophones - didn't have any electronics in them at all(save, maybe, for the electric motor) They played the disc accousticly. Some had clockwork(wind-up) drives. I know. As a kid I had one(the electric motored variety). Yeah. they sounded ghastly but as kids we never really noticed or cared. Wasn't there the How! or Blue Peter trick of playing records with an ordinary pin pushed through corrigated cardboard ?

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