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22nd Jan 2023, 6:09 PM
	scrough No picture 'cos I'm not into 45rpm :( Member since Jan 2013 3428 Points Moderator	Peter Adamson has recently published an article in the CLPGS 'For The Record' magazine No 84 for Winter 2022 which gives us a means to identify many of the earliest auto-couplings and seperate them from later ones. Thanks Peter!! The first versions of the Automatic Gramophone mentioned picked up a record from a 'bin' on the left, placed it on the turntable, and after playing it, turned it over before placing it in a bin on the right. This means that the coupling order (which I'll refer to as 'flip coupling') was different to the autochanger order ('drop coupling') we are very familiar with, where the first record of a set contains the first and last sides to be played. In 'flip-coupled' sets, the first record would contain the first side and the side to be played half way through the piece, so for example a three record set would have the sides coupled thus: Record 1: Side 1, Side 4. Record 2: Side 2, Side 5. Record 3: Side 3, Side 6. For three record 'drop-coupled' sets, the side order is: Record 1: Side 1, Side 6. Record 2: Side 2, Side 5. Record 3: Side 3, Side 4. Another string to our auto-change bow Edited by scrough on 8th Jun 2023, 8:22 PM

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