"Walkie-Lookie"

[Phil]

Yes, my record player (actually inherited from my older sister when she left home) in the 1970s had four speeds too. The only 16 2/3 rpm discs I ever had were advertising 'flexidiscs' given away with grocery items  - very thin PVC 7-inch one-sided records. Since the backs were plain surfaces, I used some in my early experiments with turning my record player into a disc recorder (with very limited success).

I did have a 16 rpm disc of a droning male voice on flexidisc advertising Reader's Digest. This found extensive use in stage shows, played at higher speed to represent comedy voices e.g. on the other end of a telephone conversation. My, how we laughed!

Phil M1GWZ



On 5 May 2013, at 02:25, Joseph Bento wrote:

> On 5/4/2013 5:50 PM, Phil wrote:
>> "Three-speed record player announced by RCA Victor."
>> 
>> Cool.
>> 
>> Phil M1GWZ
>> 
> 
> "MY" record player was (is) a 4-speed.  It included 16rpm (16 2/3 actually)  for the talking book records.  I saw my first talking book record just this year, though it was over 40 years old.  It was released as material for the blind.  Since I am impatient and did not want to listen to it at the proper speed, I played it back at 45rpm (on a higher quality 2-speed turntable) and used Audacity to convert back to proper speed.  It was a mildly interesting conference talk from the LDS church sometime in the mid 1960's.  A friend was interested if I had the ability to transpose it to CD. Of course I can.
> 
> Joe, N6DGY
> 
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