Mystery object:
Take a guess. It’s not difficult to guess, but those of a certain vintage will get it immediately.
Comments:
Well Dan beat me by 15 minutes… 
I remember when I bought my Phillips manual table, the strobe was built into the side of the platter so you could calibrate (I would have never said ‘adjust’) with a disc on the machine.
At the time I told myself that such things mattered… Ugh.
Time cures these things…
My turn? The 45 rpm adapter widget? Aw, c’mon.
Just thought I’d soak in the history of ‘high technology’ ...
Turntable timer thingie.(funny, I’ve been looking at things like His Master’s Voice for some basic audio stuff I’m writing for my new site at http://familyoralhistory.us/).
For some reason, it makes me very sad that modern youth will never know the ‘joy’ of watching those 33 1/3 rpm labels circle around in synch with some songs ... Bad Company’s “Running with the Pack” instrumental comes to mind ... or watching those inevitable warps mark time to the music (while we hoped it wouldn’t make the needle hop) ...
Heh. Was just taking pictures this morning of phonograph playing, in order to show stylus close up, and because I know it makes sense to ME, but when I say yadda yadda yadda about phonograph album, I at least want to have a picture of that (gasp!) ancient audio technology so the younguns know whereof I speak. Doc M and I had to deal with three songs and then you gotta take the stylus off the inside track, and turn it over. I’d forgotten how short a single album side is! :D
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“...of a certain *vintage* “? I feel as though I’ve been decanted!
Anyway, that would be a strobe disc used to sync a turntable’s speed to the established standards.
Memories there, man… My Garrard Zero 100 had a built in strobe running off the 60 cycle (‘hertz’, yes it does *g*) to handle the issue of ‘wandering RPMs’.
Your turn:
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