Classical Records and Turntables
I hear that Ars Antiqua is going out of business and having a huge sale of used classical records. This is a local Bloomington business that publishes the standard catalog of values for used classical records and is one of the world’s leading sellers of them. Anyone interested in unusual recordings of classical music– or just in records generally– should take notice.
Jeff Stake taught me something useful recently about record players, by the way. I had the problem that my turntable skipped when my children jumped in the living room. He suggested I put it on a shelf attached to the wall instead of on a table sitting on the floor, because the vibrations from the jumping are not trasnmitted much from floor to wall. That worked, and made better use of space besides.
August 18th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I have some 33 & 1/3 LP records of War World II, V-Day in Europe. The records are close to 60 years old. My problem is, I can’t find a turnable to play a 33 & 1/3 LP. The turn-tables that are made for today’s market will only play a 33 LP record. I tried buying turn-tables with pinch control but the record still plays real slow. Can you point me to a vendor that sells old turn-tables that will play my records. I need to know if the records are still good but I can’t tell because they won’t play properly.