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Jumat, 12 Oktober 2012

Phonograph Needles Are Still In Style

By Louisa Purpura


Before online streaming capabilities and mp3s music existed. Before compact discs, cassette and reel to reel tapes music was already in full swing. Music was first provided to consumers in a personal use form through vinyl. It has been referred to as records, albums, 78s, and 45s. They were played on record players or turntables. The sound would not be possible if phonograph needles had not been invented.

A metal stylus or needle rides in grooves of vinyl records. Peaks and valleys are in the records grooves. They correspond with what was recorded. Through manipulation of magnets and electricity sounds are amplified through speakers. If one says that a speaker is the heart of music on turntables then phonograph needles are the soul.

The music industry has kept the use of turntables alive. The foundation was in the rap area of the industry through the technique of mixing multiple songs simultaneously and scratching. Now the techniques can be seen in other genres of music. The types of turntables used in these situations usually require cartridges.

Today most turntable, record player, and original phonograph owners possess them as antiques or collectors items. This puts turntable needles and turntable cartridges within a group along with carburetors as well as other vintage auto parts.

The half lives of the average music player has changed drastically over the last century. Phonographs, after being invented in 1877, were sold to the public one year later. Exactly one hundred years later the technology was still driving the worlds primary form of music player. A decade later it was on the way out while cassette tapes and compact discs were reigning supreme due to their portability.

It is believed that vinyl will continue being the standard for all music. Like Morse code to the art of texting, slide rules to an engineering calculation, and black and white film to motion pictures, round records will always be known as the type that started all of it.

There are shops which specialize in unique musical products like needles. There is not one standard needle that fits all. Every different type of turntable developed can require a different form of cartridge. In some situations inventories were purchased from manufacturers that stopped production of stereos and replacement parts. These are made available to consumers through various websites. Internet searches will provide lists of them.

Phonograph needles undoubtedly will maintain the link to the days of vinyl. It is possible the next forms of music could be in the form of neural telepathic downloads. These can be purchased with neural linked credit cards. One never knows.




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