what is A record???

Question

I found these round things up in the attic that are black and my brother says they have somthing to do with muisc. how do you make muisc come out of them???

my brother said they are called records

Answer 1

I hope you are satisfied.

You make me feel a hundred years old. I still own an old record player & a stack of "vinyl".

Answer 2

You need an old gramma phone or a record turntable. They are a large disk that turns with an arm that has a needle at the end of it. You put the needle in the slot on the record and it plays. There are two speeds that a record can play at. There is a switch on the player that adjusts the spin speed. The music has a distinct scratchy sound as it plays that only a record has. I love my old records, but you have to get used to the sound they make. Before you go and get a record player I suggest that you either find a friend with one or find the music on the internet so you can listen to it to see if you like that style of music or not

Here is a vintage record player on e-bay but you could probably go to somewhere like radio shack and get a modern turn table and amplifier for better sound
http://cgi.ebay.com/RCA-Portable-3-Speed-RECORD-PLAYER-Vintage-74_W0QQitemZ150082417466QQihZ005QQcategoryZ1442QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Answer 3

Are you that young? Yes, those black disks are called records. It was popular before the cassette, which was popular before the CD. Records replaced the 8-track.

To play it, you will need a record player, which you can still find in some stores, but they're more like relics. The record player is the precursor to the CD/DVD. Instead of using a laser to read the grooves in the CD/DVD, record players used a needle to feel the grooves in the records and produces music based on the grooves.

Answer 4

You use a record player. Its called a Victrola. It has a needle that comes in contact with little groves on the record. Its like a giant CD, and instead of a laser that reads it, a needle reads it.

Answer 5

Wow! I'd heard the jokes but I guess that it's finally happened: kids that have never seen a record!

Answer 6

Records include all books, papers, maps, photographs, machine readable materials, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by an agency of the United States Government under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by that agency or its legitimate successor as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the Government or because of the informational value in them.
(Taken from 44 U.S.C. Chapter 33, Sec. 3301)

Several key terms, phrases, and concepts in the statutory definition of records are defined as follows:

1. Documentary materials is a collective term for records, nonrecord materials, and personal papers that refers to all media containing recorded information, regardless of the nature of the media or the method(s) or circumstance(s) of recording.

2. Regardless of physical form or characteristics means that the medium may be paper, film, disk, or other physical type or form; and that the method of recording may be manual, mechanical, photographic, electronic, or any other combination of these or other technologies.

3. Made means the act of creating and recording information by agency personnel in the course of their official duties, regardless of the method(s) or the medium involved. The act of recording is generally identifiable by the circulation of the information to others or by placing it in files accessible to others.

4. Received means the acceptance or collection of documentary materials by agency personnel in the course of their official duties regardless of their origin (for example, other units of their agency, private citizens, public officials, other agencies, contractors, Government grantees) and regardless of how transmitted (in person or by messenger, mail, electronic means, or by any other method). In this context, the term does not refer to misdirected materials. It may or may not refer to loaned or seized materials depending on the conditions under which such materials came into agency custody or were used by the agency. Advice of legal counsel should be sought regarding the ``record'' status of loaned or seized materials.

5. Preserved means the filing, storing, or any other method of systematically maintaining documentary materials by the agency. This term covers materials not only actually filed or otherwise systematically maintained but also those temporarily removed from existing filing systems.

6. Appropriate for preservation means documentary materials made or received which in the judgment of the agency should be filed, stored, or otherwise systematically maintained by an agency because of the evidence of agency activities or information they contain, even though the materials may not be covered by its current filing or maintenance procedures.

Answer 7

are you for real. go find yourself a record player and find out. they are also called lps or vinyl. i have quite afew of them myself. some are worth quite a bit of money.