What is a record player?

Question

My Dad said he used to listen to his record player. What is that??

Answer 1

Are you kidding? You can not seriously be joking...

Answer 2

It's a turntable device that spins around and plays thin vinyl discs that are 12" in diameter if the speed is 33 revolutions per minute; and about 6" if 45 RPM; in addition 100 years ago they originally were 78 RPM and about 10-11" in diameter. Such devices used a needle at the end of an arm that was placed at the outside of the "record" and stopped when done at the inside, at which point the arms usually automatically lifted up and was place on a support on the outside of the disc.

Answer 3

record player or phonograph, device for reproducing sound that has been recorded as a spiral, undulating groove on a disk. This disk is known as a phonograph record, or simply a record (see sound recording). In using a record player, a record is placed on the player's motor-driven turntable, which rotates the record at a constant speed. A tone arm, containing a pickup at one end, is placed on the record. The tone arm touches the groove of the record with its stylus, or needle. As the record revolves, the variations in its groove cause the stylus to vibrate. The stylus is part of the pickup, a device that also contains a transducer to convert these mechanical vibrations into corresponding electrical signals. These signals are then increased in size by an amplifier. After leaving the amplifier, they are passed to a loudspeaker that converts them into sound.

Answer 4

Yea, a record player was a type of way for music to be recorded on and listened to and actually works a lot like a CD works. a CD works by a laser reading little tiny grooves in the disc and a vinyl record worked the same way except the grooves are larger and instead of a laser it was a needle that read the grooves in the vinyl record.

Answer 5

The "Record Player" or Phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison. It used a vinyl disk with groves cut into it. A needle ran in this grove. The music was reproduced when the needle would vibrate. These vibrations would be picked up by electromagnets hooked to the needle, making current that was sent to a amp. The amp boosted the current and sent it to the speakers. Ta Da! Music!
Check this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph

Answer 6

Well Frank....I'm going to spare the lengthy insults and simply advise you do a Yahoo search for pictures of a "record turntable", something wildly popular from the 50's to 80's---before being all but phased out by CD's and MP3 (which you evidently are only familiar with).

Answer 7

a record player is a music player that plays these huge cd like types. when you put a needle on the record, it plays the music. there are single records, which play one song on each side. regular records play a bunch of songs on each side.

Answer 8

It's like this music player, bigger than a cd, and in order to play it, place the needle on the record to hear it. I know it isn't helping either. Here's a video of what it looks like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7UYYgwQuKk

Answer 9

It is a machine that plays records. Recordings of music. They are plastic disk. My brother has some. He has two different
sizes. One is called L.P and it is large, and he has 45's. Some of those are Elvis Presley and others of course.

Answer 10

confident, I actually have a stereo that encompasses a turntable, a cassette participant, an equalizer, and a pair of floor audio equipment that are located on suitable of two cabinets. I additionally very own 2500 albums (confident, the black vinyl variety) and approximately 3 hundred cassettes, of distinctive genres.

Answer 11

They used to put music on big black vinyl records and you would put them on a turntable that would spin and you put a needle on the record and it would play music or whatever. God, I feel old!!!