Make your own record player

Scratching from the late 1950s

I found a 1958 Italian ‘animal alphabet’ book yesterday in the Market with a record in the back cover. I couldn’t resist, so £1 exchanged hands and I scurried home to get to work building a record player.

Making a record player is one of the more curious skill sets I acquired from a childhood without TV.

Here’s Elliot passing an enthralled two minutes, er… ‘scratching’ away with the device to create a few squawky little Italian phrases.

All you need is a pen top, a needle, some cardboard and a record. That’s a round thing with grooves in it that makes sounds, kids.

Quality sound reproduction .to0, don’t you think?