Technical Wizardry 443
By MRDRCAT on May 23, 2024 2:55 am
I have a completely booked weekend starting...tomorrow. So I had to get this finished early.
I sampled one of the most confusingly magical pieces of vintage tech I own: a 1970 Rock-Ola 443 jukebox. It wasn't working when we bought it, but after much trial and error I got it running pretty well. The mechanism is hypnotic to watch. There's so much stuff going on after you make your selection: the record carriage rotates, the read-in and read-out arms spin to find the proper stopping point for the carriage, the turntable starts and then the Big Arm grabs your 45 and throws it on the platter. Every part has its own sound, and the sample starts with power on (and the clicking & pinging of the fluorescent tubes turning on).
Anyway. I had fun. The levels are too high. Not sure if it counts as a song. But it's done!
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