[Jukebox-list] Why the saphire needles?

[David Breneman]

--- rodehond <rodehond at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Yeah, right...! Steel and bamboo? Swedish and Korean jukeboxes?

Well, lots of early 30s jukeboxes used steel needles, didn't
they?  Some even had automatic mechanisms for changing them.
Some didn't, and with the weight of those early horseshoe magnet
pickups, the records seldom lasted more than a week.


David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com


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