BuckMulligan,

Thanks for that info.

If I understand you correctly a record player needs more than a turn table to be a functioning player of records.

Right?

Well, maybe I am totally confused but I've heard folks in my neck of the woods use 'turn table' as a referent for record players, hi-fis, stereos... I recall about 20 years or so ago I went to a Sears department store to buy a record player because my old one was caput. I asked the salesperson in what I thought was the appropriate department-given that I saw speakers and such- did the sell record players and he said they sold turn tables. I bought one that went with the speakers and radio and CD player components.

Over the years I would periodically having the Sears repair man come out to my house to fix various things that went wrong with that 'sound system' or whatever you call that music playing thing I had purchased. One of the things I could count on asking the repairman for was needles for the record player.

Fast forward about 5 years ago, after not having played my 33 1/3 records or my 45 records for a while, I went to a large chain record store and asked the young salesperson did he sell those yellow plastic thingies that you put in the middle of 45s so you could play them on a record player. The guy said "45s?". He had no clue what I was talking about.

I asked that same salesmen if he had any needles for record players and I got the same look of confusion he had given me before.

I then realized that times- they were changing. Or rather-time had changed and I had become an oldie [but goody].

And here we are in the Mp something age and the Ipod and Lord knows what else and its just been three years or so that I've reluctantly switched from casette tapes to CDs.

I'm trying to keep up with this modern generation...I guess I gotta take some Geritol {if they even still sell that product}..

And no Viagra jokes, please.

:o)