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A Turntable History Question

In late 1981, or January of 1982, I took a couple of my ward sisters out to the theatre (it was a Brian Rix farce at the Apollo). Returning to Harrow, I dropped off one of them and was invited in, where I saw her husband's turntable. It was suspended at each corner by many rubber bands, and years later I assumed it was an SME that I had seen. Now I know that SME were not making turntables at that time, I wonder what it was?

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lewm
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A very smart person I used to know hung his Advent speakers from his ceiling on springs.  And yet, I would still claim he was very smart.  Smart people sometimes do dumb things.

lewm
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And you could see actual rubber bands on full display?  That sounds home-made to me. Such a suspension is like a spring suspension and needs to be damped in some way, else a disturbance would linger on. Then a second disturbance could lead to oscillation. Remember videos of that bridge in Tacoma?

lewm
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Suspended from where?  If you could see the rubber bands, I immediately had the image that it was on a shelf suspended from the ceiling by rubber bands. Because one cannot usually see the suspension of a suspended turntable out in the open.  Either what I just wrote, or the TT had a home-made suspension.

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