GramMoPhon

[walkaboutarts]

kleine nachtigall!

[rweerakkody4565]

I play my records with this same principle, only that I use a paper horn and a blunt needle. I use my hand to turn the record. Better apply the crank like this one. Very cool record player. Its more fashionable than my method. :))

[TekknoPizza]

@rweerakkody4565, Great you like it, thanks!

[ffgamerboy9]

wow so cool

[Figlitiblitification]

Wow. That is a great gramophone! I like it. I should try to make one like this

[antichitaddo]

Molto bello! ("Very nice!" in Italian, my language). I have some "Recycled materials gramophones" too. It' s funny make them. Please, can you tell me the tittle of the song which i hear? It's cool. Nice username, TekknoPizza, ahahah, XD, and thanks very much for this video! :)

[TekknoPizza]

@antichitaddo, great that you like my gramophone as well as my nickname! The song is from the early 50s as far as I know and called "Little Nightingale". Ciao from Augusta to Genova:-)

[Franco6373]

I also could send a diagram of how to do it? Thank you!

[Franco6373]

Would tell me how to do, step by step, the membrane or the tone arm? I'd appreciate it.

[TekknoPizza]

@Franco6373, membrane is a plastic lid from a glass for instant coffee which is attached to that little white piece of drain pipe that goes to the yellow speaker (it's all fixed by tape and so). The "needle system" is made from electrical stuff like wire nuts and screw joints that hold the needle and lead to the center of the lid. Chau!

[rweerakkody4565]

Its not fake. I play me records like this and its more interesting playing them yourself. :))) very lovely design

[intelX1000]

faking this would be harder than making the thing. the wood work would happen either way. the science of it is pretty simple.

[Halflifefreak08]

German song nice nice

[Karlfalcon]

Now I want to build one of these for the local children's museum.

[TekknoPizza]

@Karlfalcon, yes go for it!

[husbondensrost]

I tried to build a gramophone similar to this when I was about ten years old. Yours is much better than mine ever was.

[jmb7587]

MP3

[TekknoPizza]

@jmb7587, it's neither mp3 nor fake mate. It's a tribute to Emile Berliner :-)

[Karlfalcon]

@jmb7587

Says the teenager who has likely never held a shellac record in their hands.

BOW to the superior audio quality of a well-preserved 78!

[vonhatenfeld]

ok, now where'll you keep this rubish, in your cupboard?

[TekknoPizza]

@vonhatenfeld, I will not but I already do keep this rubbish with "double b" on my cupboard ;-)

[RICKROLLBLENDER]

now you know what the FIRST ones were like. Couple the waivering speed with records that would flatten out; which would send the needle skidding; you can see why the formula for 78s changed!

[MsYuri32]

duvido

[TekknoPizza]

@MsYuri32, no doubts please - it's no fake, all genuine and true!

[takeshitapart]

@TekknoPizza Wow you really took the time to make this. you sir, kick ASS!

[Karlfalcon]

@MsYuri32

Shun the nonbeliever!

SHUUUUUUUUUN

[vitorfrost]

Tanks. That part is OK, but my doubt is about the joint between the lid and the "plastic-bottle-speaker".

[TekknoPizza]

@vitorfrost, the lid is attached to this white piece of sink pipe with a "flush valve seal" from rubber usually used in toilet tanks. Coincidentally it fit in both perfectly. You can buy it at hardware stores. The bent sink pipe is fixed to the bottle with sticky tape.

[Bassmaster970]

@vitorfrost You sicken me! If that record could cry out for help it would.

[DIYPhonophile]

@Bassmaster970 What!!???????  He is using a 78 RPM record with a proper phonograph needle, there is no damage to the record whatsoever!

[vitorfrost]

Hello there, im going to build one Gramaphone and want some advices.

Do you have any other images showing the Diaphragm?

Tank you!

[TekknoPizza]

@vitorfrost, hello to Brazil! The diaphragm or membrane is an ordinary lid or cap from a glass for instant coffee. Google "ALDI Belmont Gold" or similar. Have fun building your own gramophone!

[roybo1930]

This actually sounds pretty AWESOME!!! I LOVE THE PLASTIC LID REPRODUCER!

[smokeynewton]

Finally! One that actually works the way it supposed to. Well done.

[jks2]

what's the record you are playing?

[TekknoPizza]

@jks2, it's an old 78 rpm shellac record from the early 1950's.

[highchampking]

spooky.

[deathinmind]

Hi, what did you use as membrane? Thanks

[TekknoPizza]

@deathinmind, membrane is the plastic cap from a glass for instant coffee.

[MKULTRA63]

What did you use for the reproducer ?

[TekknoPizza]

@MKULTRA63, reproducer is a steel needle attached with some screw joints to this plastic lid that amplifies the sound and leads it to the loudspeaker which is a plastic bottle from a household detergent.

[bullyword]

haunting sounds

[kirtley2010]

im making one of these but more complicated its a great thing

[Alphonsus0di0Ligouri]

Oh i want one of these so darned bad now. I am soo jealous! :D

[Alphonsus0di0Ligouri]

Oh i want one of these so darned bad now. I am soo jealous! :D

[Superbad2478]

Sounds like a horror movie!!!

[dopefreakdope]

You need to replace needle every time you play a record

[TekknoPizza]

@dopefreakdope, you can use the needle several times, but quality of sound starts to get lower each time - that's right!

[Antonovful]

Nice machine!

[dougie159753]

what's the name of the song/ like it XD

[TekknoPizza]

"Little Nightingale"

[Alphonsus0di0Ligouri]

@TekknoPizza any idea of the composer?

[Schachtel22]

oder auf deutsch

'Kleine Nachtigall'

also es ist auf deutsch gesungen

[shadarko]

Another head exploded over here, that's 92 types of awesome.

[ardvarkd]

that is so awesome, may i request a diagram of the needle-to-speaker mechanism? if not its alright, but if so thanks in advance

[TekknoPizza]

Unfortunately I don't have any scheme of the needle-to-speaker device, but I try to explain it a little: this appliance is put together from electronic scrap like luster terminals and other stuff from wall sockets or plugs. The gramophone needle is fixed to one of these wire-nut type of things by a screw. A spike leads the vibrations to the middle of this plastic lid (again all attached by screw joints) who enhances the noise (music) and sends it through sink-pipe to the plastic-bottle-speaker.

[ardvarkd]

also, does the needle in damage the disc?

[TekknoPizza]

No, it doesn't. The disc is an old 78rpm shellack record and the needle an ordinary gramophone needle.

Records in general slowly wear out the more you play them, that's all.

[W2QYVkz789]

WOW! And you has used the correct mechanism. I advice you to put there any electric engine for the moviment of the disc. But the idea is EXCELLENT!!!

[TekknoPizza]

It's on purpose - completely without any electric device!

[dustin11]

My head just exploded.

[TekknoPizza]

I'm sorry about that:-)