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Philips manual turntable?

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dav305z

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My father says he had a manual Philips turntable in the late 70's/early 80's. The way he remembers it, there was actually no power motor on the table. Rather you wound it up and it would spin for the duration of the record.

Anyone know what this turntable was and if they're possible to get a hold of these days? I'd really like to get him one as a present (I actually broke the tonearm on his original when I was a baby, and he has not owned a turntable since).
 
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He may have had it in the 70s or 80s, but I doubt that it was built then. Windup record players were fairly common before the 50s or 60s (Thorens, which used to make music boxes got into turntables via windups).
 
Actually, they were pre-WWII. By the end of the war they were gone or virtualy gone from production. Electric turntables were pretty well establishd by the end of the '30s.
 
I remember having one as a child, which I believe was originally supplied to members of the armed forces in WWII. And I suspect that windups hung in there in the third world rather longer than in the US. But certainly they were on their way out long before I encountered one.
We also had a film projector that you cranked by hand (not even wind up). Can't remember whether it had an electric bulb.
 
I remember them in school into the '60s but, they were pre-WWII and only the audio angel in the sky knows why the school even had them other than they play 78 rpm and I think 16rpm. They were in the music room and in the library.
 
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