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Flexi discs and how I love the internet.
Apr. 14th, 2011 03:09 pmI really enjoy the digital age. :-) I stumbled on an old memory and was happy to find the internet willing to help me relive it.
It started by getting a geeky link in my feeds for a couple who were getting married that had a unique wedding invitation created by their friend. The couple: she is a lawyer and DJ by night, and he is a Grammy nominated sound engineer. So what goes best? An invitation that folds into a record player, that plays a flexidisc record of a song the couple wrote together when you spin the record at 45 rpm. It is a little piece of awesome! http://kellianderson.com/blog/2011/04/a-paper-record-player/
That reminded me that the last time I remember playing with a flexidisc was probably with what I now understand to be the most widely distributed flexidisc in history. That would be the Songs of the Humpback Whales disc distributed in the January 1979 issue of National Geographic.
I remember when that issue arrived, and I remember the pleading it took to get the 'rents to let me use the "big people" record player to play it.
And the internet being what it is, somebody was kind enough to store the track in an accessible place so that I don't have to wonder where the original flexidisc went...
Too cool!
It started by getting a geeky link in my feeds for a couple who were getting married that had a unique wedding invitation created by their friend. The couple: she is a lawyer and DJ by night, and he is a Grammy nominated sound engineer. So what goes best? An invitation that folds into a record player, that plays a flexidisc record of a song the couple wrote together when you spin the record at 45 rpm. It is a little piece of awesome! http://kellianderson.com/blog/2011/04/a-paper-record-player/
That reminded me that the last time I remember playing with a flexidisc was probably with what I now understand to be the most widely distributed flexidisc in history. That would be the Songs of the Humpback Whales disc distributed in the January 1979 issue of National Geographic.
I remember when that issue arrived, and I remember the pleading it took to get the 'rents to let me use the "big people" record player to play it.
And the internet being what it is, somebody was kind enough to store the track in an accessible place so that I don't have to wonder where the original flexidisc went...
Too cool!
