God yes, it's all coming back to me now.

Stylus 

Indeed we are.  But we don't mind mixing with the hoi polloi.

Ohhhhhh! many times I did that! It was amazing the stuff that built up on there 

She thought she was at the hairdresser's, didn't you Col..?

Thank God for that or
I'd have lost friends on here long ago!

Stylus:  the belly button of the audio world.



When I think of what some people (mainly grotty, snotty schoolboys) did with their sleeves, we are positively refined, Soozy.

Oh and the traumas when you had to buy a new stylus

I remember that, you had to have the exact make and model of the damn thing otherwise it would fit.

Well I never really overly suffered with a fluffy stylus - a sleeve can often be a wonderful thing 

Issy  and
~Cosmo
Your posts are lovely.     Gives me warm feelings.

Thanks Brisket - music is so evocative isn't it?
And it always brings people together which is evident in this forum.

Flippin eck!

Yep, it does me   (I'm really not a sad git you know) 

Aww, Brisket, thank you!  What a lovely thing to say.


Slightly Off topic:  I've got a load of letters written by great aunts and uncles during the war.  Every single one of them fondly recalls family gatherings and happier times.  There's talk of melodians, accordians, dancing in parlours, playing the spoons and NEVER being allowed to pawn the clapped out family piano.

If it wasn't so personal, I post them on here purely for their evocative memories of what music meant to them all.

Sheesh, I'm going a bit wobbly lipped now.

Cosi - music has always been a huge part of my family and extended family. I can still remember family parties always ending with "New York New York"

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww - how lovely - I have very similar memories (although I don't think we ever had a piano in the family) unfortunately I have no written evidence - it;s all remembered from what I heard as a kid. I have a really good memory - I think I should write my memories down for my kids.

You're very lucky to have that.

Cosi

My friend's great-aunt, who is 90, wrote her memoirs in longhand. My friend typed them, then had them published and gave a copy to all her family. She (my friend) is my son's godmother, so she gave him a copy of the book too. It is an incredible read

Cosi
Indeed we are.  But we don't mind mixing with the hoi polloi.

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Hmm, Cosi, cotton wool was the cleaner of choice for me, and then picking off the little strands that got snagged in the rough edges of outer pressing.

Love that NTNOCN clip! 

still got all mine...i'd never get rid of them........

i remember some of my records used to 'jump'.......so i used to cellotape a coin over the stylus to try and weight it down.......

also used to have the old tape recorder to tape my records onto......i'd position it in the middle of the room.....and then when i'd play it back there'd be background noise like me dad coughing his guts up or me mum shouting in the kitchen....

*Remembers getting kicked out  of a wedding party to that*     Yes folks, I was having such a good time I was one of the last one's to leave 

I used to tape the hit parade on a Sunday evening from the radio.,... it had to be absolute silence in my bedroom  but invariably my Dad would barge in and ask a daft question..

Issy, Soozy - all of you, write it all down.
Reading back and getting a glimpse into my grandfather and his siblings lives, albeit war time, was a wonderful luxury.  I'd heard snippets, and of course I remember being a kid with all my family at weddings, parties and spontaneous get togethers, but to see it in print and recalled first hand... I dunno, it really strikes home and shows a depth of fun and love that's not so often immediately evident.

I even learnt that my great gran was Scottish and did a mean Highland Fling whether you wanted her to or not! 

You have to pass daft stuff like this on to your kids.

Oh yeah! the plug in microphone on the stand  

Yup In the middle of Elvis' The Wonder of You my mother can be clearly heard shouting Dinner's ready

Or the blasted DJ would talk over the intro of the song.

Cosmo! Thats brilliant! 

Hated that! They did it deliberately I'm sure

Tony Blackburn was always doing that..

A sleeve - just as good and far cheaper 

See...?  This is the type of thing I mean.  Rexi that sounds wonderful

How many of us forget events..? yet the most obscure or bizarre moments are remembered SO easily because of the music playing at the time?  Even Sprouty recalls New York, New York 'cos she got slung out!

But not a Ronco sleeve!

My Dad wrote some of his memoirs - round about how he met my Mum and he printed them out and gave us all a copy.
Dad was stationed abroad in the war and he and Mum wrote to each other ... they kept all the letters - around 500 and we have them all.
My Mum kept daily journals for over 30 years - right up to when she died... They are  an amazing history of our family..

Pfffft - could have been any one of a number of songs I reckon

Actually I feel a bit ashamed. My father in law is 90, fought in WW2 and I roll my eyes a bit when he starts on his war stories

Of course.........home taping was illegal you know