I had one of these as a child, I vividly remember the lettering and those birds/musical notes in the corners and I understood the ingenious principle of the operation back then. For some strange reason, I remember dunking it underwater in our bath to see if it still worked then. I can't remember if I broke it or not!
Sadly the newer turntables like I bought for my son have button under the arm to select pre-recorded tracks, there's only the "grooves" no nicks or notches to actually produce the sound.
I had one of those when I was a youngster. My favorite record was the orange one... Edelweiss from The Sound of Music. I wish I had Stairway To Heaven. It might have been a game changer for me.
I am only 9 years late to the party :) Now if someone could make the actual player so we could use the discs, that would be awesome! I had one of these as a kid also and it would be so cool to make your own records for on it but they are not easy to find, at least the ones that are not the new type with digital tracks.
I remember seeing this record player when I was little. I had a therapist that would come over to my house, and she would bring a big bag of toys for us to play with, and she would sometimes bring that record player. And I really want one for Christmas, and I don’t even give 2 craps that I’m 23 years old, and asking for this record player. But if only I knew how to make my own custom made disks for it, well, let’s just say my record collection would be large. If only I knew how to do this, and I really wish I had the money to buy the stuff to custom make the disks. I wonder how cheap or expensive it is to buy all the stuff to do this, because you seriously inspired me to want to make custom disks for my record player, if I do end up getting one.
This machine tried to look like a record player, but is in fact anything automatic music instrument. The disc has the note events encoded mechanical and the "pickup" has the sound generation. Music box style with a metal comb.
I had one of these back in the 80s also but I always had a blue purple orange pink and green records never see thru or clear They were very expensive very interesting video
This is the non-electric old version, FISHER-PRICE item #995, MUSIC-BOX-RECORD-PLAYER 1971-1983 & 1984: Sesame Street.. 9 DISCS; WITH 18 MELODIES CAN BE PLAYED on the old Music Box: *A1 Sound of music. Do Re Mi, *A2 Blue Danube = An der schönen blauen Donau *B1 Music box dancer, *B2 Barbara Allen, *C1 Round the village, *C2 Under the double eagle march = Unter dem Doppeladler Fisher Price is one of very few companies that makes toys that endure, can be used by many children and next generation(s). Their toys hardly break, although they use plastic. This first-generation Music box was made 1971-1983. I regard it as the crown jewel of the F-Price total production. Projections on the discs induce a note on the tuned comb, just as in my antique music box from 1895, with half meter/yard metal discs. The same tune, out of five disc numbers, can have any, of around 10 disc colors. All 5 discs were molded together in the same colour, then in next colour. Afterwards they were plan-mingled, so that every box would have 5 different colored discs. All boxes had the same 10 tunes, except a 1984 special edition, where the fourth disc was swapped to Sesame Street. Remarkably, no supplementary tunes were ever sold. But a carousel music box was made with six other melodies, three discs, that use the same disc system. But the title is on the wrong side of the disc, when played in the music box. I have got hold of all known 18 melodies. But to get the Sesame Street disc, I had to buy and pay the special music box on eBay in USA, and ask them to just mail me the special disc, and keep the rest. In 2010 Fisher-Price instead launched an electric model. That was a most stupid thing, but probably the Japan made music comb was expensive: *1.The electric deprived the children of the proud sensation of THEIR UNIQUE POWER: “It is only me, my winding, that can make the music”. Children don’t like toys that play without them! *2. Children are technically curious: They like to UNDERSTAND that the notches on the disc make the acoustic, mechanical music. The new discs all look the same, just stupidly give a different number signal to the 10 electronical tunes inside. Other electrical tune discs can not be made on a 3-D writer, or even by F-P, whereas home made discs have been made for the old model, and F-P could launch complementary music discs to those. *3. No compatibility between old and new: If one box breaks or lacks a melody, one can not swap the discs between the models. *4. If they had re-edited the old system, they could have supplied it with 10 new melodies, and made still more melodies! Attractive to everyone who has the old box. *5 Leaking batteries is the thing that kills toys and electronics, but not the mechanical music box! *6 Whereas on eBay you mayfind 18 melodies to play on the old one, the new one can only play the interior 10 melodies. Creative people now even, at home, produce new music title discs on 3D-writersfor the 1971 models. Most of the 50-year-old boxes seem still to be around and functioning! It is amazing that a used, half antique, mechanical box can be bought for only 10 to 40$/€/£. I really wish that Fisher-Price start making this mechanical toy again! And before that, they could deliver a new set of tune discs, for old and new toys. Roland von Malmborg, Sweden, Mechanical music collector.
i wounder how can sell 3d printed disc with star wars music is it not ownd by the maker of the song or do you have the rights to to this as i sen people getting sued ower copyrights
@@fred27murphy they DON’T??!! 😱🤯 but that is what a record player does! Wow, the more I learn about the newer ones, the less I like them. I wonder how they can even be marketed as record players. I am going to go find an old ‘real’ 1971 one, then buy your discs for it. Can you make a Baby Shark disc?
Fred Murphy but this defeats the purpose of analog recoding. Sounds traveling through the air directly to vinyl, then digitized, then digitally printed, then turned back into sound waves vibrating your eardrum. If string theory is correct then everything is analog! It reminded me of a project years back where someone put a record in a scanner and a digital needle went across the grooves. I thought three same thing then! Really makes me want to get a good tub amplifier to hear a fully analog recoding! None the less you did an awesome job!
I had one of these as a child, I vividly remember the lettering and those birds/musical notes in the corners and I understood the ingenious principle of the operation back then. For some strange reason, I remember dunking it underwater in our bath to see if it still worked then. I can't remember if I broke it or not!
lol I remember doing those kind of "experiments"
I remember doing this with fisher price stuf, though I might have this
probably still would've worked honestly, its not necessarily an electronic
@@alexk9642 After a while, it would rust.
I did too! IIRC, the tines in the "headshell" rusted.
Homestar Runner brought me here. The B-est of B-sides!
Everybody! EVERYBODY!
@@zimtheailen1919 Hi, Missy! I'm a fan since 2004 who got to meet Mike and Matt at Gen Con last year for Trogdor the Board Game. Small world!
ObiWanBillKenobi :D
Wow! This is so awesome! I applaud you for being able to come up with this. The FP player was my brother's favorite toys wgen we were growing up.
I've been wanting to make one of these for many years of my musical projects. This is going to happen. Thanks for the video!
Very cool, bringing new life to old classics. Plus these are great for kids and making them sleep at night.
I remember that the school I went to in Kindergarten back in 2009-10 had one of those Fisher Price record players.
Sadly the newer turntables like I bought for my son have button under the arm to select pre-recorded tracks, there's only the "grooves" no nicks or notches to actually produce the sound.
Jacob Hernandez what the fuck
What the fuck is wrong with you?
jdifilippo what?
jdifilippo
What the hell are you on about?
@@Re_Kitty what did he say??
I had one of those when I was a youngster. My favorite record was the orange one... Edelweiss from The Sound of Music. I wish I had Stairway To Heaven. It might have been a game changer for me.
I am only 9 years late to the party :) Now if someone could make the actual player so we could use the discs, that would be awesome! I had one of these as a kid also and it would be so cool to make your own records for on it but they are not easy to find, at least the ones that are not the new type with digital tracks.
I want to hear it play Dragula by Rob Zombie!
Same here.
This is a lovely accomplishment! Good on y’a! 💚💚💚
Avril 14th would be perfect.
it would be amazing if you played the american horror story theme song on this..
Only 190 Subscribers (now 191!) but 87k views! Love this.... not sure how i even came across it, but well impressed!!!
I remember seeing this record player when I was little. I had a therapist that would come over to my house, and she would bring a big bag of toys for us to play with, and she would sometimes bring that record player. And I really want one for Christmas, and I don’t even give 2 craps that I’m 23 years old, and asking for this record player. But if only I knew how to make my own custom made disks for it, well, let’s just say my record collection would be large. If only I knew how to do this, and I really wish I had the money to buy the stuff to custom make the disks. I wonder how cheap or expensive it is to buy all the stuff to do this, because you seriously inspired me to want to make custom disks for my record player, if I do end up getting one.
I had one as a kid, too. You’re not too old; I’m almost twice your age, and I want one again!
You'll need to do some searching around. The new models don't have a real music box meconism, they just use digital files.
currently I am printing functional parts using a $150 Ender 3 S1. DO IT!!!
I used to pull up the 'tone arm' as far as it would go and pluck the metal strips under it that made up the music box.
Thank you for your inspiration. It's possible!
This machine tried to look like a record player, but is in fact anything automatic music instrument. The disc has the note events encoded mechanical and the "pickup" has the sound generation. Music box style with a metal comb.
Very similar to the old disk-type music boxes of the 19th and early 20th century.
Best hack ever! Led Zep was a good choice! Since I have the very same one (from 1974) I would consider a title by AC/DC...
Very ingenious! :) Well done, man
It's not a record player, it's a music box. The disc has small protrusions which strike metal prongs in the tonearm.
Yes, it’s basically like a player piano. The technology is hundreds of years old.
Request: Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells"
I wish I had an original music box record player in good working condition and I could 3d print some records. I know several tunes I'd choose.
Would love to have "moon river"!
Yes!
So this is a music box reading with indentations on the disc?/ like a Victorian music box?
Thank God for you!
It’s the some toy I had back in the 80s
Got this toy, it's so cool.
My West shant come to naught but.
I'd love to hear the Shire theme on this bad boy.
Very cool thought! I was small, that my favourite this classic... But is sadly, my mum took them sold back in USA. :(
I had one of these back in the 80s also but I always had a blue purple orange pink and green records never see thru or clear
They were very expensive
very interesting video
There must be a market opportunity for these still. Did you ever sell many of these? Ideal novelty gift.
Wow! This is so awesome! Can you make a 3D printed custom disc (plays Happy Wanderer) for a 1970s Fisher Price record player?
Very nice, lovely music Box!
I'm playing with an original in blue now
Inspiration. Awesome idea!
This is the non-electric old version, FISHER-PRICE item #995, MUSIC-BOX-RECORD-PLAYER
1971-1983 & 1984: Sesame Street..
9 DISCS; WITH 18 MELODIES CAN BE PLAYED on the old Music Box:
*A1 Sound of music. Do Re Mi,
*A2 Blue Danube = An der schönen blauen Donau
*B1 Music box dancer,
*B2 Barbara Allen,
*C1 Round the village,
*C2 Under the double eagle march = Unter dem Doppeladler
Fisher Price is one of very few companies that makes toys that endure, can be used by
many children and next generation(s). Their toys hardly break, although they
use plastic. This first-generation Music box was made 1971-1983. I regard it as
the crown jewel of the F-Price total production. Projections on the discs
induce a note on the tuned comb, just as in my antique music box from 1895,
with half meter/yard metal discs.
The same tune, out of five disc numbers, can have any, of around 10 disc colors.
All 5 discs were molded together in the same colour, then in next colour.
Afterwards they were plan-mingled, so that every box would have 5 different
colored discs. All boxes had the same 10 tunes, except a 1984 special edition,
where the fourth disc was swapped to Sesame Street. Remarkably, no supplementary tunes were ever
sold. But a carousel music box was made with six other melodies, three
discs, that use the same disc system. But the title is on the wrong side
of the disc, when played in the music box. I have got hold of all known 18
melodies. But to get the Sesame Street disc, I had to buy and pay the special
music box on eBay in USA, and ask them to just mail me the special disc, and
keep the rest.
In 2010 Fisher-Price instead launched an electric model. That was a most stupid
thing, but probably the Japan made music comb was expensive:
*1.The electric deprived the children of the proud sensation of THEIR UNIQUE
POWER: “It is only me, my winding, that can make the music”. Children don’t
like toys that play without them!
*2. Children are technically curious: They like to UNDERSTAND that the notches on the disc make the acoustic,
mechanical music.
The new discs all look the same, just stupidly give a different number signal to the 10 electronical tunes inside. Other electrical tune discs can not be made on a 3-D writer, or even by F-P, whereas home made discs have been made for the old model, and F-P could launch complementary music discs to those.
*3. No compatibility between old and new: If one box breaks or lacks a melody, one can not swap the discs between the models.
*4. If they had re-edited the old system, they could have supplied it with 10 new melodies, and made still more melodies! Attractive to everyone who has the old box.
*5 Leaking batteries is the thing that kills toys and electronics, but not the mechanical music box!
*6 Whereas on eBay you mayfind 18 melodies to play on the old one, the new one can only play the interior 10 melodies. Creative people now even, at home, produce new music title discs on 3D-writersfor the 1971 models. Most of the 50-year-old boxes seem still to be around and functioning! It is amazing that
a used, half antique, mechanical box can be bought for only 10 to 40$/€/£.
I really wish that Fisher-Price start making this mechanical toy again! And before that, they could deliver a new set of tune discs, for old and new toys.
Roland von Malmborg, Sweden, Mechanical music collector.
Thanks for posting. Great video!
pirating has just been took to another level
Bad grammar has just been took to another level
If you hooked this thing up to an electric motor and spun it up to say 1000 RPMs, would it be possible to encode a disc to play back speech?
I'm playing an original orange disk now. We have all 4 discs. II ran into this video by accident looking for a review on Craig walkman CD player. Lol
I wish there was one that played "Bustopher Jones (The Cat About Town)" from Cats.
Sweet thanks for posting!
i soo had one of these....
This makes wonder if you can 3D print an album?
You might think that that could work, but I don't think that most 3d printing devices have fine enough resolution for it.
@@acerbt yet
This really is the b-est of b-sides
I want to hear it play somebody I used to know by Gotye
Remember those as a little kid
i wounder how can sell 3d printed disc with star wars music is it not ownd by the maker of the song or do you have the rights to to this as i sen people getting sued ower copyrights
This is awesome!
Any MIDI files involved?
can you do The Left Banke's "Pretty Ballerina?"
I prefer the live version.
Could anyone recommend me on how to fix the arm on one of these? Or where I can let it get fixed?
Cool.. Nice idea..
If it’s possible if u could maybe do Jasckon 5 for the fans of michael Jasckon if so let me know
Do Unforgiven my Metalicca or one by U2
GREAT
Will this disc play on the newer models?
No. The newer ones are electronic. The disc doesn't even rotate.
@@fred27murphy they DON’T??!! 😱🤯 but that is what a record player does! Wow, the more I learn about the newer ones, the less I like them. I wonder how they can even be marketed as record players. I am going to go find an old ‘real’ 1971 one, then buy your discs for it. Can you make a Baby Shark disc?
Hi Fred. I'd like to contact you to make an original disc. How could I do that privately ?
its a classic music box
Are u selling the tou
This is the b-est of b-sides
Make one with Toto Africa on it.
I thought I was kool building an embossing lathe this is next level shit
Epic
So, what was the tune played?
Stairway to Heaven
make a Lisa Ono or meerio version
Hehehehe...
You've made a grave mistake leaving this up in 2020... Let's just say...
*Fisher Price is gonna have a bad time*
y tho
Bad Apple! :D
Make a Beatles album disc and make us leave for it
Encode some Skrillex onto one.
No one is allowed to play Tocatta Figue, Golden Axe Wilderness, or in a gadda da vida while trying out pipe organs...
Hey
Beli satu
Can you do own songs onto the disc?
That's exactly the point of this.
Fred Murphy but this defeats the purpose of analog recoding. Sounds traveling through the air directly to vinyl, then digitized, then digitally printed, then turned back into sound waves vibrating your eardrum. If string theory is correct then everything is analog! It reminded me of a project years back where someone put a record in a scanner and a digital needle went across the grooves. I thought three same thing then! Really makes me want to get a good tub amplifier to hear a fully analog recoding! None the less you did an awesome job!
play stairwy to heavem
Print that one game the cake is a lie
This is not a record player... it's an automatic instrument...
It was marketed as a record player
:D NYAN CAT
It so bad