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Given the spate of record player/vinyl/turntable ideas...
Möbius Record/turntable.
A ridiculously complex mechanical arrangement spins the
vinyl. The groove passes the stylus to release beautiful
music.
The “record” has just one side. No need to turn it over,
and it plays continuously.
Until you get bored of it.
Mobius strip music box
https://youtu.be/3iMI_uOM_fY
Sameish [EnochLives, Oct 05 2019]
YouTube: Techmoan: Tefifon player and Tefi cartridges
https://www.youtube...watch?v=nBNTAmLRmUg
Mentioned in my anno. Relevant view of cartridge internals is at 3:20. [notexactly, Oct 07 2019]
YouTube: Techmoan: 8-track recorder and cartridges
https://www.youtube...watch?v=XLZS0Sj9-1U
Mentioned in my anno. Relevant view of cartridge internals is right at the beginning. [notexactly, Oct 07 2019]
[link]
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//ridiculously complex// it needn't be. All that is required is
a pair of rollers between which the record passes, at least one
of the rollers being actively driven. |
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Hmm, yes, that’s actually feasible. |
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Does the groove start at the inside or the outside? |
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Definitely, one or the other. |
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Actually this whole thing wouldn't work very well at all. Either you'd have grooves crossing at some point, or you'd only have a single groove covering [both the one sides] - which would make your play duration rather limited. Or rather, your loop duration. Could get very annoying. |
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//Given the spate of record player/vinyl/turntable ideas...//
I'm waiting for "Schrödinger's record player"... |
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//Schrödinger's record player// |
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Is it too early for snowglobe record players? |
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Wasn't there a ski jump return idea kicking around once? |
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Hasn''t this already been baked? I want to say '8 track'. |
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Ahh, memory via the build up of crossings as encoding, with added info as how track is cut. |
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// Hasn''t this already been baked? I want to say '8 track'. // |
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Closest thing in playback mechanism (needle reading a grooved tape)
would be the Tefifon and Tefi cartridges [link], but, as you can see at 3:20
in the video, that's not a Möbius strip. (It is coiled, meaning that would be
a twisted loop if you pulled it out straight, but the number of half-twists
would be even.) The same goes for 8-track [link], as you can see right the
beginning of that video. |
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However, that's not to say that those two systems couldn't be adapted to
use Möbius strip-shaped tapes inside slightly modified cartridges. You
might get crosstalk between the 'two' sides of the one-sided magnetic
tape in 8-track, though. |
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But this idea seems to me to be intended as a non-coiled Möbius strip (i.e.
a total of one half-twist), with a strip width greater than 1/10 its
diameter when laid out as a circle, and not contained in a cartridge. |
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Obviously, the concept extends to the Klein-surface
player, which picks up vibrations imbued into the
surface of a pan-dimensional hyper-form. As the
strange object is endlessly rotated through 4
dimensions, it retrieves pop sounds for make great
benefit of all the youth. |
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