Who needs an iPod Anyway?

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What did we listen to before iPods, before discmans, before walkmans, before ghetto blasters?

Stepped back in time last weekend when my Dad cleaned up my grandfathers old portable gramophone. It had been sitting in my grandfathers shed for at least the last 28 years and then who knows where it had travelled before that. After all those years all it took was a good clean up and, without the aid of batteries or electricity was pumping out the olde time tunes again.

Couldn't believe how simple it was, it consists of a needle attached to a tube that feeds into an empty box that amplifies the sound - and what a sound - never imagined it would be so loud! And there is no volume control, although there is a brake and a speed control. And you need to wind it up after every track. Not sure just how old this player is, any experts out there?