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Most 78 records were't made of hard wax but shellac
the next bit is voice to text so little punctuation and some of it probably a bit strange.
Back in some distant past my parents with theoretically very keen on classical music. My mother played the cello and my father played the gramophone. When I reach the age of about 11 I realise that at some point they had lost interest in music. It wasn't long after this that their marriage broke up and I think diverted away from this relationship which was based in the 1940s some sort of academic socialist Church of England background which drifted on into my childhood and sort of faded out. However a key factor here was my introduction to music was getting hold of their equipment which they no longer wanted and I think intended to throw away. They had been members of the thorn EMI Thorn club. Members of this had gramophone needles made out of thorn not thorns but thorn wood these were sharpened on a fairly unusual device which I have somewhere but I can't remember where. The gramophone I inherited was a huge device large thermionic valves inside when you lifted the lid there was a78 wax record deck that would take about 12 records and auto change them one at a time. Whole symphonies were available arranged in such a way that you could put a stack of say10 records onto the auto changer and let it play the first half of the symphony and then turn the whole lot over and it would automatically change the records and play the second half at the symphony. When my family home was split up I was boarding school so I'm afraid the majority of the records and the great HMV auto changer were consigned to jumble sales or the tip but by this time I was developing an interest in 1960s music at boarding school. It slowly became apparent to me that's the music of the Beatles the rolling stones the doors velvet underground the cream well the list is endless was as significant as the classical music that I had mopped up as a younger child.
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