Vintage, Vinyl Record, Very special!

V is for Vinyl Record...Do the young people even know that Vinyl records were the precursor to cd's and ipods and downloaded music? This very special Vinyl record album and a few other choice ones with unusual presentations have stayed with me since my teen and early twenties. Sorting through things that have been boxed up in a closet for years, has been stirring up thoughts and memories from a time gone by but never forgotten. Between this and the magnificent exhibit at the museum on Tuesday, I am in nostalgia heaven. Packing and downsizing again is taking me on a journey into the past while I continue to move out of the past and ino a new beginning. It comforts me to have these few items to take along as I move forward again.

Vinyl record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record (in American English), vinyl record (manufactured from polyvinyl chloride, the material which eventually replaced Shellac from around 1950), or colloquially, "a record", is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. Phonograph records are generally described by their diameter in inches (12-inch, 10-inch, 7-inch, etc.), the rotational speed at which they are played ("331⁄3 rpm", "78", "45", etc.), their time capacity ("long playing" or "single"), their reproductive accuracy, or "fidelity" ("high fidelity", "orthophonic", "full-range", etc.), and the number of channels of audio provided ("mono", "stereo", "quadraphonic", etc.).

Today is a lovely day, warm and breezey without the humidity we had yesterday. Now to sort through more stuff...