Who doesn't want a gigantic banana to play their vinyls? Plays 33 and 45 rpm records in any position, and comes with a carrying strap as shown in the inset.
Guessing here, but looks to me like the white thing holds the record in place. Otherwise, the record might fall off in some positions.
Photo of a surviving example,
This is as portable as vinyl record players have ever gotten. You can buy this today for $200
Here's a TechMoan video about it: https://youtu.be/b48XD9P8klM
Oh wow. One apparently sold on ebay for $1500!
Bet it took like 8 D batteries when not plugged in.
Let's put on some Velvet Underground!
It's a banana, what could it cost, $10?
"portable"
Remember the first "portable" computers? We called them "luggable".
The more I think about this the more I can see the a-peel of it.
Banana for scale
Bananaphone!
It's like something dreamt up by a record company:
"How can we sell more records?"
Shitty engineer: "Let's make a portable record player that even works upside down. This will require a massive spring on the tone arm, which will wear down both needles and records at a... record pace!"
Guessing here, but looks to me like the white thing holds the
recordbanana in place. Otherwise, therecordbanana might fall off in somepositionsbanana.
Do they call it Mellow Yellow?
I really want this thing honestly, looks cool as fuck
Is the model in the ad wearing a monkey mask?
It's smaller þan shown in þe ad: 25x8x11". It looks 4' long in þe ad, unless þe girl is, like, 7y/o.
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