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    I am bidding on a 19th century Polyphon disc player in my local auction tonight, not sure of my limit but it is such a beautiful thing so will go 3 figures, it also comes with extra metal discs.

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    • Beautiful sounding. I'm getting feels.jagara
    • My neighbor is DJ and he asked if he could scratch on this?utopian
    • Definitely a work of art, what will be your highest bid?utopian
    • 200 really, as there are 60's albums included in the lot - no scratching on these!Gardener
    • did you get it?utopian
    • Let me get this straight, this is a music box cylinder on a disc, right?palimpsest
    • Looking more into it I was wrong. There's a kind of API which is the star wheel that translates the data from the disc to the actual sound producing mechanism.palimpsest
    • Vinyl is the closest reproduction to analog music we have. Gardner: "hold my Polyphon"_niko
    • it finished at £170 so I just missed out on it, shameGardener
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