maybe not what you're looking for, but Christian Bloch had a metal spindle that elevated a record and allowed him to play it upside down, the cartridge had to be flipped in the tonearm and the counterbalance weight had to be adjusted so that the cart would lift up and press upside down against the vinyl.
-----Original Message----- From: Denise Dalphond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 3:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (313) Research question about vinyl manipulation Hi all, Has anyone ever done or heard of anyone doing the following IN DETROIT: Physically manipulating a piece of vinyl by cutting it down the middle exactly and then gluing it to another half of vinyl so that the grooves match up and it can actually play? Or any other kind of dramatic vinyl manipulation? I'm thinking of things beyond concentric grooves, groove reversal (starting a record from the inside to play outward), and looped grooves. Feel free to message me directly if you'd rather. Thanks! -- Denise Dalphond Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology Indiana University http://denisedjsdetroit.blogspot.com/
