Re: Vintage?
My son David was Class of 1999 at college. He became program director of the college radio station, WHRB in Cambridge MA. One of his jobs was to train other students who wanted to join the station. As a primarily classical music station, WHRB had a large collection of vinyl LP's, which they still used for broadcast purposes. Dave told me that after his soph year, 1996-7, many of the first-years he trained had to be shown how to get music from an LP record –– what a turntable and tone arm were, how to find and select a track. They knew nothing before the advent of the compact disk.
These would have been kids born somewhere around 1978 or 1979. We should, I guess, be grateful that "mandolin technology," insofar as getting music out of the instrument, hasn't changed all that much since the Renaissance. Methods of amplifying and recording that music have changed, of course, but you still have strings and a pick...
Allen Hopkins
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