The Vanitrola
The Vanitrola is one of many portable, acoustic record players that became popular as engineers found a way to fasten the disk to the player. With the player size often being smaller than the diameter of the disk, the balance of the machine was the only difficult engineering factor. The machine shown has a screw to fasten the record through the center hole and then the arm and reproducer fasten into the hollow lid to create a sound horn that is less than an inch deep. The arm, reproducer, record plates, and crank all store in the case for portability.
Hear the Vanitrola play "Potato Head Blues"
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