Ah, great memories! My Grandpa had a working wire recorder my brother and I inherited. But, God help me, my brother ended up with it, he is deceased, and I don’t know what became of it.
Hopefully he donated it to a museum or something...
Then there was the 1st time I heard Uriah Heep “Salisbury” on the new headphones (my first good ones - Koss Pro4-AA, IIRC) I’d bought a few hours prior. Wow!
Yep, Uriah Heep, YES, and few others came out right when the recording technology was changing by leaps and bounds! Blow your head away stuff!
I actually have an old RCA crank player and a whole collection of Edison and RCA Victor platters. Belonged to my Grandmother.
Pretty nostalgic to fire it up once in awhile and actually appreciate all those scratches... ;)
I hope one of my kids will take it and appreciate it!