Musical jukebox "Seeburg STD 4"
Musical jukebox "Seeburg STD 4"
Chicago, Illinois
1977
Seeburg Corporation
Wood, metal, glass, paper, plastic; factory production
102x70x136 cm, 180 kg
On one label on the back: "1687560", on another: "18043", on the selection panel: "SELECTIO PLAYING", trademark "SEEBURG", in the window: "PIECES de MONNAIE: 5 Francs ou 10 Francs, DISQUES SIMPLES: 5 Francs….1 SELECTION 10 Francs 2x5 Francs… 3 SELECTION". On the cards are the titles of the works and the names of the performers.
An automatic player in a case made up of two rectangular volumes: a lower one that juts out forward, and a narrow upper one. On the front sides, there are three arched windows made of plastic - three straight arches on the upper part, and three inverted ones on the lower part. The facades and windows are framed with chrome frames. Around the perimeter and vertically in the center of the larger middle windows, there are rows of bulbs for dynamic illumination. Inside the windows, there are nested colorful arches illuminated in blue-red tones. The remaining space on the front sides is covered with a fine metal mesh in blue color. At the bottom left, there is a three-dimensional chrome trademark "Seeburg." In the lower part of the upper central window, there is a melody selection panel with buttons and indicator windows. To the right, there is a coin slot and a return button. Under the horizontal transparent panel in a chrome frame, there is a numbered list of 160 melodies on separate cards in black plastic frames. The back, top, and side panels of the case are made of painted black sheet metal. On the right side panel, there is a coin box lid with a lock and a coin return slot. On the back side, there is a power cable and a power switch. The stereo acoustic system consists of two bass loudspeakers at the bottom and two high-frequency horns in the upper corners. Eighty 45 RPM records with a diameter of 175 mm are inserted into the cells of the horizontal magazine. To listen to melodies, it is necessary to drop one or two coins into the coin slot and enter the codes of the selected melodies on the keyboard. After that, the carriage with the player mechanism begins to move along the row of records in the magazine until the selected one is found. The record is loaded into the player with a vertical disc and tonearm, and playback begins. After playback is complete, the record returns to its cell, and the carriage returns to the end position. The music medium: gramophone records at 45 RPM with a diameter of 175 mm.
Инв.967/ММП