1959 Seeburg “1000″ Background music system juke box
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The seeburg 1000 background music system was introduced in 1959 in which to provide background music or “elevator music” as we know it today for shoppers in stores
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What a beautiful machine. I love the works so it can play both sides. I went and looked at my Imperial Phonograph and my dads Edison gramaphone that I have, but I don’t know how to tell what year they were made.
When the others say, ” why don’t you just stick all of this on an Mp3 player”, they apparently don’t care about the engineering of the machines that we had then.
It can be found on INDUSTRIAL record N4 side B (N4B), dated 12-26-64.
…from the 1940 Walt Disney animated film “Pinocchio”. Music by Leigh Harline. Lyrics by Ned Washington.
Song is “I’ve Got No Strings”
that machine is amazing. the company I work for used them long before I started there, so I’d never seen one. I had only heard stories of the guys servicing them in the field. they reported the machines would be loaded with black dust from the records after hours and hours of operation, but they contunued to run until the stylus wore down to nothing or the records wore out. turning at 16 RPM the records lasted a fairly long time. thanks for showing a great piece of history. KF / Muzak Chgo
Each record is approx 30-40 minutes per side. I don’t have one of these machines but I have some of the records. Check my video above. If you look carefully the top of the the spindle on the machine is opened. I think 6 or 7 records were shipped in sets for the user to play during a certain period then the records were to be sent back to Seeburg. Seeburg charged 24 cents per record that was not sent back to them at the end of the play date cycle.
I found this video doing a search in your video posts. This is very interesting on how this machine plays the records. How many records can be put into the machine at once and what is the time length per record? I was wondering too if you can show another video describing the controls and functions of the machine? Is it difficult to change records on this machine; it looks like the spindle is completely attached to the top and bottom.
Enjoyed the video! BTW, Seeburg did offer a large unit containing THREE of these little phonos for the ultimate in non-repeat Fridays.
Can you tell me what Seeburg record and category (Insustrial/Mood, etc) this song is on?
That is SOOO cool! I WANT ONE! Love the fact that it’s self-contained, with a built-in speaker. I could see this playing a set of Seeburg 16 2/3 Christmas records in my dining room during Xmas dinner
I think if you a system that can open and close several points around the record referencing the central point, you should get in there. You do need to be fairly dead on. The “whining” sound or “wow” is more affected by left right motion than up and down. I don’t like Muzak either. I like MY program not preprogramed. I would use an MP3 jukebox first. It is worth mentioning that you CAN hook up a classic style jukebox wallbox to a CD/MP3 Player (or your computer) with a special adapter
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you can come close enough though, like i said, one accurate template and you can do a bunch at a time, the bottom line for me would be at least I wouldn’t have to listen to that muzak…yuk!
That is very tough to do. If the hole is slightly off, the record will “whine”. Not all 45′s are cut precisely at 7″ either…so that adds to the challenge. It is worth mentioning that they DID make tabletop jukeboxes and Ristaucrat made a few that took 45′s AND you could make selections from. The trouble is that due to the small size you only room for 10 or 12 records. Seeburg DID make an album unit that played about 50 33rpm records, vertically, if you want long play. An interesting mech.
what fun would uploading them to a computer be?
naa I can get one of these to play 45′s simply by changing out the motor and using a 2″ heated socket to dink the 45′s, would only need to make on accurate template.. then BAM! cool table top 45 rpm juke! creativity makes the man. don’t you think?
VERY cool! I heard of these units before and seen them on some jukebox supplier’s websites, but this is the first time I seen one in operation.
That is near impossible. Even if you could change the motor speed, these units used a 2″ hole, a 45 has a 1.5″ hole. So that would mean you would have to precisely alter the 45s you want to use to a 2″ hole. That would be very difficult to do. OptA: You would be better off loading up your 45 records as MP3′s on a computer and let the computer play music all day. OptB: There are other similar systems to this that used a standard spindle. OptC: Buy a small 45rpm jukebox. E.G. Seeburg Phonojet
Oh wow, I’ve always wanted to see one of these operate. That’s incredible. Thanks!!
Great video! Amazing piece of mechanical-analog machinery.
I actually like it. Its from a different era and one I wasn’t part of. All I can do is preserve and appriciate these things from the past.
What is your opinion of that old Mantovani style elevator music?
There were several Wurlitzer models like the model 1250 made in 1950 which work just like this…the record is supported in the center of the hub and the tonearm has one needle on top and one on the bottom. Seeburg coin operated 45rpm jukeboxes play the record in the vertical plane and have a two-needled tone arm.
Most other types of jukeboxes flipped the record over in some way to play the other side, or in the case of the really old machines (1940′s and earlier) only played the top side.
Don’t know about you, but the minute I hear this play, I’m transported back to when I was a kid and walking through a department store. Great memories….
I would love to mod this to play standard speed 45′s
Superb machine – as I love auto turntables, this is right up my ally! Great vid! (would love to get my hands on one…)
Thats exactly what it is. I didnt know the name of this tune until another member pointed it out earlier.