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Vintage Record Player Question -- General Electric Trimline 500

Posted by jarnos08@yahoo.com on October 2, 2010 at 19:31:40:

Hey, ya'll.

I recently picked up an old GE Trimline 500 at a garage sale, got it super cheap, but am also super ignorant about record players. I am going to post a picture of the end of the arm (cartridge?, is that the term). There is no needle, and I would just like to be able to get this up and running. So, does anyone know of what type of needle, cartridge, whatever else I need need to get this working is? Please let me know. On the end of the arm, it says GE Tonal 1, on top of the cartridge, I believe. If, or when, you choose to reply, please make sure to talk about it in very basic terms, a lot of the terminology of record players is new/unknown to me. Hope to hear from you someone, and thanks so much in advance. JOHN.