New £5 Note Can Play Vinyl Records

I heard that it was possible to listen to vinyl records using one of the new plastic British £5 notes, but does it work? Time to test it out!

[@driewiel]

Note: Counterfeit money will only play illegally downloaded vinyl.

[@ns3510]

Where I download vinyl? Is this vmp3?

[@realdragon]

You wouldn't download vinyl

[@sailaab]

that is logical

[@samsungtelevision695]

@@googaagoogaa12345678 bruh you got wooshed yourself. Back in the napster days a video went around saying “you wouldn’t download a car” comparing downloading music to stealing a car

[@reddgmd]

@@samsungtelevision695 They had it on every DVD. You couldn’t skip it haha

[@alexanderbondestam]

it sounds like that annoying guy on the bus who always listens to music on the highest volume...

[@danielrichardson4691]

Thats shit headphones mate. Knock them and tell them buy some decent headphones

[@zackarycolley9201]

ME!!!!

[@rachetCD]

Alexander Bondestam no that's shitty rap music

[@MrJorgito89]

Im sorry...I'll lower the volume a bit from now on...

[@jamescollins6085]

Daniel Richardson A.K.A the ones that come with an iPhone. They leak far too much sound!

[@WantedJosh-kd1ln]

Bro missed his chance to pull the most clever Rick Roll ever

[@the3nder1]

This is exactly what I was expecting. 😂

[@1994CivicGLi]

to be fair, this was when the rickroll was dead

[@kawaibakaneko]

​@@1994CivicGLiRickroll never died! At least I never stopped rickrolling people, I love the song

[@blazingstar9638]

😂😂

[@NightShade8x]

It was posted 7 years ago

[@Real_RUBB3R]

I just think it's crazy how you can get music out of bumps and grooves in a plastic disc to begin with, let alone with a plastic bill

[@angrytigermpc]

That's what I was thinking. It really highlights how audio recordings (and for that matter, sound in general) is really just a bunch of vibrations.

[@mezzovii]

it always felt like magic to me. and it still does.

[@brandonwithnell612]

yeah since sound is transmitted through vibration it becomes surprizingly simple to record and repicate the conditions for that vibration on a physical medium, makes you wonder if other concepts like that could be stored and replicated the same way as long as we find out the connecting factor to do it

[@pdtech4524]

@@brandonwithnell612 re concepts for storing and replicating media, how about storing audio on magnetic tape, wouldn't that be great, we could convert audio 'vibrations' from a mic to electrical signals, then somehow write those electrical signals via an electro magnet to convert those same electrical audio signals to magnetic data on a long roll of magnetic sensitive tape. Then all we have to work out is how to convert those same magnetic signals back to electrical signals, then use that to drive a speaker to replicate the original recorded sound? It might just work, I could patent it and become rich, richer than Elon or Branson. In fact I'm sure we could do the same with a TV signal and copy the audio visual data on to similar magnetic tape, it might have to be wider and longer to accomodate all the extra data? That would be incredible?

[@robmule4647]

@@pdtech4524 it'll never catch on 😂😉

[@Cyranek]

awesome now I don't have to drop insane amounts on diamond needles

[@Yikes_s]

Legend.

[@barrybenson4158]

Cyranek Fucking plebian.

[@ipadaily5622]

Cyranek Just use obsidian instead

[@nathanricketts2415]

Oh c'mon, wimp. After mining away I've already got 2 :/

[@mayorofohio]

DavisCedrezGaming

[@burkezillar]

The Queen has never been so useful.

[@yuli1970]

savage

[@PILOSOPAUL]

This comment is priceless.... like the Queen

[@_prism]

XD

[@carlojaimelizzeni2171]

You make me laugh so fucking much

[@cardoggs7861]

Should’ve been the Queen playing Queen’s “God Save the Queen”

[@filip9587]

Can't believe it's been 6 years since the plastic fiver came out. And now Lizzie's gone. Man times move fast.

[@killthepandas.]

are the notes still made of plastic?

[@filip9587]

@@killthepandas. They haven't changed. But I heard they'll be changed for Charles' face by the end of this year.

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

Glad the US hasn’t switched to plastic. The phrase “I’ll use plastic” wouldn’t be the same

[@Orincaby]

@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 plastic or plastic? Uh do I have a choice? Physical plastic or digital plastic?

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

@@Orincaby at this point currency is so worthless and fake we should just pick up rocks off the ground and use those lol

[@shawbag11]

So now you can use the queen to play queen. splendid :D

[@LRM12o8]

🎼"She's a fiver Queeeeeeen! Goodbye to misery, Gonna buy myself a drink, Guaranteed a good ol' time!"🎶

[@YourRulerKingDedede]

That is NOT Killer Queen

[@petermmm42]

​@@LRM12o8anytime? Are you listening to the same killer queen? Are you in a different universe?

[@ZicajosProductions]

1:07 *Bank note intensifies*

[@jesse-vp6bt]

Joe N. *DUUU* *DUUU* *DDDUDUDDUUDDUDUDUDU*

[@lewislfc0075]

Joe N. *DUUU DUUUU DDDUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDDDDDUUUUUUUUDDDDDDUUUUU*

[@nermoxd6295]

TRIGGERD

[@crazyyymusic1341]

Holy shit dude that comment made my meme day😂😂😂

[@shizukagozen777]

Joe N. LOOOOL 😂

[@itsGeorgeAgain]

You can do that with pretty much anything that can fit in the groove and has enough surface to vibrate. On old players you can hear the same thing coming from the needle bit if you turn off the speakers. (At least i do on an old AKAI player)

[@tassumasi]

itsGeorgeAgain well duh

[@DamienSLR]

I think you can hear something from all record player, I hear the music from the needle of my 2015 rega. Maybe not as much as yours though, can’t say.

[@tassumasi]

DamienSLR well that's how the player works. The needle resonates acoustically on the record and then the player amplifies the sound

[@CalamityHillMusic]

You must be fun at parties.

[@IncubusBroth]

Doesn't mean you should

[@jedisalsohere]

Vinyl record technology is just wizardry to me as someone who's grown up mostly in the digital age.

[@drunkonsuccess779]

Wonder how someone figured this out. "Fookin watch this now butt, fookin mad this is" *plays vinyl with bank note*

[@beeble2003]

It's clever but not Einstein-clever. The groove of the record has the same oscillations pressed into it as the sound wave it's reproducing, and the earliest players just put that vibration through a big ol' horn so you could hear it. Here, the flat surface of the bank note is acting as the physical amplifier -- the tiny vibrations of the corner of the fiver against the groove make the whole bank note vibrate. That's moving enough air to be loud enough to hear.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

There was a fad in the late 70s or early 80s for playing records with various unorthodox and vinyl wrecking objects.

[@LRM12o8]

By having the slightest understanding of the physics behind record players, lol. In the past there have been greeting cards that can play an included small vinyl by dragging the edge of the cardboard through the groove, it's nothing new.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@LRM12o8 in the 70s Corgi produced a Basil Brush car and enclosed a plastic strip that when you ran you thumbnail over it played Basil's laugh.

[@foxorian]

(For those interested) It works better at an angle because a vinyl groove is a V shape. (L/R wall is for L/R channel.) By pressing at an angle, the corner is more clearly 'reading' one of the two channels. This actually works with a piece of regular printer paper too, or a wrapper from (say) a bag of skittles, even a sharp toothpick. The corner of the paper sleeve for disposable chopsticks works even better since the pouch shape amplifies the sound surprisingly loudly. Paper doesn't last long against the friction, though. And again, don't use on vinyl you care about lol

[@madeinmexico4483]

Matt Laskowski Isn't that common sense? Does the needle sit at angle? Im being serious I know u know about Vinyl.

[@polkaciik]

Made in U.S.A needle doest need to be in angle, because of it shape, there are two most common type cone like U, and "triangle" which is in V shape. Cone shape U needles are more friendly to record. Triangle shape V needles are better sounding, but they have tendency to damage respectively wear grooves much quicker than cone U type needle.

[@LukasFink1]

But isn't up/down without an angle the mean of both the left and right channel.

[@Vitorruy1]

Matt Laskowski you sound like you had fun with that

[@TheUKNutter]

Does it break the record?

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

The future-past of scratching vinyls :-)

[@timove420]

800 likes

[@banjostring9610]

no S. just Vinyl.

[@mandarin1257]

Fun fact: play records with your fingernail.

[@bikutavictor7920]

epSos.de 哈哈哈，funny

[@maggienoodles3333]

no way has it been 6 years since the new £5 note- omg it was as if it came out yesterday....time flies!!!

[@darkshadowsx5949]

that plastic bank note would be much less damaging to a record than the metal needle would be. completely safe to use on valuable records.

[@ThunderBassistJay]

Those new 5 pound notes apparently have been designed to play Sex Pistols' God save the queen. :-)

[@AidenHulick]

ThunderBassist Jay Thats pretty funny

[@tobiaseriksen9791]

So fucking true

[@frankcarver8912]

No fucking way that's awesome

[@zacharywilson9596]

ThunderBassist Jay, there’s no future, no future, no future for you!

[@lappet9804]

ThunderBassist Jay up the ra

[@trixstermillion2190]

Many decades ago when I was a DJ I used to put the first knuckle of my index finger in my ear and my fingernail in the groove of a spinning vinyl record. This worked well, but was useful for exactly nothing but listening to music on a record when there was no power.

[@iiiiilllllllll]

This is really cool dude I'm m gonna try it

[@kennethwallace4338]

Lio and stitch 😄

[@StackBundle]

How would it be spinning if there was no power

[@cattenchaostherandomperson]

@@StackBundle a crank

[@StackBundle]

@@cattenchaostherandompersonOh yeah that makes sense.

[@PedroMiguel-if3ll]

It took 7 years for KZbin to recommend this video. I am glad it did, that's hilarious!

[@elitebelt]

It's absolutely insane to me that you can use something like a bank note to play a song a band recorded any number of years ago, somehow imprinted the exact grooves needed to get the exact vibrations to recreate the sound by rotating the vinyl at a certain speed and pressing said bank note (or other such tool) into the grooves. That will never not be incredible to me.

[@Arcadiality]

I like the new notes. When they announced them it was music to my ears 😆

[@QuadTubeChannel]

Hahahah They said alright calm down, don't make a song and dance about it but boy where they wrong xD

[@gearoidmcdonagh8492]

Nah man terrible idea.They will have to re do them I reckon.If you work in a bar or any other environment where you are likely to be working with your hands the notes will stick together with alcohol or any other substance.Not only that but they stick together on their own.They are harder to count up too.

[@johnnys-left-earring]

Hate them, just more plastic in the world being produced for no reason

[@lakfit.b8347]

@@gearoidmcdonagh8492 ​do the plastic notes where your From stick together?? Wtf

[@brutal2417]

They're music notes😄

[@Harp00nX]

but who the hell thought it up? i mean who was bored enough to sit and think to themselves "hmm I wonder if the new fiver can play music from old records.... i should try that!" ......

[@itssimontime8634]

Barry's World weed tends to bring out that kind of thought... I'd venture to say.... stone coïncidence

[@leesimeone]

Barry, best comment I've ever read! Lol ;)

[@QuadiePoo]

Barry's World probably because it was plastic

[@CaptainResident]

Barry's World not all records are old, ya know.

[@nasskhan4543]

Barry's World hey who was bored enough to look at this you tube video? You mate!

[@PrinceWesterburg]

The grooves are in a V with the L&R channels at 90 degrees to one another so the angle is important, not the pressure. You will be able to play 78s this way as they have a straight up and down mono groove and destroy 33rpm styluses

[@MissElaineDumont]

Now the slogan: "Lizzie's in a Box" gets a whole new meaning.

[@mleleuterio]

i love how he didn't care about the money being ripped and proceeds to warn that the record may be damaged

[@MuchWhittering]

You'd have to try very fucking hard to rip these plastic notes.

[@OmniversalInsect]

Good chance the records are more expensive

[@drnanard9605]

It's a 5£ banknote, of course he's more wary about the 40£ vinyl

[@DueySR]

That's because damaging money doesn't decrease its value.

[@tucatheman]

it's just 5£ anyway

[@AaronSilber]

The latest in counterfeit detection technology

[@JohnSmith-yw4bh]

Aaron Silber haha. Yeah. "Looks real...but Does it play records?"

[@cypherpunk12]

This is 7 years ago, I wonder if the new King Charles note, with the Micky Mouse ears will be better?

[@R.Douglas]

Should be louder..

[@DavidWsTrainVideos]

It’s 3:37 AM here in Canada and KZbin seems to think that I want to watch a video of someone playing a record with a UK banknote lol. Well, here I am.

[@ImWoolly]

West coast buddies!

[@davidsiler5505]

How about rolling it into a cone?

[@S500-]

David Siler genius thinking 💖

[@JasonGodwin69]

David Siler TEST IT

[@davidsiler5505]

Jason Godwin I'm an American. I have know access to a Pound Note.

[@64bitmad42]

David Siler It works with a dollar bill as well.

[@bruhtown241]

David Siler wouldn't that be bad cause its burning plastic? Or is it just meh

[@getter7seven]

That's just nuts on so many levels.

[@mediocreman6323]

An impressive demonstration of the ingenuity of this technology.

[@myrandomlife8881]

Aw man, i imaging you out it on the disc and it spinning around while make the iconic money sound

[@HoodNewsMedia]

It's crazy how vibrations make up so many thing's in reality.

[@alexkaiser2344]

literally everything is vibration, its the entire basis of existence

[@LightOffArchives]

@@alexkaiser2344 String theory

[@cattysplat]

Such a vibe.

[@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat]

@@alexkaiser2344 molecules exist without vibration, but I get your point. Vibration , molecules and in our case carbon makes up our world

[@WeedCop]

@@alexkaiser2344 thats what she said

[@predcon1]

"Help! The GBP has lost value!" "Well, how do we fix it?" "Let's make it play music! That'll drive the value up!"

[@ijemand5672]

Good boy points

[@breakingnewsonsocialmediat8809]

For those interested, I used to make growing up in Jamaica, I used to get a needle a piece of paper wrapped it like a ice cream cone at the pointed end put the needle through it, and slightly put it on the vinyl and you get music as kids we jus made something the vinyl can Spin on and used the cone to Play music

[@rubenlarochelle1881]

I thought the new banknote had small vynil bumps that could be played, like for example the anthem, which would have already been very cool, but turns out the banknote is what can make other vynils make sounds, which is somehow even cooler.

[@GTarditi]

Was expecting an earrape god save the queen meme, 0/10 very disappointed

[@GTarditi]

Luna McLean if I had a penny for every time I've been told that I'd be able to buy a record player, a record and still have a fiver left over to play it with.

[@Joseph-no6sn]

God save the meme

[@chasiu75]

This doesn't resonate with me.

[@travisreid9530]

chasiu75 you just need to press harder, and bend a little.

[@chasiu75]

is gilbert LOL

[@mortallious1234]

Boom Boom.

[@tdhsatypus2754]

Oh no

[@ElPayasoMalo]

Come on! These are good vibrations! Though this barely scratches the surface. We spin around the issue to get to the deep cuts.

[@V3ryan]

I was half expecting to be Rick Rolled watching this

[@dananthony6258]

Vinyl records have to be top 5 craziest inventions ever made. 100 years ago I bet nobody would imagine a piece of plastic could reproduce a sounds in such detail and be played back.

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

Wow, I heard people saying you could do this back when these notes were new, but I never tried it for myself or saw any proof that it was possible, so this is awesome!

[@SirBlot]

It works like that when I watch?

[@rendexrz2105]

I think this could become a meme.

[@Ryan-co9xc]

Something like Soviet earrape

[@RickyVWorld]

Was thinking of the exact same thing

[@crqf2010ruler]

I found the birth of another meme Live fast, live furious, memes die quickly nowadays.

[@TimlegoStudios]

KAGa

[@Alex632]

It was a meme.... Years ago... when Australia introduced the bank note....

[@oddities-whatnot]

After deleting and reinstalling KZbin I’m so happy to be recommended videos from at least 15 years ago.

[@jamescollins6085]

Probably does less damage than a Crosley.

[@varikvalefor]

Made me laugh. You should watch VWestlife's video on that, though.

[@jamescollins6085]

Admittedly, I have. Yesterday in fact, I'm just saying it for the sake of saying it. I suppose it's easier to get on the bandwagon of hating on Crosley even though they have made some decent products. Namely, the Collegiate which has all of the features of a high end record player at a very affordable price.

[@varikvalefor]

James Collins I still don't think that it's a good idea to spread misinformation.

[@being01]

Varik Valefor well aren't you two having a respectful discord about a miscellaneous topic

[@ghoulannabanana]

Shvartser this isn't reddit, who gives a shit

[@thekidneedsjuice3785]

Sounds Better than a Crosley😳

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

And probably wears out the vinyl groove a lot less as well ;)

[@itslonghurst6454]

I’ve got a crosley, great little things. Had it for 2 years, play is everyday. No vinyls destroyed

[@victoria-mf1hg]

It’s Longhurst As far as you know? I used to own a shitty $50 record player and I used to think it was fine until I bought a new one. Shit sounded like heaven's angels singing to me.

[@victoria-mf1hg]

It’s Longhurst And you're the typical ignorant tumblrette who won't listen to anyone's advice. Have fun listening to those caved out records of yours, babe. You really need to relax, you're getting genuinely heated over my lighthearted comment. 💀

[@itslonghurst6454]

victoria i don’t use tumblr. I don’t get why you’re getting all heated over me saying that I’ve had mine for 2 years and no “caved in” records and that it sounds great. I travel a lot and it’s a great little portable vinyl player. Granted it’s not incredible, but it’s great.

[@CalvinWiersum]

Now that is one musical note!

[@realcartoongirl]

lmao the distortion makes it better💀

[@SSteelification]

well bloody hell. it works. whodathunkit.

[@ziggygraham6436]

Medathunkit

[@vollsticks]

Right, 'cause "whodathunkit" is the most "British" expression ever and not an Americanism or anything.

[@itsmetheherpes1750]

well, yes, but i can no longer wipe my ass with it. rich people use a hundred £ bills. i am poor i use 5 £ bills, but now i have to move up..

[@naverilllang]

Clearly someone did

[@ColinGilbert24]

The science behind it is rather simple to comprehend and quite clever actually. As the record spins and the corner of the note is in the grooves of the record the note vibrates and we hear these vibrations as they travel through the note. Years ago I did something similar using a thin piece of card and paper made into a cone. the thin card was the stylus and I used the paper cone like a speaker.

[@WesternWaster-2299]

That’s not science

[@ColinGilbert24]

@@WesternWaster-2299 Well then what do YOU call it? I was experimenting with a theory. If that's not a field of science then what is it?

[@wisteriapetals]

@@ColinGilbert24 Do not waste your time arguing with someone like that. Trust me.

[@rambo-cambo3581]

Most can tell this at a glance, as they already understand the basic principals behind vynil

[@WesternWaster-2299]

@@wisteriapetals no he definitely should

[@boredyoutubeuser]

This is just as cool as making a gramaphone out of 3d puzzle pieces!

[@RadiantSkiddMarx]

Reminds me of an old pair of headphones I had that could somehow pick up radio signals. It would play it very quietly when plugged in to something.

[@TMCremixes]

For anyone wondering; The record he is playing is Elite Ft. Sabrina Johnston "Satisfy My Love"

[@derekcoe9633]

The album you were playing, was it Queen. 🤔

[@martycathcart143]

Derek Coe it was sex pistols

[@FoxariumForever]

"Actually it works a bit better if you press it harder" >Screeches of hell being produced

[@Nortic111]

I don’t know how I found myself here, but I’m glad I did!

[@belsnickel9568]

It sounded like someone farting into a microphone.

[@tmr_media6927]

CrabLeg 2017 lol

[@jaylaabraham6858]

indeed it did. xD

[@ATPlays]

CrabLeg 2017 Did i just laugh at a fart joke 😂

[@belsnickel9568]

Daz White hey! She has around four good songs. Nothing new though.

[@unsubme2157]

CrabLeg 2017 this made me chuckle like a neanderthal

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

Dan, you should have gotten a record of Harry Enfield's "Loads of Money" to play it with the note :D THAT would have been perfect.

[@Katiethekitten]

That's fucking amazing I wonder if the Canadian notes will do that

[@BlackLukeS]

I like how it’s more similar to distant noise but it becomes an earrape with just a tilt

[@jonathanbruffaerts1324]

Expected to be rickrolled

[@jaylaabraham6858]

same

[@ns3510]

Never gonna give never gonna give

[@Kumimono]

I wonder if making a sort of a cone out the note would have aided in the volume department, kinda like a gramophonetube thingy. Also, are there Queen's speeches available on vinyl? I'm sure there are.

[@killerdinamo08]

Wow! We have these plastic bills for 17 years now and never thought of that although I've needed a needle a couple of times 😅.

[@gaimnbro9337]

Whoever designed this to work needs a raise!

[@pdtech4524]

You get a much better mid range response if you use a £10 note but to get a fuller bass I prefer a £20 note! 👍😲⚠️

[@Duncan_1971]

Try a £50 with some Jungle Tech.

[@beeble2003]

Ah but the £5 was the only polymer note in circulation when the video was made.

[@TallSilentGuy]

That's right, kids. Back in the 20th century we used to play music with witchcraft.

[@pikasnipe1]

I love these videos from 6 years back and I'm still amazed. As a DJ myself that is one of the coolest things.

[@paulstarrish6154]

Damn it weighs five pounds

[@gearoidmcdonagh8492]

Let's get 1000 subscribers without videos!!!! Please tell me that’s a joke

[@paulstarrish6154]

Gearoid McDonagh of course, I know its a different currency.

[@updated5709]

Gearoid McDonagh The real idiot here is the person who didn't instantly realise this was a joke....

[@gearoidmcdonagh8492]

I mean I weighed up the odds the best I could. 1. His channel name is “Let’s Get 1000 subscribers without any videos”. 2. He’s got some autistic free logo from a website generator. 3. Majority of people who say this type of shit are not joking.

[@94nolo]

Sometimes in America, we make jokes.

[@aranthos]

More impressed by the fact you didn’t use this as an opportunity to rickroll Good man

[@harley9698]

Jeez its been 7 years since new 5 pounds!

[@colmiga]

We Australians have been listening to vinyl with our banknotes since 1988 :) (we invented the polymer banknote).

[@urinalcake622]

you guys also invented marmite so

[@4pri792]

Mark Ellem Cool!

[@Feeb5]

Urinal Cake marmite is god

[@dpbusby]

Nothing to do with Aussies, invented in Germany 1800 which wisely left it to the Brits to infect the world with in 1902

[@samuelhumphreys7712]

Mark Ellem And a population of just 24 million yet yous seem to be everywhere

[@johnny_sins_himself]

0:46 video actually starts

[@coopedup2]

That is an awesome discovery.

[@Flashahol]

Fascinating. Steampunk solution for entertainment after the end of the world. Fun Fact: Did you know Romans actually used cups with strings to communicate from one administrative building to another?

[@tritoner1221]

that's actually insane!

[@yobrethren]

This shit bopping, ultra-low-fi is tha future my boy

[@chrisbilling]

😂 insanely lo fi 😂

[@yobrethren]

@@chrisbilling yES Tape players and shitty filters don't have shit on fiver on a vinyl

[@oldschooldude8370]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

[@adelaideautowashes]

Me: alright time to play some of my records Me: whips out a £5 note from the UK

[@ebolarnator1794]

For anyone wondering, I think the track is called Sabrina Johnston "Satisfy My Love" (StoneBridge & Nick Nice House Factor Mix)

[@kawaineko7402]

Stick a needle in a plastic cup and put the needle to the groove. The cup will act as an old-style gramophone horn!

[@nezbit8989]

Notes playing notes and getting into the groove!

[@dodoubledragon]

You have scratch needles? Interesting... you must be known as scratch master wood from now on, a nickname I had once before I use to wash my underwear regularly.

[@danielrichardson4691]

Concordes are not scratch needles! Shure M447's on the other hand :)

[@NOPerative]

British Pound is officially a transmitter/tracking device! Bond would be proud! Not exactly a video I would expect from you and that's what makes it 11/10 (no Amiga or Mac). I'm very proud of you! Neat vid!

[@rockstarbma]

"Calvin Harris move over... 😌" 😂 That was pretty special though. Just the queen doing her thing

[@ro63rto]

Was fully expecting Rick to belt out his signature song.

[@amartinez97]

No matter how many tiems I read into it I'll never understand how vinyl really works and this just makes it all the more amazing.

[@jakobhage5228]

Well. Vibrations or Sound waves are a complex thing, but not as complex as some think they are. We can even break down very complex noises and physically "draw" their soundwaves. The sound pressure difference, that a microphone experiences, for example, can be put in numbers and then put in the form of a graph. We can then "draw" those graphs on a piece of vinyl, for a stylus to read them and translate them in voltages just for your speaker to translate them into noise again. All of this happens on a microscopical level though and that's what makes it magical to me. We are able to make music audible with the help of just a simple vibrating 5 pound note!

[@D4080K]

Rip STEEZ

[@epajarjestys9981]

makes you retarded, that's all

[@D4080K]

@@epajarjestys9981 shut up mate

[@Kyuschi]

well i'd say here's the most basic explaination i can think of: you know how you can feel stuff vibrate when you listen to loud music? well, if you take a horn/microphone to focus that vibration from the loud music into a small needle, then you can have the needle carve those vibrations into a bit of wax. If you then harden that wax and run another needle over the grooves the first one made, it'll vibrate in the same way as the original one did, and thus, since sound is at it's most basic level just vibrations, it'll make the same sound, so you just have to make it louder via another horn and then you have your music! This is more of an explaination of earlier wax cylinders but it's the same concept just with fancier execution for vinyl

[@coolizmc]

too much tracking force!!!!!!! £5 notes must be kept at 1.5 to 3 grams at all times to prevent your record from bursiting in flames

[@4pri792]

OOOIOOII umm... what

[@AVINIDE]

He said, that doing this can damage the record..

[@lynchstan9745]

He was making fun of record enthusiasts

[@CosmosProvider]

Always knew the monarchy was funky in secret

[@amanul_2474]

"My music make money and my money make music"

[@norbertjaworski6077]

Category: education

[@whitestrake2760]

Very interesting. Canada switched to plastic bank notes a while back, so I'm wondering if this trick also works with those. Will have to find a vinyl record player to give that a try!

[@FranklyAussie]

And Australia invented the polymer notes.

[@FranklyAussie]

@Winahh Taylahh I already said that ....

[@FranklyAussie]

@Winahh Taylahh You probably need a brain since you can't read and i aint ya "Bruh"

[@CalamityHillMusic]

I'm gonna try this while snorting a line. Just to feel the vibrations.

[@user-rs5cm7qc3p]

Sounds like I'm on the bus with a person in front of me listening to their loud music where everyone else can hear it too.

[@LBSiUK]

I gotta be honest, quite nifty! Does it ruin your records as much as a Crosley Cruiser though?

[@mkultrasoldier]

LBSi UK NOTHING wrecks your records as much as a Crosley Cruiser. Not even a nuke. Source: A funeral we had to hold for 2 LPs

[@damienlobb85]

Hmmmm I wouldn't buy one but check this out kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zmfac6qMoNxsrrc

[@benjarvis1892]

I love British people

[@benjarvis1892]

All part of the charm mate

[@gearoidmcdonagh8492]

There’s literally no charm at all unless you think going around the streets with a can of Dutch Gold asking people if they’ve got any skins is charming then no.

[@yeremiahangeles7252]

I like Amaricans, they are so friendly and fun ☺

[@christopherdean1326]

We used to do that with stiff paper 50+ years ago, when vinyl records were cutting edge technology!

[@TrillMurray]

Beautiful turntable

[@BarackBananabama]

If you kindly use two of them separated by an inch, you may get certain reverb effects.

[@epajarjestys9981]

What if you do it unkindly?

[@andimjustferocious3653]

Can you lend me a fiver?........mate?

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

Here's a tenner. Buy yourself an axe.

[@regretfulman4784]

You British? Well i am a pure aussie! Just remember we don't ride kangaroos in their pouches...

[@djgates06]

Mt

[@THESLICKNESSEDM]

Well that's neat now I gotta try our similar Canadian notes

[@Melon60625]

Didnt know elizabeth had such amazing singing!