This working cardboard record player is one example ... including a movable needle arm held on with a magnet and a volume slider.
shared video of a Sharp VZ-1600 all-in-one stereo with a record player from 1981. What makes the turntable aspect so unique is that it has a linear tracking arm that plays both sides of the record ...
There was a time when describing the operation of a record player would have been unnecessary ... The tonearm takes the form of a balanced arm on a pivot that carries the cartridge and needle ...