Right picked this up but really have no clue what it is - well it has a tape deck - can hear a whining noise but no wheels moving ?

lots of knobs and buttons - green light light comes on and if you crank sound up it has life !

speaker in front, looks like only one

heavy and made in japan

so i would like to know what it is for ? and any over info on it please !

cheers B

never seen one of those in particular but we used to have similar in the classes at school. they were called 'coombers' i think.

they just played tapes of people speaking french, talking books, etc so the whole class could hear. dance and gym classes would also use them for music and the like. basically a utilitarian ghetto blaster

just found the sort of thing we had at school, group listen is what theyre for essentially. small pa's

http://www.mediaspectrum.co.za/pa_systems.html

HEY BC......COOMBER ON THE BAY..260484952926....AT THE MO

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayI...geName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Cheers mate - will see if it sells

I plugged a microphone into it and it works like a beatbox amp now the folks down the road can hear what the next track will be by my MC skills there gonna love it

These (like the Coomber machines)were designed for use in schools, village halls etc. They are usually capable of a really nice and loud sound and are very well made.

I used to have a coomber one of similar appearance which produced a huge volume of sound! Coomber still make tape based machines, by the way, and they are not exactly cheap. . .

http://www.coomber.co.uk

Clarke & Smith were another manufacturer of such things, but I don't think they are still in business.

Ahhh, I remember the teacher getting 'the big Coomber cassette player' from the AV room at school!

We used it for Drama and sometimes Assemblies.

Massive black box with a 10 or 12 inch speaker and a cassette deck on the top.

Hey, it has a pitch control! Get another one (or a Sharp GF-9696) and a mixer and you can beatmix cassettes instead of records.