24.08.2026 20:03
Why the collection holds no records
Tkachenko collects machines, not music — and what plays is brought by others.
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Mechanics of Sound: Turntables of an Era
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Why the collection holds no records
Tkachenko collects machines, not music — and what plays is brought by others.
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20:0324.08.2026A stylus unchanged for forty years
One cartridge arrived with its original stylus — shown, but never used.
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20:0324.08.2026Measuring speed without instruments
A strobe disc at the platter edge shows drift more simply than any tester.
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20:0324.08.2026The belt that had to be made by hand
For one deck a rubber belt of the right section is no longer made — one was ordered custom.
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20:0324.08.2026Mechanics of Sound: restored turntables of the 1950s–70s from Roman Tkachenko's collection
Every machine in the collection works — and some of them actually play in the exhibition.
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24.08.2026 20:03
A stylus unchanged for forty years
One cartridge arrived with its original stylus — shown, but never used.
Read full story24.08.2026 20:03
Measuring speed without instruments
A strobe disc at the platter edge shows drift more simply than any tester.
Read full story24.08.2026 20:03
The belt that had to be made by hand
For one deck a rubber belt of the right section is no longer made — one was ordered custom.
Read full story24.08.2026 20:03
Mechanics of Sound: restored turntables of the 1950s–70s from Roman Tkachenko's collection
Every machine in the collection works — and some of them actually play in the exhibition.
Read full story
