LP of the week

The easiest ideas are of course often the best. The turn­table is as circular as a round­about, while vinyl achieves a coherent and emotional rela­tion to music in general and to the KUFA in parti­cular.

Yet it was a long journey from its incep­tion to imple­men­ta­tion. KUFA, the Gehri Aarberg cons­truc­tion firm, the Lyss county council and the depart­ment of civil engi­nee­ring held their breath for four years, to ulti­m­ately set in motion and execute their project.

Along­side the plan­ning and appr­oval, the works them­selves were not quite a walk in the park, with one example seeing volun­teers busy for a full week, with atta­ching the approx. 800 metal plates to the record player.

33 ⅓

You might also say: The KUFA round­about is the right blend of func­tion, shape and reco­gni­tion value, with both the council and spon­sors thus bene­fit­ting equally.

What the turn­table is still missing, however, is a tone arm. It has not (to date) been included, for secu­rity reasons and due to a scar­city in funds. It may still happen, when the speed is turned down to 33⅓.