{"id":556,"date":"2014-11-18T11:56:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T17:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2014-11-18T13:08:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T19:08:47","slug":"seeburg-1000-window-unit-background-music-player-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/seeburg-1000-window-unit-background-music-player-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeburg 1000 &#8220;Window Unit&#8221; Background Music Player restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='625' height='382' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ihj4tVDDeGw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A recently edited presentation of our Seeburg 1000 BMC player. We call it the &#8220;Window Unit&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seeburg 1000 players employ special 9&#8243; records with 2.5&#8243; center holes. The device plays both sides of each record, then lifts the stack to the top of the spindle for replay. Seeburg BMS (background music systems)\u00a0were In widespread use in department stores, restaurants, and other retail and industrial locations from the early 60&#8217;s through the late 70&#8217;s. They have become very popular mid-century modern artifacts. \u00a0 The thousands of \u00a0music selections were individually crafted by professional musicians and studios, and are utterly representative of \u00a0a unique and often forgotten part of American culture. \u00a0 The 16 rpm\u00a0records are widely available on ebay.<\/p>\n<p>This is my 4th complete restoration of a Seeburg 1000 player. \u00a0Thanks for watching!<\/p>\n<p>-Pete Verrando<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently edited presentation of our Seeburg 1000 BMC player. We call it the &#8220;Window Unit&#8221; Seeburg 1000 players employ special 9&#8243; records with 2.5&#8243; center holes. The device plays both sides of each record, then lifts the stack to the top of the spindle for replay. Seeburg BMS (background music systems)\u00a0were In widespread use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[95,94,93,82,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txsound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}