Technics Turntable, used by Grandmaster Flash
date: label: date made
content: 1979 - 1988
name: label: maker
content: Technics
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This Technics brand turntable was made by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., in Japan. It is a SL-1200 MK2 model, originally released in 1979 as a high fidelity record player for the average consumer, and was soon adopted by radio and club deejays. This model also became very popular with early hip hop deejays and was used by hip hop pioneer, Grandmaster Flash.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler), was born in Barbados in 1958. Growing up in the Bronx, he was influenced by his father’s massive record collection. As a teenager, Grandmaster Flash first experimented with DJ equipment and became involved in the New York DJ scene while attending daytime technical school courses in electronics. The innovations and techniques developed by Grandmaster Flash established him as one of the pioneers of hip hop and deejaying.</p>
topic: label: Subject
content: Hip-Hop
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Highlights from the Culture and the Arts Collection
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content: Electronic Musical Instruments
label: Exhibition
content: Entertainment Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Grandmaster Flash
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0060.03
label: accession number
content: 2006.0060
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0060.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: turntable
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45 cm x 37 cm x 8 cm; 17 23/32 in x 14 9/16 in x 3 5/32 in