That is amazing, and also kind of a durability nightmare. I wonder how they designed the needle assembly to withstand the rigors of 6-year-old operators.

I must've been 12 or so before my parents would let me even touch the record player on their stereo. Not without reason, to be sure: the stereo's 8-track player had been irretrievably broken before I was born when one of my siblings decided that it looked hungry and fed it a peanut butter sandwich.