Sorry for my ignorance, but how do you play an album backwards? Never saw a turntable with a reverse button. Besides, wouldn’t the needle destroy the vinyl if run in reverse?
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No. I ran a radio slot back in the 80’s in a 2-player studio setup where one record plays while the next track is set up. To do that, you have to manually spin the vinyl forwards or backwards to get the needle where you want it. Often that means hearing reversed music.
When I was (briefly) a radio DJ back in the dark ages, that's how we cued up songs properly. Find the beginning of the song, stop it there, and manually rotate it backwards 180 degrees. When you start the turntable again, it will be up to speed at the first note.
You could just stop it and most of them would freewheel so you could spin it backwards by hand. Some actually did have reverse, but it wasn't common. Most needles can handle it fine, otherwise I would have murdered needles when I was spinning House back in my younger days.
Assuming it was a single track reel-reel, meaning the record/playback head covered the entire width of the tape, this makes sense. However stereo tape, or two track, when swapping reels, would this still be the case?
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