Seeburg 1000 BMC background music player restoration 

MUZAK didn’t use record players. They used automatic tape decks designed by them in collaboration with Ampex.

No luck getting mine to work. The motor assembly makes a lot of noise without moving the spindle. platter or tonearm. I try to turn it off and it often does so reluctantly, maybe trying to complete a cycle before doing so? Any ideas?

Finally got around to trying it out. No luck. The motor assembly makes a lot of noise without moving the spindle/platter/tonearm. Any ideas?

the motor mounts will cause a noisy motor from the rubber mounts turning to dust, they more than likely will need replacement

love your restoration. looks amazing!

@@Txsoundman Thanks! In the intervening time I posted a video showing some brand-new Seeburg records being played on the machine. You can see it running about two thirds the way through. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EkfxRCDYQ5M.html

Originally, it was 40 per record - 20 on each side, times 25 records, for 1000 songs (hence the name). Later they shortened each record slightly and increased the number of records in the stack to 28.

No.. 16 RPM Records

Yes indeed. 45s are terribly limited with regard to capacity - you'd need several hundred of them to equal the capacity of this machine, assuming you wanted the music to play without the frequent repeats. That was the big selling point for the Seeburg 1000 - it would go some 35 hours without ever repeating a song. Furthermore, it was completely automatic. You switched it on and it did its thing automatically until you turned it off. In the late 1950s, another background music service (Rowe/Customusic) used an elaborate carousel type record changer (basically the same mechanism they used in their jukeboxes) that played 7 inch records that were essentially just like 45s, except they ran at 33-1/3 rpm, and had three songs per side. The machine accepted 100 such records for a total of 600 songs. It was quite a sizeable piece of equipment, as you can imagine.

they were used in stores, malls, and factories. they were very practical in terms that these units needed no real attention, other than maintenance and record changeouts, and tracking at 16 2/3 r.p.m. you would not hear a repeated tune until the next day, and the surface noise was almost non existent, record wear/ needle wear was also not an issue

For me the music is the best part.

they are a little slower than that, 16 and 2/3.

Oh, I get it! Snails' speed! Ha-ha-ha!

I saw one in a "BUTCHER SHOP" back in the 60's, and yes it was active!!!!