# Groove and needle in close embrace from beginning to end

- By: Franz van Duns
- Date: 2019-04-28
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Groove_and_needle_in_close_embrace_from_beginning_to_end.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/4/4c/Groove_and_needle_in_close_embrace_from_beginning_to_end.jpg/1920px-Groove_and_needle_in_close_embrace_from_beginning_to_end.jpg
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Technics SL-1200 with SME model 3009 series II improved pick-up arm and Shure V-15 type III Stereo Dynetic Phonograph Cartridge. This image displays both the initial and final positions of the pick-up cartridge with the stylus below resting in the record groove. A music signal is generated when the vinyl record with its engraved audio signal is accelerated to the precise rotatation speed and the lowered stylus thus travels the full length of the groove inwards from the perimeter, i.e. from the beginning to the end.