What was your first music player? (Not including an instrument or radio)

[3Simon7]

Mine was a record player.

Mono, not stereo!

EDIT..... I added reel-to-reel because I forgot about those!

When I was a kid I would go to the hobby store and the owner's son had
a HUGE reel-to-reel player in there. I don't think his dad liked it!

[SquirrelDip]

Ditto. And I still recall my first record, the sound track to Disney's "The Jungle Book"

[gadgetguy]

I voted Cassette player because it was the first music player that I purchased for myself. I had a mono record player, a Hi-Fi record player, and a reel to reel tape recorder/player, but I had to share them with my brothers so they weren't really mine.

[JimmyJoeBob]

Other

A crystal radio made in school with a wire attached to the window screen to act as an antenna. Water faucet below the window acted as a ground. Picked up Wolf Man Jack in Mexico.

[JohnnyMalaria]

A portable, mono cassette recorder with a microphone that could start/pause recording. I think it was a Sony.

It was a present for Christmas 1975 - Queen was Number One in the UK with Bohemian Rhapsody. My brother got a pair of stereo headphones. While he was listening to the Top 40 on BBC's Radio 1 on Christmas Sunday night, I had the microphone stuck up inside one half of the headphones. I kept turning the mike on and off so ended up with a rather strange 'mix'. We couldn't afford to buy singles (let alone prerecorded tapes or LPs), so recording hits of the radio every Sunday night was our source. I even think I have one of those tapes lurking somewhere with great hits on it such as Una Paloma Blanca. I won't lament the loss of that tape if it happens to have disintegrated!

[Dv8ted2]

I had a children's record player that fit into a carrying case.

[träskmannen]

A mono cassette player / radio of the obscure brand "Electown". It was made of such cheap plastic that it would start deforming if you just whispered "acetone" within 3 meters of it. It used to regularly chew up my cassettes and tie them into big, decorative knots. I loved it!

[JimmyJoeBob]

JohnnyMalaria:

Nice Avatar!

[Conquest10]

Mine was a stereo cassette player. I got it for my birthday in like 1993-94.

[stiltman]

reel to reel

[Faustus]

Mine was a record player.

Mono, not stereo!

Same it was one designed for kids so it closed up into a plastic case. I really put that thing through its paces as a kid.

After that I got a tape player because most places stopped putting singles out on records... well at least most places stopped carrying them.

[tenders]

mine was an 8 track. yeah i know i'm old

[SquirrelDip]

mine was an 8 track. yeah i know i'm old

8-Tracks was in the car, never had one in the house. Anyone recall the 4-Track???

http://www.8trackheaven.com/4track-ads.html

(A little before my time as I was born in '62 but I recall dad having a beater car with one in it)

[thecoalman]

I had one of those cheesy record players that looked like a suitcase with the speaker built in when I was a kid. In my teen years I had the radio/turntable/cassete combo unit with the obligatory clear plastic lid over the turn table. :P

[teegee420]

I received a record player for Christmas at age five, which I used to play my Charlie Brown storybook records.

[Epicurus8a]

Edison Cylinder Player

[tenders]

mine was an 8 track. yeah i know i'm old

8-Tracks was in the car, never had one in the house. Anyone recall the 4-Track???

http://www.8trackheaven.com/4track-ads.html

(A little before my time as I was born in '62 but I recall dad having a beater car with one in it)

i had a portable one. i think i was about 14 at the time.

[hudsonf]

My first was a record player with a built in speaker. I had a radio & 4 track combo but I never had any 4 track tapes. I also had a quad car radio in my car.

[yoda313]

I believe my first player was a sony walkman - a real one with just the am/fm. I can't remember how many times I must have dropped that thing but kept on ticking....

I know I had a cassette player too in school but the walkman is what I remember most..