My old newsroom mentor Bob Jones once advised against making claims that something is “the very first”, the “largest” or in this case, “the very smallest” anything–because inevitably someone else will do some digging and find something even smaller, older, etc.

So I now consider such claims to be a challenge–I’m on a hunt to find the very smallest vinyl record player known to man. Is this it? I somehow doubt it, but let’s call it a contender:

–Joe Wallace