Mechanics of Sound: Turntables of an Era

Mechanics of Sound: Turntables of an Era

Exhibition

Mechanics of Sound: Turntables of an Era

Roman Tkachenko22 June 2026 — 22 June 2027Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv

An exhibition of restored 1950s–70s turntables from Roman Tkachenko's collection.

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Exhibition news⁵

24.08.2026
Why the collection holds no records
Tkachenko collects machines, not music — and what plays is brought by others.
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24.08.2026
A stylus unchanged for forty years
One cartridge arrived with its original stylus — shown, but never used.
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24.08.2026
Measuring speed without instruments
A strobe disc at the platter edge shows drift more simply than any tester.
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24.08.2026
The belt that had to be made by hand
For one deck a rubber belt of the right section is no longer made — one was ordered custom.
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24.08.2026
Mechanics of Sound: restored turntables of the 1950s–70s from Roman Tkachenko's collection
Every machine in the collection works — and some of them actually play in the exhibition.
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