I bought our record player over forty years ago.

I'm too cheap (and stuck in my ways; and dedicated to buying as little as possible in order to throw away as little as possible) to replace it, but for about ten years I've been puzzling over why the left speaker was not getting a signal from it. (I could sorta mono-ify the sound, but not entirely.)

Today I figured it out: a switch in the amplifier (same age) was dirty and needs a cleaning. Now that I know what it is, I'm feeling better. And hearing stereo again.

I'll get around to hauling the amp out and opening it and squirting something in the switch. But this afternoon I pulled a record off the shelf at random (it was Head, Hands and Feet, the first album, the double one that Ricky Skaggs later got Country Boy off) and played it with some delight. (Some of the music has aged well; some more not so.)