The Folk Singers Heaney, brought up alongside Irish folk music tradition, has witnessed the technological changes overtaking ‘live’ musical activity beloved of the Irish. He weaves the ‘new’ vocabulary of commercialised sound-production, ‘turn-tables’ and ‘grooves’, into a lament. A country boy wiling time away in the city prepares to listen to music on a turn-table. He reflects on his actions: vinyl recordings mean that the same track of well-known lyrics can be played and replayed on demand: Re-turning time-turned words. New technology has resulted in studio-recorded changes in musical reproduction and a new dexterity in using the equipment: fitting [...]