Here’s an almost funny wiki that indexes obsolete skills. They listed “Balancing The Tonearm On A Turntable” but people quickly came to the defense of this necessary skill. It’s twice as hard when you’re setting up for scratching. Link
Balancing The Tonearm On A Turntable Is Not An Obsolete Skill
By G Wednesday February 20, 2008
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[...] playing on quarter-inch thick Edison records, or watching my dad carefully place pennies on the tonearm for some inexplicable reason. I even remember the phonograph record of the 1812 Overture, [...]