Before Thorens Turntables, Thorens made mechanical musical movements for music boxes and apparently beer steins.  It was 1968 when my parents moved into the new home, I was eight years old and started exploring the castle(what my friends called it), an English Tudor style built in 1928, you know, one of those homes with a round tower front, round foyer with old steel casement windows, clay tile roof, flagstone porches front and rear, etc.  The former owners left behind lots of stuff including a small grand piano, furniture to fit curved walls.  These beer steins were left on the bar shelves.  My bedroom over the garage had a built in speaker system in a wall with a crawl space access to it from the closet and also access to one of the attics from the bathroom.  I found all sorts of old stuff, mechanical windup toys, books gadgets, antennas.  When I saw the steins I immediately laid claim to them, well actually know one else cared.  It wasn't until years later that I recognized the Thorens connection.  I even showed one once to Thorens reps at a CES show in the eighties in Chicago who surprisingly were unaware of this part of there history.