This invention relates to a record player used for a disc jockey (DJ), and more particularly to a record player suitable for a so-called scratch performance operation by which a phonograph record is directly rotated in forward and reverse direction to output new artificial sound by fingering of an operator which is a kind of DJ performance pattern. In order to suppress the needle skip caused when forwardly/inversely rotating the phonograph record by the finger operation, the positional relationship between the record groove on the turntable and the supporting point P of the arm shaft is defined so as to suppress inward and outward component forces applied to the needlepoint of the cartridge as possible. Therefore, three points, i.e., a start point R and an end point S of the record groove on a straight line B extending from the rotating shaft core C of the turntable in a radial pattern and a rotation center of a tone arm, namely, the supporting point P may form an isosceles triangle with the point P as an apex in a most preferable mode.