Abstract: A gymnastics apparatus having a support rod and a handle bar movable toward and away from one another against the force of a spring. A connecting rod and a pipe is arranged between the support rod and the handle bar, the pipe surrounding the connecting rod and housing the spring. A spring abutment member which opposes the connecting rod can be adjusted in an axial direction in the pipe and can be fixed relative to the pipe. In order to facilitate, in such a gymnastics apparatus, an adjustment to various body sizes, the invention provides that the connecting rod is connected, if desired hingedly, to the support rod and the pipe to the handle bar.

Abstract: A magnetic tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus suitable for cooperation with a magnetic tape (1) accommodated in a cassette (10) is provided with a tape guide device (18) which comprises two substantially cylindrical tape guides (19, 20) each mounted on one of two movable supports (21, 22) for withdrawing a portion of the tube from the cassette and wrapping it around a tape guide drum (2). For moving the two supports there is provided a wire drive arrangement (38) which comprises two alternately rotatable wire drums (39, 40) and three wires (41, 42, 43), the first wire (41) passing from the first write drum (39) to the first support (21), the second wire (42) passing from the first support to the second support (22) and the third wire (43) passing from the second support to the second wire drum (40).