[Dixielandjazz] Electric recording history

[Marek Boym]

Hello,
Magnetophone (Magnetophon in German) is still used for tape recorder (as I 
have found in the German-English dictionary, there is also another word for 
that) in various languages (magnetofon in Polish, and the same, but in 
cyryllic characters, in Russian).
Cheers
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>
> Admittedly I am not an "expert" on the history of magnetic recording but I 
> do
> recall a lot of the technology was developed by the Germans with a device
> called the Magnetophone which evolved into a WIRE recorder (pre-tape) 
> which
> recorded sounds onto a magnetic wire.  Oddly enough I have a "spool of 
> magnetic
> wire" marketed by Sears and Roebuck... in the original box...I can 
> remember as a
> kid in my early early teens spending hours trying to untangle the wire
> knots...... but I digress... Electric recording was originally clouded in 
> secrecy but
> did originate in Germany and was perfected by such companies as Western
> Electric and RCA.
>
> Hope this adds a bit of knowledge to the subject.  Sure there is some
> information on the subject in the website for the AES - Audio Engineering 
> Society.
>
> Gordon of Northridge
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