[Dixielandjazz] Electric recording history

[Stan Brager]

I still have a couple of wire recorders in my garage with spools of wire.
There seems to be a problem with one of them in that it doesn't record as
well as it used to. There's probably a wire broken somewhere between the
mike and the recording hardware. I'll have to look at it... someday.

Gordon, if you're interested in this technology, let me know and I can loan
you one for your amusement.

Stan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marek Boym" <nmboym at 012.net.il>
To: <GWW174 at aol.com>
Cc: <Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 4:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Electric recording history


> 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
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <GWW174 at aol.com>
> To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 7:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Electric recording history
>
>
> >
> > 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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