The Antique Radio Club Of Illinois sold a videotape a few years ago, titled:" An Afternoon With Jack Mullin". It runs 50 minutes, and I believe that it was put out by the Audio Engineering Society. I have a copy, and watch it occasionally. He covers early phonograph history very well, and has an outstanding demonstration of the same Victor record playing on acoustical, then switching to Orthophonic. He was a fine collector of phonographs and tape devices.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Wright" <esrobe...@hotmail.com> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Victor long playing records > From: "Doug" <cdh...@earthlink.net> >> I can't imagine any record maker in the thirties intending their discs to > be >> played with a sound box.> > > Were the heavy electric pickups any better? I had a Brunswick Panatrope > for > a while, and though I never got the amp working, the GE/RCA motor worked > great, quiet and steady. The pickup head was hinged but not > counterbalanced, and it could eat through 30's 78's with the best of 'em. > (The 'plinth' board, if you will, also generated a roomful of acoustic > output.) > > >> All right, on another topic. Magnetic tape recording was IN USE in >> Germany >> in the thirties. Do you think that the recording companies in this >> country >> didn't know about it? It would be a threat to their markets to have a >> recordable medium in the hands of buyers who would otherwise buy disc >> recordings. It proved to be just that, after Jack Mullin imported his two >> Magnetophones at the end of WWII, and Crosby went on the air, using one >> of >> them in 1947. > > With what Germany was brewing up during that time, I wonder if any > technology was leaving the German borders. I'm no WWII expert, but I've > always just assumed there was an iron veil over all the sciences in 30's > Germany. This article on John Mullin touches on this, saying that > "Although > the German technical press covered advances during the 1920s, the '30s, > and > even the early 1940s, Britons and Americans were largely unaware of these > technology developments." It's a fascinating read and answers a lot of > questions (while raising a few); here's the link: > http://www.tvhandbook.com/History/History_mullin.htm > > One wonders. The first magnetic recording was demonstrated in 1898 by a > Danish inventor named Poulsen. Seems the more we know, the more there is > to > learn. I'm gonna go finish that Mullin article. > > -r. > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > Phono-L@oldcrank.org > > Phono-L Archive > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > Support Phono-L > http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank >
