Comments on: Turn your turntable into a tape machine! (1952) https://www.preservationsound.com/turn-your-turntable-into-a-tape-machine-1952/ information and ideas about audio history Mon, 28 Mar 2016 07:46:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Rory O'Meara https://www.preservationsound.com/turn-your-turntable-into-a-tape-machine-1952/#comment-351610 Mon, 28 Mar 2016 07:46:55 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5099#comment-351610 I have a set of 20 Speak-O-Phone aluminium records coated in a black material. They are dated 1952 and the typed lables state they were used to record speaches and song at a banquet in New York for the retirement of a named priest. The name of the person who made the recordings is also given. This person was a larger than life character whose life is well documented by Google.
Can anyone advise on the preservation of the records and the downloading of the recorded sound?
I live in Dublin, Ireland and the records were brought to Ireland by the retired priest who died in 1963.
Thank you,

Rory.

]]> By: Bafflegab https://www.preservationsound.com/turn-your-turntable-into-a-tape-machine-1952/#comment-25256 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:59:53 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=5099#comment-25256 These actually worked halfway decent for quarter inch full track tape. Provided the station engineers could wire them correctly, and provided the tape reels the station used would fit and mount. But they were playback only.

And they required a big table, which in the pre AOR days was as scarce as a tape machine. Airplay was off the heavy-arm 45 rpm singles tables made for in-desk mounting. When AOR came out, Japanese direct drive consumer tables became the standard.

That’s the way I remember it anyway. YMMV.

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