[78-L] half track tapes

[bradc944 at comcast.net]

Another machine that has quarter- and half-track playback capability is the Otari MX5050.  I have two in the garage, one in rack-mount and one in the floor-stand-with-casters arrangement.  The switch is somewhere close to the playback head, seen if you flip up the head-cover.

Another point about half-track tapes is that most were in-line (both tracks exactly the same place on the tape, readable by one head), but some were staggered so that two mono heads would play back the stereo.  Unfortunately I don;t have a player for those.

Brad
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert M. Bratcher Jr. 
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 17:12:59 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [78-L] half track tapes

At 09:41 AM 8/8/2009, you wrote:
>Remember the Wollensak with its dial for shifting the playback head down a
>millimetre or two to play half-track tapes with equal balance? Any other
>machines have a feature like that?

Which model is that? I had a worn out Webcore Music Man that would 
shift the playback head with a lever on the back of the head 
assembly.  Threw it away when it stopped playing tapes at 3.75 ips & 
was having trouble with 7.5 ips. Belts were shot really bad but then 
I got it for free.....

>Today, of course, you just look for a Technics 1500 with the quarter- and
>half-track playback heads. Still quite a few of them out there.
>
>dl

Yes for 1.5k to 1.7k on the bay site. 

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