[78-L] Dual purpose machine...

[Ted Kneebone]

The video of the combination wire recorder and record player is interesting. 
I never owned one of these, but recall seeing one advertised in the Sears, 
Roebuck catalog, about 1947 or 1948, or?
I worked in a radio/appliance store in 1947.  The boss bought the first wire 
recorder in town, and later the school bought one.  Since I was the 
designated recording engineer, the band director asked me to record one of 
their concerts.  The band had played a few minutes of the Chaikovskii 
symphony no. 5, and the wire broke.  Did you ever try to tie a square knot 
in a piece of wire about the diameter of a piece of human hair?  I finally 
gave up and suggested to the band director that we go back to using our 
Wilcox-Gay Recordio and make discs.

Ted Kneebone. 1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401. Phone: 605-226-3344.
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