[78-L] Dual purpose machine...

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 08:52 PM 1/12/2010, you wrote:
>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.
>Old Time Radio: http://abe.midco.net/tkneebone3

So did he let you go back to making discs? If so then where are they 
now? Or did you keep recording on wire from then on? Might be nice to 
hear some of those old recordings if the school orchestra was any good.