[78-L] Portable recordings facilities

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Tue Aug 3 23:06:39 PDT 2010


From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>  On 8/4/2010 1:40 AM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> From: "Hans en Corrie"<koerthchkz at zeelandnet.nl>
>>> Did portable recording facilities exist in 1930? If so, what record
>>> companies used it?
>>>
>> Apparently Okeh was the first company to use "portable" on-site
>> recording equipment; IIRC they started acoustically around
>> 1922-23.
>> Steven C. Barr
> Are you kidding????  There had been traveling recording sessions all 
> over Europe and Asia going back to 1902 if not earlier.
> 
Nope...not kidding...just referring to North America...!

Steven C. Barr 



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