[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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