[78-L] Portable recordings facilities

[Michael Biel]

  On 8/4/2010 2:06 AM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> 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

While that stipulation had not been given, you are still quite wrong.  A 
notable example of remote recordings by several companies in 1908 were 
the presidental candidate recordings.  Edison and Victor recorded Bryon 
in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Taft was recorded in Hot Springs, Virginia by 
Columbia, Victor, and Edison.  Columbia traveled to Mexico City in 1904 
and perhaps Cuba in 1906.  Victor also recorded in Cuba I believe.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com