[78-L] Portable recordings facilities
Banjo Bud
banjobud at cfl.rr.com
Wed Aug 4 08:09:30 PDT 2010
How about Victor's recording of Lindberg's return home, narrated by Graham
McNamee?
Bud
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From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 2:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Portable recordings facilities
> 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
>
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