[78-L] Portable recordings facilities

[Erwin Kluwer]

What about cylinder recordings? Especially the  very early ones
1889-1894...these were recorded any place you could set up the cylinder
player/recorder.....

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

>  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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