[78-L] 1927 Transcription Recorder

[David Lennick]

On 1/24/2013 1:00 PM, David Breneman wrote:
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> --- On Thu, 1/24/13, Mark Durenberger<Mark4 at durenberger.com>  wrote:
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>> Could it have been Poulsen's wire
>> recorder, refined?
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> Much more likely would be a cylinder phonograph.  They were
> still popular amongst anthropologists and other people
> who needed to make field recordings.
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For jazz records in 1943?

Original message:

On 1/24/2013 8:31 AM, David Lewis wrote:
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> The annotation to a Bunk Johnson/Yerba Buena session on the Bunk Johnson online discography contains this comment:
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> "The session was recorded by Pat Patton on a 1927 transcription recorder."
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> http://www.weijts.scarlet.nl/430412.htm
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> Does anyone have an idea as to what device this could be referring to? 1927 is really early for home recording, and
> to my knowledge such transcriptions as we have from years like 1927 are still being made by the commercial studios.
>
> Uncle Dave Lewis
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