Re: Cocoanut Grove

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

OK, I should have said that tape and wire recorders were not commercially 
available in the US at that time. Moreover, had they been available, they would 
not have been easily portable.
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> <<On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:48:25 +0000, dan.strassberg@att.net said:
> 
> > I'd be suspicious of any recording offered. Tape and even wire recorders did 
> > not yet exist at the time.
> 
> Actually, they did.  Both metal-tape and wire recording were
> demonstrated in Denmark around 1900.  Flexible oxide-coated plastic
> tape was invented in Nazi Germany by BASF (then part of industrial
> combine I.G. Farben), and a recorder to make use of it was
> manufactured by AEG.  Hitler used audio tape to distribute his
> propaganda speeches to radio stations, and the technology first became
> known in the West during the liberation of Europe.  This technology
> was independently reinvented a third time by the Brush company during
> the War, but because of the suppressed market for consumer goods,
> Brush's recorder was not available until 1945.  Meanwhile,
> American-made wire recorders were supplied to the Navy for taking
> dictation in places where vibration made traditional phonograph
> recorders unreliable.
> 

> Source: <http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dmorton/wire_recorders.htm>
> 
> -GAWollman
>