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    What were popular recording devices for music back in the 1940's?

    Question #104891. Asked by brainiac62. (Apr 20 09 4:56 PM)


    goobas

    		the Ampex company produced the first commercially available tape recorders in the late 1940s.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_recording

    Apr 20 09, 8:29 PM
    scottietwenty3

    		Wire recording's most widespread use was in the 1940s and early 1950s.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_recording

    Apr 20 09, 11:59 PM
    looney_tunes

    		Before the development of magnetic recording devices (tape and wire) at the end of the 1940s, phonograph recording (producing cylinders that could be played) was widespread.

    http://www.recording-history.org/HTML/musictech2.php

    http://www.recording-history.org/HTML/musictech6.php

    Apr 21 09, 2:56 AM
    Baloo55th

    		"Inexpensive wire recorders, developed more-or-less independently of the Europeans, were introduced around 1946 and proved to be a short-lived hit. When the first cheap tape recorders appeared around 1948, they quickly stole the market." Quoted from http://www.recording-history.org/HTML/musictech6.php Wire was never really popular, and went out of use even quicker than the 8 track tape cartridge did.

    Apr 21 09, 1:15 PM

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