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Offline ironbut

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Alan Lomax speaks
« on: March 21, 2013, 11:23:50 PM »
Here's a great article "Saga of a Folksong Hunter", written by Alan Lomax and published May 1960 in HiFi Stereo Review magazine.
It tells the tale of Lomax's travels around the world recording and preserving the cultures that existed.
For a little background, the first tape recorder that he refers to would seem to have been a Brush Soundmirror which "disintegrated".
When in Europe, the Magnecord he used was mono.
And once he began to record in stereo, an Ampex 600 portable was to become the machine he used.

http://www.culturalequity.org/alanlomax/ce_alanlomax_saga.php

BTW, if you've never checked out the "Cultural Equity" site that is maintained by his heirs, there are other fantastic articles not to mention some 10k+ audio files including Lomax's earliest recordings.
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Re: Alan Lomax speaks
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2013, 08:33:38 PM »
Thanks for the last two "history lesson" posts Steve.
Always fun. Both members of the Lomax family, father and son, and also Cook with his early binaural /  stereo.
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