[GreenKeys] My model 15

[Tom Hunter]

Gerry,

I worked for Karl Hardman at Hardman Associates (now defunct) for many
years. I also traveled with them around the country to set up multimedia
industrial shows. When I heard that Karl had passed away a number of years
ago - I began to realize how much I had learned from him. Mostly that
whatever I might need to do, I could do it.

I worked for Frederick Albitz where I setup and maintained a recording
studio in his basement, mainly for recording commercials..

I also did free lance maintenance for Ralph Cominio's Asterik Recording, in
Wilkensburgh with their 16 track recorder and huge console,  for Glen
Cambell (not the singer) at G&C Records in the strip district with an
8-track recorder  and record cutting lathe.  He was always having trouble
with his EMT plate echo. And one other dinky little studio that I don't
even remember the name of.

I also set up my own little studio in Downtown Pittsburgh with Carl Ide
Associates and recorded, edited and dubbed a syndicated radio program which
he called "Carlideoscope". He had been a well known TV personality in his
time but his eyesight was going. He is gone now and I still have all the
master tapes.

At the time I had a model 15 with very large type. I  would type up scripts
at home on paper tape with my 19 and print them on the large type 15 for
him. Something else I did was save all his outtakes and edit them together
into a show with mistakes in almost every line. He would laugh until he had
to take his thick glasses off and wipe his eyes. I miss him very much.

I gave a my large collection of 19, 15's a 26, etc, to a friend. I just
found out recently that he sold them all and pocketed the money. Needless
to say, I was not very happy. I would love to have a few of those back.

For a few years recently I was recording band and choir concerts for local
schools. I would not charge for the recording, but just a dollar each for
CD's It got to be too much work and I got less and less cooperation.
Finally when a guy started to walk out with one of my microphones, I called
it quits.

I now have a little production studio at home and for over ten years
recorded and edited a 15 minute Sunday morning radio program (at no charge)
for Father Rodney Torbic, a Serbian Orthodox priest who became a good
friend. In that program I used selections by their choir which I had
recorded myself. Making the show come out to just under 15 minutes took a
lot of editing work. I KEPT TELLING HIM NOT TO, BUT HE INSITED ON DENDING
$25 Father Rodney is retired now and I miss recording him very much.

More recently, while I was taking Father's CD's to WMBS, the local radio
station, I got to know one of the DJ's, Timothy Schwer. He retired a couple
years ago and asked me to help him set up a little production studio for
free lance voice work. I gave a him small mixer a condenser microphone that
suited his voice and a computer to record and edit with. I wired it all
together for him. I had to spend hours on the phone with him talking him
through using the computer.  I believe he only sold one commercial to a
local funeral home. He was in poor health and had to go to dialysis twice a
week. Then he got false teeth and had to learn how to talk all over again.
Then a month or two ago his wife called and said he had passed away and was
in the same funeral home. She said I could pick up every thing I had given
to him. That was a very sad trip. But some day, someone else might need it.


Tom N3CRK
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