[Vintage-Audio] Re RCA Nashville Studios

[LeeHazen at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/25/06 9:44:56 PM Central Daylight Time, 
w9ran at oneradio.net writes:

<< Lee, welcome to the group, I know many of us really appreciated and 
 enjoyed your comments.

Thank you very much !  I enjoy talking about Nashville, my home of 38 years.
 
 <<Would the NYC studio have been called "Webster Hall" by chance?  I see 
 that name on several vintage RCA recordings.

I don't think so.  There were some wonderful places to record in NYC - 
Churches,
etc.
 
 <>

Actually, tying a square knot IS the approved way of splicing wire.  Actually
doing it is another story.  I had to splice a wire yesterday as the machine I
was working on had a brake problem with the takeup drum.  From play, when
stopping the wire, the takeup drum was free to turn, throwing a loop in the 
wire.

Do an ebay search for "wire recorder" and you'll find 13 or more items 
including
several model 80 wire recorders.  They are very plentiful and inexpensive to
obtain and are very easy to repair and work on.  I've never seen one wear out,
other than the head.

My first recorder was a Silvertone portable wire recorder - I was also 12 at 
the time.
I got my first tape recorder in l957 - a used and well worn Webcor 210 from
WNDB FM in Daytona Beach.  I obtained an RCA 7 TR 3 about 9 months later
and a year later got a Berlant Concertone Series 30 full track 15 ips 
Broadcast
recorder - traded the RCA even for it with WDAT AM in South Daytona.

I still have that Berlant in the collection.

I tend to keep things around -  too many things - -

Lee