We had one when I was a kid. I had my voice when I was 4 or 5 and my grandpa's voice, as well as the rest of my family. I wish it could have been transfered to tape.
2007-09-21 16:56:20 · 6 answers · asked by Old Woman 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
I remember a Christmas Eve around 1948 or 9, where my
grandpa brought in a recording device and sat it on top of the
big radio console. He had us sing a Christmas song and he'd
play it back for us to hear our voices. I wonder if that
machine played the wire you mention? I never knew there
was that type of recording 'tape'. I was too short to see inside
the machine being small. I just remember a dark box on top
of the old radio. So thanks for mentioning this.
2007-09-22 06:50:46 · answer #1 · answered by Lynn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have the reels, you may be able to have the audio transferred. There are people who specialize in this sort of thing--generically it's known as 'dead media'--and with some Internet research you may yet be able to find someone who has restored one of these wretched machines to health.
For those who don't know, a wire recorder was an ancestor of the tape recorder that recorded the music or voice on a piece of very fine piano wire. The sound was lousy, but you could hold a lot of wire on a reel, which made them popular for long-term voice recording, like for wiretaps, even after tape recorders were developed.
I'm pretty sure that there are recording studios out there who might be able to help you.
2007-09-21 17:29:20 · answer #2 · answered by 2n2222 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what you mean by "wire recorders". I do know that my dad used to get out his cassette recorder and make recordings of me and my sisters when we were little (some 40 years ago), and he also has recordings of family visits. I've listened to some of them and they are so interesting!
With all of the new technology, I'm sure that there must be some way to transfer them to tape or cd.
2007-09-21 18:20:33 · answer #3 · answered by noonecanne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never saw one, but I heard about them. My father collected folk songs in Appalachia in the 1930s and used a wire recorder to record the songs. But that was before I was born.
2007-09-21 18:13:20 · answer #4 · answered by BrooklynInMyBones 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My parents had a wire recorder. Mom and her friend used to write scripts and get sound effects and have fun recording their homemade plays! I watched. I think it got thrown out with the trash many years ago.
2007-09-22 04:23:24 · answer #5 · answered by Granny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep, little reels of wire, a precurser of tape. The fidelity was god awful, it was the only recording of my dad's voice I had...somewhere along the line, it was lost, like so much in life.
2007-09-21 19:29:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋