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  2. Recorder (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, Tarasov reports that some recorders by Baroque makers were modified, around 1800, through the addition of keys, including a J. C. Denner (1655–1707) basset recorder in Budapest and an alto by Nikolaus Staub (1664–1734) with added G ♯ keys, like the D ♯ key on a baroque two-key flute. Another modification is the narrowing ...

  3. History of sound recording - Wikipedia

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    Ring-and-spring microphones, such as this Western Electric microphone, were common during the electrical age of sound recording c. 1925–45.. The second wave of sound recording history was ushered in by the introduction of Western Electric's integrated system of electrical microphones, electronic signal amplifiers and electromechanical recorders, which was adopted by major US record labels in ...

  4. Tape recorder - Wikipedia

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    The first wire recorder was the Telegraphone invented by Valdemar Poulsen in the late 1890s. Wire recorders for law and office dictation and telephone recording were made almost continuously by various companies (mainly the American Telegraphone Company) through the 1920s and 1930s.

  5. History of multitrack recording - Wikipedia

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    AMPEX 440 (two-track, four-track) and 16-track MM1000 Scully 280 eight-track recorder using 1 inch (25 mm) tape at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. Multitrack recording of sound is the process in which sound and other electro-acoustic signals are captured on a recording medium such as magnetic tape, which is divided into two or more audio tracks that run parallel with each other.

  6. Sound recording and reproduction - Wikipedia

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    Before analog sound recording was invented, most music was as a live performance. Throughout the medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and through much of the Romantic music era, the main way that songs and instrumental pieces were recorded was through music notation. While notation indicates the pitches of the melody and their rhythm many ...

  7. Videocassette recorder - Wikipedia

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    It recorded in black-and-white, the only format available in the UK at the time as color broadcasts were not available until BBC Two began broadcasting in color in 1967. [10] [11] [12] An original Telcan Domestic Video Recorder can be seen at the Nottingham Industrial Museum. [citation needed]

  8. Phonograph cylinder - Wikipedia

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    In December 1877, [5] Thomas Edison and his team invented the phonograph using a thin sheet of tin foil wrapped around a hand-cranked, grooved metal cylinder. [6] Tin foil was not a practical recording medium for either commercial or artistic purposes, and the crude hand-cranked phonograph was only marketed as a novelty, to little or no profit.

  9. Dictation machine - Wikipedia

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    It includes digital voice recorders and tape recorder. ... Thomas A. Edison had invented the phonograph in 1877, ... Some early phonographs were indeed used this way, ...