Re: [ARSCLIST] Strips of plastic play audio when you run your teeth over them

["Prentice, Will" <Will.Prentice@xxxxx>]

George Brock-Nannestad wrote:

----- yes, the German Tefifon was a cartridge with an endless strip of 
plastic ... <snip> It was a reproduction format only.



Tefi did produce a recordable medium similar to that which George
describes. The linguist and musicologist Arnold Bake used a Tefifilm
recorder during his travels in India. The following comes from the
journal Ethnomusicology Vol 38 No 3 (Fall 1994) p566, in a review of a
VHS video entitled "Bake Restudy 1984" by Nazir Jairazbhoy and Amy
Catlin:

"On their third trip (1937-46) Bake added to his equipment the unique
Teficord audio recorder that cuts grooves into the gelatine along the
length of an endless loop of 35mm film. With the Tefi recorder it was
possible to make continuous recordings of as long as one-hour duration
using the longest films (20 meters) which were, however difficult to
handle." 

Regards

Will

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