In Reply to: Have you guys actually heard an old Edison machine? posted by JimL on January 13, 2007 at 21:49:02:
...there was only one pickup in those days of no mixing boards and the horn was placed right in front of the singer. He or she had to literally scream into the horn as it was attached directly to the cutting head (direct to disc is not a recent invention!) and was cutting the grooves into a wax master. The marriage of the telephone transmitter to an amplifier had to be a great boon to the singer.
Dave
Later Gator,
Crank up your talking machine, grab a jar of your favorite "kick-back", sit down, relax, and let the good times roll.
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- "orchestra sounded pretty dim and distant but the voice sounded like the guy was singing through the horn" He was; ... - J. S. Bach 07:31:50 01/14/07 (1)