‘American Epic’ TV Series Examines 1920s Recordings

[Meltrope3]

Coming up soon...Here's a link to the trailer on YouTube. The shots of the weight-driven disc recording apparatus in operation looks fascinating!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcbATyomETw[/youtube]

Louis

[Wolfe]

This explains a little better what in tarnation this is supposed to be :

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/ ... ings/?_r=1

[Wolfe]

If you want to see a weight driven lathe you can see one working here :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcfZlub3meg

Although - unlike the clip I linked to - these American Epic things would probably be electrical (microphone) recordings rather than acoustic.

Weight driven lathes were found in some recording studios for many years, even into the 1950's.

[Cody K]

This series looks fascinating. Thanks for posting!

Weight driven lathes were found in some recording studios for many years, even into the 1950's.

And here I first learned about 'em just last week! Embarrassed to admit it, I am, but there's always room for info! Nobody tells me anything...

[Springmotor70]

Looks great! I saw St Louis' own Pokey Lafarge recording in the montage.