Where to buy a Western Electric microphone
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:21 am
At one time I was the assistant director of the Birthplace of Country Music Alliance in Bristol, Tn-Va. The BCMA is a not-for-profit organization founded to commemorate the 1927 Bristol Sessions conducted by Ralph S. Peer for the Victor Talking Machine Company, which Johnny Cash called "the Big Bang" of country music, where the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers were discovered, and providing the business model that the entire music industry was built upon for decades.
The BCMA has been on a fund-raising mission for the past several years to build a cultural heritage center and museum in a historic building in downtown Bristol, and they have successfully raised over $12 million to fund that project and work has begun.
Since Peer used Western Electric recording equipment at the Sessions, the organization is seeking a WE 1-A microphone housing to purchase. Since this is a display item and need not work, the microphone capsule itself need not be present. Can anyone refer me to reputable antique microphone dealers? Thanks!
The BCMA has been on a fund-raising mission for the past several years to build a cultural heritage center and museum in a historic building in downtown Bristol, and they have successfully raised over $12 million to fund that project and work has begun.
Since Peer used Western Electric recording equipment at the Sessions, the organization is seeking a WE 1-A microphone housing to purchase. Since this is a display item and need not work, the microphone capsule itself need not be present. Can anyone refer me to reputable antique microphone dealers? Thanks!