Woody Guthrie Wire Recording

[@?,*???&?]

This has recently been restored.

http://www.woodyguthrie.org/livewirepre ... .htm#track

I am intrigued by this. A guy I know has a functioning wire recorder. What a great character sound- no?

[drumsound]

Pretty neat. Thanks for posting this Jeff.

[heylow]

Wow....

+1 on the posting...cool stuff!

I'm always intrigued by wire recording in general but Woody Guthrie makes it all the more interesting.




heylow

[i am monster face]

I have an old wire recorder with a big spool of a high school football game. Omaha vs. Elkhorn. We don't know the year. Obvilously not as cool as that. That seems really cool.

Thanks for sharing!

[scott anthony]

I was at JRF last week and they had a copy in the waiting room. The book is absolutely gorgeous.

[cfMC]

I heard one song off this on an MP3 blog, the quality was a lot better than I might have imagined


another great wire recording collection I have is the mosaic box of the once long lost dean benedetti charlie parker wire recordings

[Mudcloth]

There's an old Webster wire recorder with around 12 spools of wire and the mic for $70.00 at an antique shop here in Elgin. I came an inch away from buying it last month but I'm not sure how much it would cost to get it up to speed. It might work just fine as it is but it would be a gamble. There was an article in an old Tape Op issue from at least 8 years ago about a guy with one. Maybe it's in the Tape Op book.
Anyway, thanks for posting this, @?,*???&?. Now I have to go back and see if it's still there!

[MichaelAlan]

Badass.

[ideaofnorth]

The first issue of tapeop i bought because of the cover feature on Warren Defever of His Name Is Alive, who used a wire recorder (Webster portable?) for an album of folk/mining songs.

When we moved to Maine in 2001, I bought a floor model wire recorder from a yard sale, whose guts (old tube model) were a mess. i thought naively I'd be able to restore it, but ended up selling it to Nemo from Timelag Records.