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Re: [ARSCLIST] question about remote recordings from the 20-30s
I suspect it might be that so many GIs came home with accrued combat pay and
technical training
Ward Duffield
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Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] question about remote recordings from the 20-30s
I've heard versions of the same thing but I wonder if it's true. Look at the
dates for the Western
Electric patents on electronic recording, it's the late 20's. Patents run
longer than 20 years,
don't they, or were they shorter then? You'd think WECO could have figured
some twist to extend or
renew the patents but maybe the law was much different then? As late as the
mid-50's, Ampex tape
recorders still cited WECO patents being used with permission, for things
like feedback circuits in
their tape deck preamps and the like.
On the other hand, evidence is that many independent recording services and
studios sprang up after
the end of WWII, so something was going on.
-- Tom Fine
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From: "Parker Dinkins" <parker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] question about remote recordings from the 20-30s
> on 4/30/08 2:16 PM US/Central, Bob Olhsson at olh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> According to a conversation I had with Tom Dowd the reason for this rise
of
>> independent studios and labels was that during the mid '40s the
fundamental
>> electrical recording patents began expiring.
>
> This was also told to me by Cosimo Matassa.
>
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