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Old 8th May 2019, 7:30 am   #27
Ted Kendall
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Location: Kington, Herefordshire, UK.
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Default Re: Reel to reel revival

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Originally Posted by AC/HL View Post
My first job in the trade was with a small dealer in my home town, Pudsey. One of the partners, Arthur Harding had built a recording studio, and made his own master tape recorder, including the heads, although I never visited there. The shop is a musical instrument dealer these days.
The founders of Calrec (originally the Calder Valley Recording Group) built all their studio kit, including tape machines. I expect they bought in motors and heads. As David says, heads are the major problem. I don't think they have been made outside Japan for twenty years, hence (among other things) the BL campaign to get tapes copied into digits whilst there is still the equipment to do so.
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