Re: Valve-operated Fonadek telephone amplifier
It's the latter - which is why I always refer to it as a pickup rather than as a microphone.
Background noise would be introduced via the mechanical focusing of sound into the transmitter of the handset - which is how that part of the hands-free operation works.
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