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Originally Posted by BenG
Not completely true. Consumer wire recorders were around before magnetic tape. I was listening to an old jazz musician on NPR and he was telling about making wire recording's of "Bird" from the radio and learning new riffs before anyone else in town had heard them.
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Have you ever heard a wire recording? I have, and while it might be good enough to allow this musician to remember the sound in order to learn a riff it was certainly not good enough to challenge the entertainment industry with illegal copies.
The tape recorder was the first rival to live music. As a matter of fact the initial development money for the tape recorder was supplied by Bing Crosby. He didn't like multiple takes for his records so he would just record his part and then let everyone else practice to match his recording. He financed and bought the first tape recorders (outside of Germany) in 1947 from Ampex.
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