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  • Members: 674
  • Category: Jazz
  • Founded: Sep 18, 2004
  • Language: English
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This group is dedicated to all styles and aspects of pre-war jazz. It was named after the Red Hot Jazz Archives, with kind permission of Mr Scott Alexander.

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Re: hot fives and sevens...
Since we were wondering how an acoustical/ecletrical combination could exist, I just offered the presence of a horn coupled to the carbon mic as a possibility.
Posted - Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:43 pm
 Ron L
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Re: hot fives and sevens...
Thanks to Nick for the investment of time and knowledge. The Mainspring Marsh article I posted earlier mentions 'sound collectors' for carbon microphones and I
Posted - Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:15 pm
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Re: hot fives and sevens...
The carbon microphone was invented in 1878. The BBC used a refined carbon microphone from the mid-1920s for broadcasting - this was the Marconi-Reisz
Posted - Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:27 pm
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Re: hot fives and sevens...
I believe the first microphones were carbon granule or carbon button types, adapted from telephony. Perhaps in the Truetone system, collecting horns were
Posted - Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:18 pm
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Re: hot fives and sevens...
Dave, I can't say for certain if a hybrid acoustic-electric system did or didn't exist, so I'll have to do some digging. But I'm scratching my head trying to
Posted - Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:20 am
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