{"id":7691,"date":"2023-07-27T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T09:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2023-07-27T12:49:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T10:49:46","slug":"fibre-needles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2023\/07\/27\/fibre-needles\/","title":{"rendered":"Fibre needles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reading through some old magazines again&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/worldradiohistory.com\/UK\/Gramophone\/Gramophone-1930-10-.pdf\">The Gramophone magazine from October, 1930<\/a>. In the editorial, Compton Mackenzie says<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"477\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/fibre_needles.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7692\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/fibre_needles.png 299w, http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/fibre_needles-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>What caught my eye was the discussion of gramophone needles made of &#8220;hard wood&#8221;, and also the prediction that &#8220;the growth of electrical recording steps &#8230; to grapple with that problem of wear and tear.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact that electrical (instead of mechanical) recording and playback was seen as a solution to &#8220;wear and tear&#8221; reminded me of my first textbook in Sound Recording where &#8220;Digital Audio&#8221; was introduced only within the chapter on Noise Reduction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later in that same issue, there is a little explanation of the &#8220;Electrocolor&#8221; and &#8220;Burmese&#8221; needles.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/burmese_electrocolour.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7694\" width=\"398\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/burmese_electrocolour.png 530w, http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/burmese_electrocolour-300x291.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The March 1935 issue raises the point of wear vs. fidelity in the Editorial (which starts by comparing players with over-sized horns).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"414\" height=\"981\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/fibre_or_steel.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7698\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/fibre_or_steel.png 414w, http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/fibre_or_steel-127x300.png 127w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I like the comment about having to be in the &#8220;right mood&#8221; for Ravel. Some things never change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s funny is that, now that I&#8217;ve seen this, I can&#8217;t NOT see it. There are advertisements for fibre, thorn, and wood needles all over the place in 1930s audio magazines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading through some old magazines again&#8230; This time, it&#8217;s The Gramophone magazine from October, 1930. In the editorial, Compton Mackenzie says What caught my eye was the discussion of gramophone needles made of &#8220;hard wood&#8221;, and also the prediction that &#8220;the growth of electrical recording steps &#8230; to grapple with that problem of wear and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,66,4,25,6,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acoustics","category-analogue","category-audio","category-history","category-recordings","category-vinyl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p48hIM-203","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7703,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions\/7703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}