The Wire Recorder Story Told by a Wire Recorder - Yes!!

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Hear a Wire Recorder recording from the past played on the Model 80-1.

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I am amazed how good the sound quality is

pauldavies

Wow amazing clean sound from tha wire reel.and a little history of the wire recorder.

ortizramon

Strange to think that that might be the only recording of that lady left :o(

RetroGamerVX

Whoa! I found a very old wire recorder in the attic of my dad's old house in the Mississippi Delta. It was of my great grandfather, who was a lawyer in Indianola (B.B. King's hometown) and about an hour long. Talk about Southern gothic!

landryprichard

The voices in the background reminds me of the old 1970s telephone network where you could hear the crosstalk of other phone conversations leaking through the wires laying next to each other for many miles.

brentfisher

My Dad bought one of these Webster-Chicago machines in 1948. He first used it to record guests at a party that my folks threw to celebrate the opening of the knotty-pine "rumpus room" that had just been constructed in the basement. As each guest arrived, he pointed the mike at them and chatted with them for a few minutes, until he realized that he had forgotten to activate the record function. About 10 years later, after our machine was long gone, I was able to transfer the wire reels that survived to reel-to-reel tape using my high school's machine, except for a recitation at that party by one of our neighbors of a very bawdy poem about a gal he called "Our Nell". This was followed by my Father saying, "That was a rendition by a stranger who wandered in here; and, we just threw him the hell out!"

pianopappy

Thank you for this great slice of audio history ...

WatchdogVideo

"She was would be like a wikipedia

Oh you mean an encyclopedia 😂😂😂😂😂

thebourbonscene

I bought a Model 228 3 for R5.00 ZAR - Five Rand (about $0.40) when I was a radiotrician apprentice - almost qualified - in 1972. The only spool of wire jammed up beyond repair and I managed to get a box with 5 spools for R3! There is a telephone conversation on one spool and the one guy is worried about where the economy is heading... It has only one dictate and one transcribe button instead of the record/listen knobs on this one in the video at 03:15. It has a transparent dust cover with this funny inscription: "Webster-Chicago Dictation Machine with Natural Voice Playback" ;) It also has a carry case and mic. 'Remote' pause/play on mic - hard wired. It is a 60Hz 220VAC version. Should have been 50 Hz for South Africa. So it runs at the wrong speed!
Found this just now: Dictaphone Cover: Cover is made of plastic (yellowed) with black edging. Red printed text on top face: "W C / WEBSTER-CHICAGO / DICTATION MACHINE / with / Natural Voice PLAYBACK"

LeonMare

The authentic giggling at the end got me in the feels

trienos

just recently found one in an antiques store (mod 288 1R), got it cheap. wasnt familiar with it but i was planning on cannibalizing it for parts for the little robots i build as a hobby. took it home and didnt expect it to work but sure enough it did. there was 3 reels, one of a recorded japanese radio show (!) and some silly home recordings, probably from the late 40's, early 50's. sound quality is excellent. one reel's wire is badly tangled. but it was indeed kinda spooky listening to these things on this old machine which were recorded, like, 60 years ago...the closest thing to a 'time machine' i'll ever have!

bure

This is very interesting. I have a wire reel that I think may be the only piece with my brother's voice on it. (He passed away in 1973). I've been thinking about trying to buy one of these so I can listen to it.

youtoobe

wire recorder look so interesting and amazing thanks for uploading and can you upload another video about the celluloid strip recorder invented by franklin c. goodale in 1909 :)

lutuzi