GC1Q13D From Dictaphone to MP3 (Traditional Cache) in Massachusetts, United States created by Geosplunk

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Hidden : 5/2/2009

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From Dictaphone to MP3

The early days of recorded music date to the end of the 18th century when a Swiss watchmaker had a idea for what we now call a music box.

A Phonautograph ----(1857) was the first device to record arbitrary sounds. Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinsville gets credit for this. People think of Thomas Edison’s’ Phonograph----(1877) as the beginning, but his was only a slight improvement on Martinsville device.

Next came the Gramophone---(1887) by Emile Berliner. He replaced the cumbersome cylinders (last ones produced in 1929) with a flat disc.(early form of vinyl records)

Around 1925 electrical recording began, vastly improving the quality of sound recording .For the next 5 or so years the phonographs were still hand cranked with folding horns for speakers which relayed a flat sound.By the end of the 1930s',crystal pick-ups and electronic reproduction changed those same sounds into real life-like sounds.

Magnetic recording was the next innovation.
Although magnetic recording was demonstrated as early as 1898 by Valdemar
Poulsen’s Telegraphone : which evolved into the magnetic wire which evolved into the magnetic tape recorder. By the end of the 1930’s the magnetic tapes quality was so good the giant recording artist Bing Crosby wanted to use the tapes instead of live broadcast ---which was the norm for the times.
The tapes evolved into reel-to-reel, multi-tracking , 8 tracks(remember them) , cassettes, over-dubbing, Dolby noise reduction, surround sound so on and so on.

By the 1980’s Digital recording began coming into use, though not totally displacing analog recording it has led the way to today’s CD’s- MP3’s and audio capabilities. As a way to pay homage to this great technology, I place this cache. I will start this hide with cd’s of my sons’ original music, recorded at home on some of his equipment. Would like to hear from other originals. Please ::::Take a cd ---- leave a cd .

Looking for a camo lock & lock. This cache is hidden in a ravine behind what was once a church,now owned by a very nice man who turned it into a recording studio.He request that parking be on the side by the guardrail and that we be respectful of the lack of available parking.There is no reason to look in nearby cemetary.DO NOT PARK IN FRONT OF CHURCH!!! Please be respectful of all surroundings.

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