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To the Editor:
As a charter subscriber to TAPE RECORD -
ING, I was deeply grieved to lose my file of
this splendid magazine in a fire last week
which wiped us out 100%, including my
recorder equipment, the tapes, etc. If you
know of anybody who has a set of back
issues they no longer need, I'd appreciate
hearing from them. -Edward D. Hurley,
594 Lake Shore Road, Manchester, N. H.
We were very sorry to learn of Mr.
Hurley's plight and have sent him the Dec.
53, Oct. 54, Dec. 54, and Feb. 55 issues.
Our supply of the other issues is now exhausted
and we hope he will be able to
obtain the remainder of back issues from
some other source. Anyone who has spare
copies of the missing issues please contact
Mr. Hurley.
To the Editor:
I am Italian and I have a copy of your
magazine. I like it very much and enclose
the money for a subscription.
I do not have a tape recorder because here
in Italy they are too expensive. It would
be a dream if I could have one, and I would
like to record the first words of my daughter.
Do you know of some old one that
might be of interest to me ?- Repetti, Vincenzo,
Via S. Bernardo I1, Piacenza, Italy.
To the Editor:
Like Jerry L. Heisler of Hopkins, Minn.,
I also recently purchased a tape recorder
and wish to give praise to the wonderful
magazine you are publishing. I too second
his suggestion that you publish more articles
for home users. Please don't just keep the
suggestion in your mind, get them in the
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To the Editor:
I hope it is not too late to reply to Dr.
Roger C. Terkuilé s letter which appeared
in your December issue.
He stated that tape recording was expensive.
That it takes the finest in recording
and playback equipment even to approximate
the results obtained from a fine LP
record and that tape recording is a nuisance.
If by that statement he would include broadcast
recordings, which the sweeping nature
thereof would imply, then in my opinion
he is completely in error. My tape recording
experience also goes back to 1951. With
the benefit of only a medium priced recorder
and a floor model FM console I have built
up a library of good -music station tape recorded
broadcasts in the Washington area
which, at only the fraction of the cost of
LP's, are the envy of several of my LP
friends. And this at the 71/2 speed! Especially
have I found the live broadcasts to be
superior to the excessively amplified LP recordings
one so often hears.
As for expense, I have yet to hear an LP
recording which matches in quality a tape
I made this winter of Ralph Kirkpatrick
playing a harpsichord recital at the Library
of Congress. Cost of the entire concert, including
the Bach Goldberg variations and
ten Scarlatti sonatas: about $2.75. Cost of
a comparable LP: $10.00 more or less. Long
ago the saving in tape cost more than
matched the extra ($75) cost of the recorder,
as compared to a record changer.
One priceless advantage of tape recording
is that one is thereby able to obtain
direct FM broadcasts which, if well engineered,
are, in my opinion, superior to any
LP recording. The latter may have excellent,
and frequently excessive, clarity of reproduction
but invariably there is a thinness, a
lack of "full body" which the direct FM
recording has in abundance. I find proof
of this by comparing tape recordings I have
made of the Budapest Quartet, some of
which are made from LP's and the rest
from direct broadcast. If one can ignore
the coughing and program rustling, the
latter are superior.
Granted, these ideal conditions for recording
are not for everyone. By the same
token, where these conditions do exist, statements
to the effect that tapes are inferior
in quality to, or more expensive than, LP's
simply are not true. As for the alleged
nuisance of tape recording, what can be
easier than sitting at home with the shoes
off and obtaining a fine recording at the
same time one hears it. Far less effort than
shopping for it.- Lucius Kingman, McLean,
Va.
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