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| Tom Wagner |
 Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:39 am |
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Wow!
Here is a picture of the back of the photo:
My guess is that this microphone wasn't used all that much.
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| Mike Sommer |
| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:24 pm |
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In the upper left hand corner of this amazing picture (tagged #12) is a much smaller version of of what was I believe is called tuned pipe or tube microphone.
http://chss.montclair.edu/~pererat/i_9900.gif
In my earlier post "Shotgun's Daddy" where I displayed a parabolic reflector microphone, the next step up was the mic show in your picture.
It works on the similar principle of putting a paper tube agents your ear and pointing it at a sound source. In this case the center tubes focuses in on the main source and the outer tubes tune or cancel out the unwanted sounds or frequencies. Kind of like how different size pipes on a organ produce different tones or frequencies, except in this case in reverse.
I've read the theory of this mic a long time ago, I may be wrong. |
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| Tom Wagner |
| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:42 pm |
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I like how they need to let us know that it's a CBS microphone  |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:07 pm |
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| These bundled tuned tube arrays were apparently the first attempts at adding "shotgun" reach to existing standard microphones. As far as I know, they were designed as separate attachments, adaptable to fit various types and brands of microphones - and not necessarily manufactured as any particular complete "long throw" microphone model unit. I believe they could be fitted to dynamics, condensers, and even ribbon mics, to give them "super reach". |
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| Mike Sommer |
| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:58 pm |
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Here is another image I found of a "Tube Mic".
Quote: As far as I know, they were designed as separate attachments, adaptable to fit various types and brands of microphones |
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| Mike Sommer |
| Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 11:45 am |
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I found it quite by accident.
This appears to be the "tube" microphone in your picture Tom, I will query its owner as to make and model and post ASAP. I will say the Microphone end looks like a bastardized RCA Type 50-A Inductor Microphone.
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| Tom Wagner |
| Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 2:04 pm |
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| Are those items on the near end of the counter telephones or microphones? |
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| Mike Sommer |
| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 2:38 pm |
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Yes those are so called "telephone" mics/transmitters.
In the early years of radio it was a hobbyist activity, in that if you waned a radio you had to build it; these were spark gap transmitters only able to "narrowcast" the pops and clicks of Moris code.
Around 1919 Audio Broadcasting became a reality with tube transmitters and crystal sets - still a hobbyist venture. Even on the low wattage AM transmitting side, one could not just pop down to the local electrons house and pick up an microphone, thusly telephone carbon mics were put into use early on.
Carbon mics were inexpensive but plentiful. This unsophisticated equipment had a limited frequency response, thusly deep voices were more easily understood. This is what many believe lead to the tradition of male announcers with big booming voices in those early days of radio. Then there was the school of thought that lasted well into the 1960's that a female voice could not carry enough authority. But I say "Hogwash," when you consider the power that Tokyo Rose had in the South Pacific, during WWII. |
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