Recordio wilcox gay

I can only imagine the other discs floating around out there that may contain great music or have historical events on them.

This piece of recording history has its place in the timeline of devices.

Once the stylus hit the first groove of the record I heard what seemed to be a small child talking to birds. The same electronics in a more modest lowboy console was also available for $129.95, and a portable unit (apparently without radio) was available for $74.50.

That wasn’t the only expense involved, however. These machines also included an AM radio receiver.

His father had died and left a collection of old records, stacked in cardboard boxes collecting dust on the back porch. The blank records ranged in price from 75 cents for six 6-1/2 inch disks, up to $2.25 for the same number in the 10-inch size.

The final product, which could of course not be erased, meaning that only one take was available, was a standard 78 RPM record that could be played on any phonograph, such as that owned by the gentelman shown at the top of the ad.

The manufacturer, Wilcox-Gay Corp.

West Port, CT: Greenwood.

Welch, W., & Burt, L. (1995). I pictured the recorder being turned on and left sitting on a table to capture the events taking place throughout the room. The company continued to make similar machines in the 1950’s, but later models included a magnetic recorder in the same unit, which would allow recording a master before cutting the disk.

One could certainly not hear clear enough to make out a conversation. I sorted through vinyl, acetate, plastic, and even cardboard records with a plastic side that played. I never knew a kid that actually got one, but I recall an episode of “The Honeymooners” where Ralph got one to make a record for his wife Alice after they got into an argument.

It's just a guess, but I'll take a shot and say that record very well could've been made by a machine from the Wilcox-Gay Corporation from Charlotte, Michigan.

Wilcox started out on W.

Lawrence Avenue in Charlotte back in 1910 making amateur radio components and kits. In its debut year the Recordio device sold 25,000 units, but with the Great Depression underway and the adoption of magnetic tape the Wilcox-Gay Corp.

Recordio: Home Recording in the 1930s