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...Tune in on communication among fish as well as on transmissions from distant galaxies, and hear, on immediate playback, the sound of their own voices as they would have been recorded on equipment available in 1900, 1920 and today...
...noninstrumental sounds-and create a few that are not so well known. It does not have all the range and flexibility of those synthesizers, but it does have one advantage. They normally put their sounds onto tape, which is then brought into the concert hall and fed into a playback machine. The Syn-Ket eliminates the need for this, since it is played like an instrument...
This 99-minute bash was filmed with a great effort at spontaneity; Sellers and Producer-Director Blake Edwards worked with a minimal script and checked each scene with instant playback on video tape. The result of the ad-lib approach, however, is not a swinging riot of originals but a parade of old reliables. A drunken waiter weaves around with his tray of drinks, the toy arrow with a suction cup on its end finds its way to someone's' forehead as inevitably as the foaming detergent finds its way into the swimming pool...
Simplicity came three years ago with the introduction of the tape cartridge. The cartridge is a plastic case somewhat smaller than a paperback book. It contains a continuous loop of tape that automatically starts rolling when the cartridge is inserted in a slot on the playback machine; thus the user never touches the tape itself...
...must be removed and turned over at the midpoint of its playing time, which averages 40 minutes. Since it moves even more slowly than the cartridge, it sacrifices still more sound quality. But it boasts two big advantages. Unlike most cartridges, it can be wound forward or backward for playback of selected portions of the tape. And a blank cassette can be used in most players to record directly from radio, TV, disks-or a concert stage...