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Word: recordist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Recordist Howard had some hard words for radiomen: "Most stations play a hundred records a day, and they play every last one wrong. Take the new Crosby show. Everybody complains that Bing has lost his voice, that the recording is tinny and distorted. That's nonsense. Bing sings about as well as he ever did, and the recording is all right. It's the stations that play it wrong. The grooves in a record are cut at varying angles and depths with styli of varying sizes. Records have to be played back with corresponding needles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Perfectionist | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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