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Looping History
I'd always thought Pierre Shaeffer had invented looping(at least I
thought that since I found out about such things) ,and according to this
history<http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~snyder/em/schaef.html>, he did,only he did
it by cutting a nonspiral groove into a phono disc In 1942 while working
for Radio Televison France. So he would have had access to cutting edge
technology so to speak. His engineer/assistant ,Pierre Henry was a
student
of Messian. Apparently Shaeffer's work lead directly to the
Mellotron,arguably the first commercial looping device
<http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~snyder/em/mc.html#phono> In some circles Les Paul
has long been given credit for inventing multitracking,I don't know how
accurate this is ,but he does seem to have introduced it into popular
music.
But:
"In 1951, RTF provided Schaeffer with a new studio. It included a tape
recorder. This was an important event as the phonograph had been his tool
for composition up to that point. One of the recorders had 5 track
capability. One , known as the Morphophone, had 12 playback heads, which
allowed for tape echo and a pseudo reverb effect. Two other decks known as
Phonogenes were designed to play prerecorded loops at different speeds
(one
came with a 12 note keyboard!). At this time, while stereo was still in
developement, Schaeffer had the means of playing up to 5 separate tracks
with 5 separate speakers.
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