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Re: Sound from the Abbey

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From: tony@bancom.co.uk (tony sayer)
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Subject: Re: Sound from the Abbey
Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 20:00:50 +0100
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by: tony sayer - Sat, 13 May 2023 19:00 UTC

In article <1qahj1a.1v9yyqczt848sN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid>,
Liz Tuddenham <liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> scribeth thus
>John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/05/2023 14:44, Mary Wolstenholme wrote:
>> > On Tue, 9 May 2023 09:02:57 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
>> > (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
>> >
>> >> I think that was during the 1937 coronation. It occurred a few minutes
>> >> before the OB was due to go live and I think it was caused by a loose
>> >> valveholder connection in the synch pulse generator.
>> >
>> > What was a synch pulse generator used for in 1937 ?
>> >
>> The same as it was until digital arrived. The system in use for the 1937
>> coronation was the Marconi-EMI 405 line system, the Baird 240 line
>> system having been discontinued in February of that year.
>
>The parameters were finally decided upon in Mrs. Blumlein's front room
>over cups of tea. She invited the EMI team, including A.D. Blumlein's
>boss, Isaac Schoenberg, around for Sunday lunch; while they were waiting
>for the meal to be cooked, they thrashed out the final details of the
>405-line television system.
>
>
Begs the question what the spec would have been like if decided down the
boozer;?..
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