Thames Festival

Target Audience: All ages can atten this event
Festival Funded By: Barclaycard, Maylor of London and Arts Council English, HSBC and British Council.

Thames Festival is held in mid september. Activites take place over the weekend on the River Thames, the riveside walkways, roads, bridges, docks and public open spaces from Westminster Bridges to Tower Bridges and beyond.

Audio Cassette

The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette was invented in 1962 by the Philips company. Although originally for dictation, improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant reel - to - reel tape recording in the most non-professional applications.

Multitrack Recorder

Multitrack recording (also know as multitracking or just tracking for short) is a method of sound recording hat allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources to create a cohesive whole. This is the most common method of recording popular music. In the 2000s, multitracking software for computers became widely used.

Open Reel Tape Recorder

The reel-to-reel format was used in the very earliest tape recorders, including the pioneering German Magentophons of the 1930s. Originally, this format had no name, since all forms of magnetic tape recorders used it. The name arose only with the need to distinguish it from the several kinds of tape cartridges or cassettes which were introduced in the early 1960s. Thus, the term "reel-to-reel" is an example of a retronym.

Sshellac Record Player

Shellac must be handled carefully. In the event of a 78 breaking, the pieces might remain loosely connected by the label and still be playable if the label holds them together, although there is a loud "pop" with each pass over the crack, and breaking of the stylus is likely 78s are brittle, and must be handled carefully. In the event of a 78 breaking, the pieces might remain loosely connected by the label and still be playable if the label holds them together, although there is a loud "pop" with each pass over the crack, and breaking of the stylus is likely.

Emile Berliner - The History of the Gramophone

Early attempts to design a consumer sound or music playing gadget began in 1877 when Thomas Edison invented his tin-foil phonograph. The word "phonograph" was Edison's trade name for his device, which played recorded sounds from round cylinders. The sound quality on the phonograph was bad and each recording lasted for one only play. Edison's phonograph was followed by Alexander Graham Bell’s graphophone. The graphophone used wax cylinders which could be played many times, however, each cylinder had to be recorded separately making the mass reproduction of the same music or sounds impossible with the graphophone.