OT.... "Telfunken"

**604man** · April 19th, 2012, 10:16 PM

Historic Telfunken clip..........GC

**cradeldorf** · April 20th, 2012, 01:43 AM

That was cool.

**JoMoCo** · April 20th, 2012, 11:59 AM

Interesting little commercial prop .. did Telefunken ever have a black bottle tube or series .. ?

**sanhanul** · April 22nd, 2012, 08:07 AM

hihihi... very cute.

**LICORNE** · April 22nd, 2012, 12:51 PM

I found this regarding the ever first neumann .

Quote:The Neumann Bottle
The CMV 3 was the first ever mass produced condenser microphone, far superior to the Reisz microphone, and it gained recognition under the nickname of the 'Neumann Bottle'. It wasn't exactly small, measuring approx. 9 cm in diameter and approx. 40 cm in height. Its weight of nearly 3 kg made reporting a very strenuous job.

Telefunken, a subsidiary of AEG and Siemens, took on the marketing rights to Neumann's microphone.

Between 1928 and the end of World War II the Bottle's design remained virtually unchanged, during which time it became firmly established as the standard for studio use and was used extensively in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. At this time there existed already a selection of exchangeable capsule heads with different polar patterns.

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