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Klipsch Tape Reissues
Jazz Music Klipsch Tape Music by Weldon Flanagan-Wurlitzer, John Eargle, the Joe Holland Quartet, and Flem Ferguson and his Dixieland Jazz In the 1950's, Paul W. Klipsch, inventor of the famous "Klipschorn" corner bass horn loudspeaker, began recording live performances in stereo as "reference" recordings to aid his own loudspeaker research and development. The 1950s saw enormous activity and expansion in the Hi-Fi world which was spearheaded by the emergence of stereo recordings for public consumption, and during the latter half of the decade, the first stereophonic reel-to-reel tapes became available, produced by recording companies such as RCA, Mercury, Westminster, and others. The tapes proved to be so popular that in 1956, Paul Klipsch would jump on the reel-to-reel bandwagon by founding the Klipsch Tapes Division. Headed by the redoubtable Mr. Klipsch and assisted by future recording engineer John Eargle, KLIPSCHTAPE produced a total of seven titles, and marked one of the first attempts by an equipment manufacturer to make direct tape masters available to audio enthusiasts. Klipsch's tapes were among the earliest stereo recordings ever offered to the public, and survive today as a prime example of primitive but exemplary "purist" recording art. Unfortunately, Klipsch's tape enterprise lasted only about two years and is today a virtually unknown and forgotten fragment of audio history. However, thanks to the kindness of the present-day Klipsch company, which has made the original master tapes available to us, we have been able to carefully transfer and preserve some of Klipsch's amazing recordings to CD.
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