{"id":1338,"date":"2013-07-22T15:08:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T15:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2013-07-22T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T15:09:08","slug":"norman-taylors-emitron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/2013\/07\/norman-taylors-emitron\/","title":{"rendered":"Norman Taylor’s Emitron"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somehow these pictures got left in a temp folder for two years, for which I have to apologise to Simon Vaughan of the Alexandra Palace Television Society who sent them to me in July 2011.<\/p>\n

The Emitron\u00a0belonged to the late Norman Taylor and was given, along with other memorabilia, to the APTS by his wife.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n

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Simon also sent this 78 record made at Christmas 1959 by Crew 9 , and kept by Norman till his death. I’ve put in an inverted picture of the faces so you don’t have to hang upside down over your computer….<\/p>\n

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Simon played the record, and the result is here –<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas 1959 – from Crew Nine<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve fiddled around with my free educational copy of Adobe Audition CS6 (no clouds for me!) and come up with this slightly fixed version. If a proper sound person fancies having a go at making a better version, I’ll be very happy to replace mine. The player has a download button on the right.<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas 1959 – from Crew Nine_fix<\/a><\/p>\n

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Somehow these pictures got left in a temp folder for two years, for which I have to apologise to Simon Vaughan of the Alexandra Palace Television Society who sent them to me in July 2011. The Emitron\u00a0belonged to the late … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pics","category-stories"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Bernard Newnham","author_link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/author\/bern333\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Pictures<\/a>","Stories<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Pictures<\/span>","Stories<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 13 years ago","modified":"Updated 13 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 22, 2013","modified":"Updated on July 22, 2013"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 22, 2013 3:08 pm","modified":"Updated on July 22, 2013 3:09 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}