Continue reading “Build Your Own Tape Recorder/Player ... the tape head pressed against the plastic case too tightly to allow feeding 70-year-old tape through the device.

With tape that worked, [Hans] set about improving his recorder with a tape transport mechanism built from a turntable and a new recording head. This time, his tape recorder worked.

TAPE recorders cost money. As recreational devices, they have found market, so far, among bird-song enthusiasts, sound maniacs, and cocktail-party gagsters. Now, however, that canny character, the ...

A diagram of a magnetic tape recorder showing the mechanical parts. University of California Santa Cruz Electronic Music Studio. In the diagram above, we can see the basic parts of a tape recorder.