Seriously, I want this. It looks fairly modern so I think I can hook it up to some pretty state-of-the-art pirate radio equipment and go to town on Obama. You think I'm joking? I am not joking.
Posted on 09/03/2009 7:34:50 PM PDT by blueglass
The microphone wartime traitor Lord Haw Haw used to broadcast Nazi propaganda into British homes has been discovered after 64 years.
A pile of scripts the infamous broadcaster - real name William Joyce - wrote and read out over the airwaves with his famous 'Germany calling' catchphrase have also come to light.
The items, including copied British newspaper articles, were seized by soldier Cyril Millwood when the Allies invaded Germany in 1945 and are now set to be sold at auction.The conservative pre-sale estimate for the items is up to £4,000 and they will be sold at Bosleys auctions in Marlow, Bucks, on September 2. Mr Bosley said: 'It's very difficult to put a price on these things because they are unique and of such historic importance.'
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Seriously, I want this. It looks fairly modern so I think I can hook it up to some pretty state-of-the-art pirate radio equipment and go to town on Obama. You think I'm joking? I am not joking.
got to hand it to the Germans. That is a nice looking mic for 1940
8000 pounds is not too bad either, for a starting estimate. Wish I had it
suitable gift for obammas white house press secretary
Maybe Robert Gibbs will put in a bid, haw, haw.
Just to keep the record straight.
Telefunken, would be my guess.
BHO should buy it. Would look nice alongside TOTUS.
Yeah, I wonder what harmonica would sound like played through it.
Good call. It’s either a Telefunken or a Neumann M7:
http://www.telefunken-elektroakustik.com/products/show_product.php?item=17&cat=mics
Sounds like the design was Telefunken’s and they shopped out the capsule manufacturing to Neumann at some point.
Either way, it’s a desirable vintage mic even without the historical value.
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This looks to be a cousin of the mic used by herr Hitler.
Telefunken (wunder). A close cousin of these are still being remanufactured today. Highly technical, precise tools. Most sell for several thousand dollars. Studio quality.
Interesting precedent of law that could have current application in regards to the POTUS (Hussein).
Yeah, in fact I think they’ve reissued that very capsule. My feeling is that the vintage mics are somewhat overrated in terms of pure sound quality. But I think there is something inspirational about stepping up to a great old mic that might result in a better performance. You’re right about them being technical, precise tools. It’s no wonder some of the best mics were German.
Glad I did my homework on this one. One of the most jealously guarded pieces of information is on the international travels of the President. Possibly and I am trying to be fair, we might learn more about the President, if the information was available.
I have to be careful coming from left field in Canada, but it could well be that the President has a pretty mixed background. The framers of the Constitution feared this kind of thing- I believe.
Too bad there isn’t some way to get this microphone to the White House in time for The One to use for his address to “Our Cheeldrun” next week...
A friend of mine has a 1928 Western Electric mic, used in the studios of Columbia Records. It’s phenomenal.
The weakest links in the audio-equipment chain have always been in the home. Plenty of tracks from the earliest days of talking pictures—the discs or optical soundtracks from which the final soundtracks were mixed—would blow any modern listener away.
“On that fact, they hanged him. This was in 1939 and he fled to Germany.”
Well, no one could call him a quitter!
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