1939 AEG Magnetophon FT4 tape recorder playing Deutsches Tanz und Unterhaltungsorchester

[onenhero]

very impressive, it's sound quality is very excellent! also, its very massive. its crazy to think that back in the day they needed such a large device to play sound and now you can put thousands of songs in your cellphone, a size of a cigarret pack! all happened in about 60 years!

[lesleypaul59]

...top-video !!! 'love this ! thank you ! and this comment !!! LES from berlin/germany

[static1994]

and one day this becomes state-of-the-art.

[paranormaalutrecht]

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauw

[TheMrmagnetophon]

What are the pipe's connected to the reel motors? was that for cooling or breaking?

[videogamehistorian]

@TheMrmagnetophon This is for air cooling. This was also used with almost every machine made around that time. Even the 1948 re-edition of the R22 still had the main cooling fan, but not the pipes.

[TheMrmagnetophon]

@videogamehistorian Thank you for the information, could you possibly help me with a project, i am looking for schematic's for the magnetophon machines, do you have any?

Thank you for your help.

-Chris

[wastl700]

Thanx for UL.. Greetings from?? : Germany!

[Bootsandgloves68]

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and presenting this jewel of sound engineering.

[BOHEMIANMEX]

PURE HISTORY, TKS FOR SHARE!

[Ste1Ku]

Hallo !

Toll das dieses Gerät noch in arbeitsfähigen Zustand ist !

Die Tonköpfe liegen nach alter Norm noch aussen. Heutzutage auf der Innenseite des Bandes.

Ich vermute mal, daß es sich um Vollspurgerät und nicht um Halbspur handelt.

Viele Grüße aus Köln, Stephan

Ps. Die angesprochen 3 doppel-CDs stehen bei mir im Schrank.

[preludefan]

beautiful, id love to own one of these!

[ViktorDragmire]

This is great! perfect period music, its screaming 1940s. I'm glad you decided to play this and not some more modern music on it, it just sounds out of place to be hearing Queen (as awesome as they are), being played on a tape recorder from 1939...Great music!

[toastyplatters70]

Astounding. Thank you for sharing!

[Seblington]

What a nice machine, one day I hope to put one in the collection with my other pre 50's machinesI belive this came out the same time as my Tonschreiber which was a multi speed machine, (9cm - 120 cm/sec), unusual that all the speeds it indicate do not follow the modern speed layout, and the tape was slightly wider than the 1/4 inch too.

[legOldtimer]

Absolute priceless museum piece of equipment, and that in working order !

Thanks for posting.

[TheMrmagnetophon]

I thought the tonschreibers were used for speeches?

[videogamehistorian]

@TheMrmagnetophon Yes, but I have no original tape recorded at 25cm/s. So I recorded one using German danceband music originally recorded on tape (at 77.2 cm/s).

[TheMrmagnetophon]

@videogamehistorian thank you, i hope one day i can get my hands on one of these machines or something similiar :-)

[Ronald070]

Very, very interesting to see and hear a original Magnetophon! The title of the piece played is 'Wir machen Musik' ("We make music'), a great example of the quality of the DTUO.

[CassetteMaster]

Incredible!! 1939 tape recorder!!!--OPERATING!!!!!! Do you think you could do a video demonstrating recording speech and/or music and playing back? (I'd like to hear it record in the present day, I wonder how it would sound on speech or modern music)

[ToastmachineIdiot]

Wow! That is a wonderful machine!

[lemonlimestiv]

beautiful!!!!!!