An International Broadcast

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 23, 20 December 1929, Page 4

An International Broadcast

Music of Nine Countries NEW step in international broadcasting was demonstrated recently on Thanksgiving Day in America, when a two-hour musical’ programme ecle@ud trically recorded in nine countries during a period of only two months was earried to listeners throughout the United States. National anthems and folk songs of the countries represented, interpreted by military bands, orchestras and choruses, were heard exactly as they were transcribed at a sound studio in Europe. The electrical recordings which render this broadcast. possible were made in a pertable sound studio which was taken overseas in August, packed in forty-four trunks and special cases. The apparatus is said to have taken six hours to set up and the same time to take down and pack. On one occasion, in order to keep an engagement. | with the Garde Republicaine Band in Paris after the bands of the three guards regiments had played for it in Great the equipment was carried across the Channel in two chiirtered aeroplane liners. ‘