King's Speech Recorded

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 26, 9 January 1931, Page 17

King's Speech Recorded

Remarkable Feat. EVEN hours after making his recent broadcast speech at the opening of the Round ‘Table Conference on India, the King heard a gramophone record of it at Buckingham Palace. Later the same record was broadcast as a surprise item:by the British Broadcasting Corporation. These.two events were made possible as the result,of a remarkable scientific feat at the Gramophone Company’s factory at Hayes, Middlesex. In a small eegrtyard at the House of Lords. the pany placed its mobile recording hinery, from which cables led. to six microphones in the Royal Gallery. A man stood in the van of a recording instrument on which a wax disc was revolving. At the moment that he heard the King’s voice through a loud speaker in the van the man placed the recording needle on the wax. When the. speech was finished the dise was wrapped in blankets and. hurried to the factory at-Hayes. Here a record was made from it.in 84 hours. Hitherto the making of a record from the wax has taken 60 hours.