Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Designating sound recording, playback equipment, or sound recordings that use magnetic tape which must be threaded through the equipment and onto an empty reel.
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- noun A
machine thatrecords sound onto, or plays sound from,tape wound on one reel, by feeding it through to another reel.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Meanwhile, in the Eastern Bloc, the introduction of reel-to-reel tape recorders in the 1960s helped create a vast underground culture of fans of rock, rhythm and blues, and later disco and hip-hop.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Or, as one of authors said when discussing the Google news, “I just don't want to end up like Burt Reynolds in Boogie Nights ... refusing to jump on the newfangled video bandwagon and sticking with reel-to-reel film.”
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Fortunately my workplace had a vintage, mostly unused reel-to-reel tape recorder.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011
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You own every recording she ever made -- 78s, LPs, remastered CDs, even reel-to-reel tapes recorded off of radio broadcasts.
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Fortunately my workplace had a vintage, mostly unused reel-to-reel tape recorder.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011
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So, I just saved up all my money from waiting tables and got an old reel-to-reel four-track to set up in the living room of the apartment that I was living in.
Mike Ragogna: The Goat Rodeo and Lindi Ortega Video Exclusives, Plus Chatting With Yo-Yo Ma and Mason Jennings Mike Ragogna 2011
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There, stiff and rumpled from being in storage so long, was a leather jacket with a rainbow colored flower motif, some old boots, dozens of melted records, burned-out speakers, charred beads, monopoly pieces, soot-covered reel-to-reel tapes, pieces of a porcelain toilet and beer cans - lots of beer cans ...
Boing Boing 2009
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True Womanhood: "Minajah" On the latest offering from its Reel Too Real project, recorded on reel-to-reel tape, the D.C.-based outfit tries its hand at an analog moombahton track.
Singles File for the Week of Jan. 25 Post 2011
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An illustration of a reel-to-reel tape machine graces the cover of "Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World," the first biography of the renegade folklorist who, says John Szwed, "changed not only how everyone listened to music but even how they viewed America."
The Catcher of Songs Eddie Dean 2011
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On the latest offering from its Reel Too Real project, recorded on reel-to-reel tape, the D.C.-based outfit tries its hand at an analog moombahton track.
Singles file: Lady Gaga, Big K.R.I.T., Tyler Jon Tyler Allison Stewart 2011
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