Re: headset

["Ronald W. Garrison" <rwgarr@intrex.net>]

Misho Imblum wrote:
> 
> Chris Williams wrote:
> >
> >    She did! In the "Kate Bush On Tour" TV film, Kate talks about how
> > she wanted "...something like a telephonist's headset". Her
> soundman,
> > a Scottish fellow, built it out of a coat hanger and a small
> tie-tack
> > type microphone. It looks like a Sony ECM-50. It definitly was not
> > off the shelf. I was doing sound at the time, and I believe she was
> > the very first person to use one. I consider Kate the inventor of
> the
> > performance headset microphone.
> >
> 
> I was also working sound when I first saw Kate and her headset.  I
> believe it is pretty much commonly accepted by now that, while Kate
> herself was not the inventor of the headset mic as we know it, she was
> the instigator, and the engineers working with her at the time are
> responsible for its start.  I do hope they are being compensated in
> some
> way, through patents or whatever.
> 
> Misho

--Perhaps a legend is being born: Do you suppose this will soon rank up
there with Hedy Lamarr "inventing" spread-spectrum communication?

--Ron

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