Open Reel Ensemble doesn't play conventional instruments, like guitars, drums and keyboards. Instead, the Japanese band uses reel-to-reel tape recorders built by Pioneer and TEAC in the 1970s and '80s ...

Alice Cooper has hooked up with Revox to launch his own branded reel-to-reel tape recorder. You probably thought reel-to-reel machines went out around the same time as the wax cylinder, didn’t you?

In the early 1960s, technology companies like Phillips began experimenting with condensing reel-to-reel tape players and recorders into something that could be carried around and used by a layperson.

The process of using a TAPE RECORDER for the storage of sound on MAGNETIC TAPE, or the information stored by this process. See also: EMULSION, ORAL HISTORY, MUSIQUE CONCRETE, STEREOPHONIC, TAPE MUSIC, ...

Earlier this year, Apple officially discontinued Music Memos, an iPhone app that allowed musicians to quickly record audio and develop new song ideas. Now, a new startup called Tape It is stepping in ...