reel-to-reel tape
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of reel-to-reel tape
First recorded in 1975–80
Example Sentences
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For 45 years, Peter Gordon has held onto a reel-to-reel tape of a show he performed in 1979 at the Mudd Club in New York City with a trio called the Blue Horn File.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
He kept in touch by sending Ruth reel-to-reel tape recordings, which Ndinda still treasures today.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2023
Dictating his life story into a reel-to-reel tape recorder, the now-aged Mann details life with Elder John, his romance with a consumptive patient and a decision he will make that irreversibly alters the local landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
Investigators who revived the case last year dug through case boxes, turned up references to Smith, and found the old reel-to-reel tape of him talking to investigators in 1973.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022
He had two mismatched turntables plus a rickety old reel-to-reel tape player and shelves packed with records he’d collected over many years.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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