#Cassette Recorder

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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Princess Diana Made Secret Tapes For The Future Bride of Prince William. ❤️

“Cherish my grandchildren. They carry my heart.”

Before her tragic, untimely death in a Paris car crash at 36 years old, Princess Diana thought she might die young and may never be able to meet the future wife of her son, Prince William, according to a friend of the late Princess of Wales.

Though she didn’t know her name then, Diana recorded an audio diary for Princess Catherine, a young girl living in Berkshire.

According to OK!, the friend — who asked to remain anonymous — said Diana got the idea after recording tapes for what would become Andrew Morton’s groundbreaking Diana: Her True Story (1992).

Even after the book was published, Diana continued talking into her little Sony cassette recorder, off and on, from 1992 until she died in 1997.

On the tapes, Diana offers motherly advice and reveals her hopes for the future of William and his respective family.

"As incredible as it seems, she told me she made the tapes for the day if she wouldn’t be around to help guide William.”

Diana asked for the tapes to be played at key points in her son’s future.

“That way, she could continue to be a part of their lives, even after she was gone,” the friend said.

“She thought it was quite clever — and loved the idea of being what she called a nagging mum from beyond the grave. She found it quite amusing.”

“This particular one was for William’s future wife,” the friend said.

“He was about 13 or 14 at the time, just discovering girls. Diana was fascinated by the idea that he’d marry and one day have his children. She was sure he’d be a wonderful husband and warm, caring father—more like her."

The friend said that Diana wanted William and his future wife to avoid divorce. This particular tape lasted about two or three minutes.

“What struck me was her honesty,” the friend said. “She was so sincere. You could hear it in her voice. She spoke straight from her heart.”

“It was so very moving,” the friend continued.

“I remember bits of it quite well, even after all this time. I was surprised she played it for me. And when it was done, we talked about the kind of girl William would marry.

She thought his bride would be beautiful, smart and independent. And, amazingly, she was right. Kate is all that and more.”

The tape shared memories of William’s childhood and Diana’s dreams of always wanting a daughter. Diana seemed to speak directly to Catherine when she said:

“Brace yourself for a one-way chat. We haven’t met, though I want you to know that I certainly wish we had.

I know I’d adore you, and we’d be fast friends. You have to be someone exceptional. If you weren’t, you wouldn’t be my William’s wife.”

She gave marriage advice, specifically surrounding marriage as a future queen, saying:

“For your marriage to survive the public glare and the private pressures of royal life, it will take patience, compromise, understanding, trust, loyalty, and, of course, love,” Diana reportedly said.

“But you both must work at it. Daily. I’m sure you know my failings and those of William’s father. Learn from these mistakes. Build a relationship that endures. You deserve it. And so do your children.”

Diana then shared that her fondest dream for her and William was to have a life filled with love and joy and to raise happy, healthy children free of divorce, which both William and Diana had to endure.

“Family is the most important thing in life,” she said. “Cherish your children for me. They carry my heart. Let them know I love them and will always watch over them.”

The friend said she ended the tapes with a kiss and told William she loved him.

Though the friend wasn’t sure how many tapes Diana made or who was entrusted with making sure the recordings made it to William, the friend is confident that Princess Catherine had heard the tapes.

💙🥹🤍

[fuzzkaizer]

Lexicon Varispeech II

"... I was interested in the earliest digital pitch shifter, something I had thought was an Eventide product for the longest time but upon further research found it to be the Lexicon Varispeech model 26, an 8-bit pitch computer that came out ca. 1972. It was clearly designed for military use and speech therapy with its no-frills controls and design, but it can certainly be appropriated for music and can make some interesting effects. Its little brother is the Varispeech II, the same circuit housed in a cassette recorder with the pitch ratio tied to the capstan speed. The idea is that the user can slow down or speed up the tape like you can with many cassette recorders, but the onboard pitch shifter will compensate for the dropped/raised pitch. I don’t know of any examples of it being used for actual music, but it is a very musical device!"

cred: facebook.com/Peter Eugene Foley

[science70]

Dictaphone 10 mini-cassette recorder, c. 1970.

[nineties-effect]

[dragmebymyhair]

cassette intro amd quality with the whine in the background?? all i could ask for <3

[90s-2000s-barbie]

Lamb Chop Cassette Recorder (1995) 🎤

[fullslack]

Casio EG-5 guitar with built-in cassette player/recorder & speaker (c. 1980s)

[20y2]

[posttexasstressdisorder]

This one. This one right here. One of these was my very first cassette recorder, got it for xmas of '69 or '70. It had a little square corded mic that I would set in front of the speaker of the radio and record my favorite tunes off the AM radio. It was the one I used to record songs from the American Top 40 shows, even had the very first show that aired.

I recorded a ton of stuff, almost wore out the T-handle mechanism. You'd press the red button in and push the T-handle down at the same time. The mic could control the tape mechanism (simple on/off switch) so I'd set the machine up to record and wait by the radio to flip the little switch on the mic when a song I wanted came on.

And it was a totally manual "you flip the damn door open and take the damn tape out yourself" sort of machine. No elegant eject mechanisms here.

This one got retired when I got my Panasonic RQ-413S a few years later...a recorder that was worlds better, sound-quality wise. But this little guy was no slouch...it took a ton of abuse, and served me well. I think I just wore it out.

Like everything else I had, my parents either sold it for two bucks in a garage sale or trashed it, once I went off to college.

[jedivoodoochile]

Man recording a cassette tape at a music festival in Poland, 1980s

[konetska]

[kerosene-saint]

this is my child

[photo ID: two photos of a black glossy vintage compact cassette recorder, the first picture is of a hand holding it and the second picture is of it sitting on top of it's original packaging that says "Compact Cassette Recorder" on it as well as the brand name "Realistic" /. End ID]

[gameraboy2]

The Incredible Hulk (1978), "Bring Me the Head of the Hulk"

[asepticvoid]

Close the World, Open the Next

My IG: https://instagram.com/aseptic_void

[nautslounge]

Realistic Micro 18 Voice Actuated Micro Cassette Recorder 14-1042

[goddess47]

I'm old, sweetie! How about a portable radio? Although maybe a cassette player is more in the spirit of the poll!

*things such as video game systems are not included in this poll

**your own, not a family/shared computer

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