This tape is from the World Tape Club collection including its catalogue number all are 7 1/2 IPS
A division of the Australian arm of World Record Club, operating from February 1967, which issued reel-to-reel tapes. The World Record Club Ltd. was the name of a company in the United Kingdom which issued long-playing records and reel-to-reel tapes, mainly of classical music and jazz, through a membership mail-order system during the 1950s and 1960s.
In addition to titles imported from recording companies like Everest Records and Westminster Records, which it obtained on franchise, it made a series of recordings of international artists using its own engineers. Although often of great musical interest and very acceptable technical quality, these recordings do not appear in shop catalogues of the time as they were not available new through record shops. Many of these tapes were duplicated direct from master tapes instead of vinyl production tapes as was common at the time. These WTC tapes are now becoming collector items and sought after at a premium price. Some titles were only distributed in Australia.
The label was taken over by EMI in 1965 but continued to be used as a sub-label for mail order, covering a wide range of musical genres, and distributing in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Reels were always offered in two speeds - 3¾ and 7½ inches per second. The packaging was identical, with small stickers on the box and reel to denote the version. The 3¾ version typically had the smaller 5" reel, and a cardboard insert would be used to fit it into the box snugly.
Plastic boxes were replaced by hinged black cardboard boxes some time in 1973 (after a brief period using rather unsatisfactory white cardboard boxes with no separate lid). From this point, numbers on the spine were blacked out manually to distinguish which speed the reel was.
After repeatedly noting a low demand from 1976 (by which point, the club was the only source Australian-made open reels), reel-to-reel tapes were last offered by the club in 1977. As with other divisions of the club, its separate identity was diminished, with releases labelled more as "World Record Club" than "World Tape Club", and the club effectively ceased to exist. The last known new release was ST 03027 (Two Pianos in Hollywood) in February 1977, and the last reissue was ST 00455 (Magical Mystery Tour) in August 1977.
This is a reel-to-reel tape from a recently purchased lot of 53 WTC (World tape club - run and owned by EMI) titles, All tapes are unmolested from how I purchased them, they have not been tested, played with in any way and are sold on the basis that if you receive a defective purchase I will refund less postage within 7 days from purchase.
I will combine shipping and if you purchase 3 or more tapes I will post for free. Just pay for the total of your shopping cart and I will refund postage.
Resurgence in interest in collecting Reel To Reel tapes
Why Reel to reel, other formats such as cassette and vinyl have been popular over the years as against digital versions of classic recordings originally mastered on tape in the 50's 60's 70's and 80's. Most reel to reel music tapes have been made from direct descendants of the studio master tapes, no or little post processing at all so in general offer better dynamics, bass response, channel separation no compression or EQ and offer great listening pleasure.
Most commercial formats are either on 5" or 7" tape reels the 5" reels always recorded at the lower tape speed of 3 3/4ips, most 7" reels recorded at 7 1/2 ips twice the speed and the fastest of all of the different tape media (cassette, 8-track). Most 3 3/4ips tape have an upper frequency limit of 10khz and the 7 1/2ips extend to 15khz equal or better than most pickup cartridges and preamps. Best of all little hum, crackle and disk noise.
All of the tapes listed here are 7" and a tape speed of 7 1/2 ips.
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