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Cassette Tapes

    

HISTORY  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape#:~:text=Philips%20selected%20the%20two%2Dspool,Lou%20Ottens%20in%20Hasselt%2C%20Belgium.

    Whether you call it a tape cassette, cassette tape, or an audio cassette, the compact cassette tape has an impactful history that changed the way we listen and record music forever.  

    The first cassette tape was created by a company called Philips, by a Dutch citizen name Lou Ottens. Ottens was based in a factory in Hasselt, Belgium. The first tape was developed in 1963. The original design of a cassette tape was geared more towards dication machines but eventually, the technology transitioned into being used by more non-professionals to replace stereo 8-track cartridges and reel-to-reel tape recordings. At the Berlin Radio Show, Philips introduced a two-spool cassette tape in Europe on August 30th. This tape wasn't introduced into the United States until November 1964. Along with the business of compact cassettes, Philips continued to create machines that were meant to specifically play and record these cassettes. One of the machine models was called Typ El 2200 and was offered in the United States in November 1964. The cassette business flourished throughout the 1960s and by the end of the '60s, was worth about $150 million.





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ABOUT THE CASSETTE

https://www.britannica.com/technology/cassette

 

  The cassette tape is designed so that it can be conveniently and easily inserted into a recorder to be played instantly. Within the cassette, there are two spools that weave through the plastic film that is magnetically coated. This development eliminated the need to manually weave a portion of tape into a recorder or player. Cassettes can be made in one of two ways. A cassette can either come with content that is already prerecorded or it can come with no content which allows the user to record content on their own. Blank tapes weren't always used for music and could be used for other prerecorded materials like recording television programs and home movies. The size of a cassette tape is normally a maximum of 4 x 2.5 x .5 inches. A cassette tape can contain two different sets of music depending on which side the tape is put into the recorder. The main reason for its popularity came from how easy to use and convenient it was. People enjoyed that music was more accessible and portable because of the new ways to play it through their car radio, stereo, and telephone answering machines. 

The cassette tape downfall came once the rise of CDs and CD players began. CDs and CD players became thinner, smaller, and more portable which increased their popularity. Cassette tapes hit their major downfall in 1993 when CD players reached 5 million annual shipments and cassette players dropped 7% to 3.4 million. By the 2000s, the CD player ultimately replaced the cassette player.

IMPACTS & COMEBACK

    Ultimately, cassette tapes made a major impact on the way we listen to music today. Specifically, the importance of its convenience and portability made it easier and more common to listen to music. They have been branded to have brought a lot of social change and also were influential in uncovering underground artists. There were also many uses that were brought about that didn't involve music such as spreading religious sermons. 

    Today, cassette tapes are not nearly as popular as they were during the 1960s-1990s. However, they are starting to make a comeback and are now seen as "aesthetic" or "vintage". Some artists have refused to record or release music on anything other than a cassette tape. This has sparked a whole genre or group that sticks to just the vintage material of a cassette tape. 

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