Rowe Customusic

Rowe Customusic is a background music system[1] from the 1960s and 1970s. Up to six Fidelipac type C endless-loop magnetic tape cartridges can be loaded in the player, allowing up to 60 hours of playback.[2] The case is 13+5⁄8 in (350 mm) wide, 11+1⁄8 in (280 mm) high, and 13+3⁄4 in (350 mm) deep.[3] Like the 3M Cantata 700, the player moves the tape head between cartridges and, as in other Fidelipac players, between the four tracks on a cartridge. The current cartridge number is indicated on a seven-segment display. Automatic track advancement was triggered by a conductive tape strip on the splice of the tape loop, or manually by pressing a button. Another switch located next to the power switch disables cartridge changeover, replaying only the current cartridge.[4]

References

  1. ^ Ad, Billboard vol. 76, no. 20, 16 May 1964, pp.47-48
  2. ^ Ad, Billboard vol. 76, no. 20, 16 May 1964, pp.47-48
  3. ^ Tailored Background Music Can Lead Small Phono Op Into Uncharted Fields, Billboard vol. 74, no. 32, 11 August 1962, p.59
  4. ^ bigdmc1: Rowe muzak player, YouTube 13 May 2010

External links

  • bigdmc1: Rowe muzak player, YouTube 13 May 2010
  • (German) AMI - Rowe/AMI Musikboxen und Fernwähler im Archiv von Jukebox-World – Background Music System HA 600 & HA 900 (1960), retrieved 7 December 2016
  • ROWE/AMI Background Music Systems 1959–1976 at the Jukebox-World
  • ROWE/AMI Background Music Systems HA600, HA900, CPC-60-1, CPC-75 , CPC-10-1 from 1960 till 1976 in the Jukebox-World at Archive.is
  • Pictures, ©2014 Customusic, a division of MKW Associates, Inc.