07/07/2026
Over the years we've collected some serious pieces of gear - this is EMI's *Green Machine*
The “Green Machine” tape machines are the stuff of legend. The British Tape Recorder was developed by ex-RAF mechanics working for EMI immediately after World War II, which is probably why they look more like the inside of a fighter plane than your average piece of studio equipment.
Despite their patriotic nomenclature, the BTRs were actually reverse engineered from capture German-made Magnetophon tape machines, whose playback quality was so vastly superior to anything the Allies were capable of during the war that it confounded attempts to track the Fuhrer because he could appear to be broadcasting live speeches from any city in the Reich at any given moment.
One of the many heritage pieces in our collection 🛩️🔊🇬🇧
