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Thanks Jim, that sounds promising!
Many thanks,
Lowri
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Subject: Re: Audio equipment for displaying oral histories
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To Lowri:
Many thanks for your message. When I worked at the Thackray Museum in Leeds (which I'm sure you'll know!), I used the services of Pollen Studio, based in Bishop Wilton, Yorkshire. I realise that the company
is not exactly 'round the corner' from you, but it really is a brilliant outfit. My contacts there were Dick Sefton and his son Tom (such a pity that there was no 'Harry' to make it complete - maybe there is now!). You can visit the website at:
http://www.pollenstudio.co.uk/
Pollen Studio lent the Museum a 'listening stand' at a very reasonable cost, if memory serves,to play audio and video clips for the exhibition I curated in 2010 about William Astbury, which was part of the
Local Heroes Project marking the 350th Anniversary of the Royal Society. Dick and Tom were absolutely brilliant; all I had to do was to give them the sound and video clips, together with accompanying captions and they put it all together for me.
I was also able to visit the Studio to check the finished result, when Dick and Tom were quite happy to make any necessary 'tweaks' that were needed.
As a keen punk rock fan, I was furthermore not un-naturally mightily impressed that one of the records produced by
Stiff Little Fingers was recorded at Pollen Studio in the 1970s! Apparently the band drank the adjacent pub dry while they were there, but nevertheless the village of Bishop Wilton survived! I think Dick also did some work with the Beatles...
Hope this helps!
With kind regards and best wishes
Jim Garretts.
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Dear all,
We’re currently planning for our next exhibition,
“this vexed question”: 500 years of women in medicine
(19th Sept 2018 – 12th Jan 2019)
and are trying to find audio equipment that will work for displaying our oral histories. We have listening stands in our current exhibition but they only have the ability to play one clip, whereas for the next one we want to give visitors the option of
selecting between different clips, ideally also with the accompanying video for each one. Does anyone have equipment that can do this that they are not currently using, and that they may be able to lend to us (for a fee) for the extent of the exhibition? Happy
to discuss off-list
Many thanks,
Lowri
Lowri Jones | Collections Officer
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