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This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. --------------- To Leah: Many thanks for your message. When I worked at the Thackray Museum in Leeds, I used the services of Pollen Studio, based in Bishop Wilton, Yorkshire, which isn't too far away from you in a car. They really are experts in all things both audio and video and may even be able to lend / hire you some equipment, if that suits your purposes better. 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. I'm no longer in 'the museum business', but am still happy to help curatorial colleagues out if at all possible. Best of luck! With kind regards Jim Garretts. On 13 June 2018 at 12:11, Leah Mellors <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, > your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the > author of this message. ------------------------------- > > Dear all > > > We have a couple of poems written by local schoolchildren in response to > some of our objects, which I'd like to be able to record and play in the > galleries at our Prison & Police Museum. I'm looking for a simple, > inexpensive way of doing this and wondered if anyone could advise on a > push-button system of playing audio. I have a vague memory of someone once > telling me about "tin cans" for playing audio, but I might have dreamt that > as I can't find a mention online! > > > Very grateful for any advice or help > > > Many thanks > > > Leah > > > Leah Mellors > Curator, Ripon Museum Trust > > > The Workhouse Museum > Sharow View > Allhallowgate > Ripon > North Yorkshire > HG41LE > > > > The SHCG list is provided for members of Social History Curators Group to > discuss subjects relevant to social history in museums. To join SHCG visit > www.shcg.org.uk . Opinions expressed in this email are the responsibility > of the author and are not necessarily shared by SHCG. To leave the list do > not reply to this message but send an email to [log in to unmask] > with a blank subject line and these words as the body of the email: SIGNOFF > SHCG-LIST The SHCG list is provided for members of Social History Curators Group to discuss subjects relevant to social history in museums. To join SHCG visit www.shcg.org.uk . Opinions expressed in this email are the responsibility of the author and are not necessarily shared by SHCG. To leave the list do not reply to this message but send an email to [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and these words as the body of the email: SIGNOFF SHCG-LIST