Bernard Cousino

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Bernard August Cousino (born August 1, 1902 in Toledo ( Ohio ), † December 29, 1994 in Lee ( Florida )) was an American sound engineer and inventor in the field of sound engineering .

Life

In the 1950s, Cousino ran his electronics company, Cousinos Electronic Workshop, in Toledo. In 1952, George Eash rented a desk in this office in order to work from there for an advertising agency.

Cousino was on the board of the Magnetic Recording Industry Association (MRIA). He was the inventor of the endless cassette , which dominated the North American market for tape for some time .

In 1952, he became famous for his technical invention, Audio Vendor, which was based on an endless loop of tape .

Another patented invention was the graphite-coated tape on the back , which made it possible to pull it out of the endless reel without wrinkling.

Cousino was married and had a son.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cousino on deathfigures.com
  2. ↑ Cousino on ancestry.com, available at [1]
  3. ^ High Fidelity / Musical America . Billboard Pub., 1973, p. 51 ( google.de [accessed on May 8, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Jay Ehler: Earl Muntz Meets George Eash Billboard Volume 84, No. 47, November 18, 1972, pp. 62, 76, 78
  5. ↑ Barry Kernfeld: Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929 , The University of Chicago Press 2011 ISBN 978-0-226-43183-3
  6. ↑ MRIA Geared for Membership Drive . In: Nielsen Business Media Inc (Ed.): Billboard . tape 75 , no. 23 . Nielsen Business Media, Inc., June 8, 1963, p. 36 ( google.de [accessed on May 8, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Cousino Cartridge Leads Tape Race . In: Nielsen Business Media Inc (Ed.): Billboard . Nielsen Business Media, Inc., February 25, 1956, p. 24 ( google.de [accessed on May 8, 2018]).
  8. ^ David Morton: Sound recording. The life story of a technology . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md 2006, ISBN 0-8018-8398-9 , pp. 157 ( books.google.de ).
  9. ↑ Barry Kernfeld: Pop song piracy. Disobedient music distribution since 1929 . University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London 2011, ISBN 978-0-226-43184-0 , pp. 151 ( books.google.de ).
  10. ↑ . In: Billboard . tape 83 . Billboard Publications, Jan 1971, pp. 134 ( google.de [accessed on May 8, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Magnetic sound recording tapes . April 2, 1963 ( google.com [accessed May 2, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Frictionless Tape Ready . In: Nielsen Business Media Inc (Ed.): Billboard . No. 28 . Nielsen Business Media, Inc., April 20, 1963, p. 50 ( google.de [accessed on May 2, 2018]).
  13. ^ Toledo Lucas County public library in the Internet Archive
personal data
SURNAME Cousino, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cousino, Bernard August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sound engineer and inventor in the field of sound engineering
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Toledo
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1994
Place of death lee