Glossary
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Glossary
- A. H.: Delia's code name for one of her pieces; the full name is unknown so far. See DD161302
- A. S. & I.: Delia's code name for her music Arabic Science and Industry
- B & K: The Brüel and Kjaer Wobbulator
- BG: Background
- b/g: Background
- BH: Brian Hodgson or Broadcasting House, the BBC's main building
- Binson: Binson were a manufacturer of amplifiers and echo effects units.
- BTR/2: An EMI tape recorder used at the BBC from 1953, high quality (50-15000Hz), running at 15 or 7.5 ips[1]
- CP: Delia's code name for her piece Closed Planet
- c.p.s.: Cycles Per Second, which is now called Hertz.
- D.L.; Delia's code for David Lyttler[2]
- EM: Delia's code name for her music Early Morning
- E.T.: refers to the 'Equally Tempered' musical scale DD074508
- F. Y. in T.: Delia's code name for the programme Francis Younghusband in Tibet
- i.p.s.: inches per second
- J.B.: Delia's code for John Baker
- J.P.: Delia's code for John Parry[2]
- Just: refers to the 'Just' tempered musical scale DD074508
- Mean tone: refers to the 'Mean Tone' tempered musical scale DD074508
- MOTO: Delia's abbreviation for Motosacoche
- Motosacoche: A huge pair of synchronised tape recorders modified by the BBC to run at half speed of 15ips.
- m/u: makeup. A makeup is a tape of individual sounds used to create a piece.
- Muirhead: A Muirhead 783-A[3] square wave shaper[4]
- Muirhead-Wigan: A Muirhead-Wigan D695A[3] high stability decade sine wave generator[4]
- N.U.: Maybe "Not Used"? See DD083321, DD090137
- OB: Outside Broadcast: a television or radio recording session held somewhere other than in a BBC studio.
- O.T.: Delia's code name for her music to Oliver Twist[2]
- P.A.: Public Address system: the amplifier and speakers used at an event for the benefit of the audience.
- p/b: Playback? See DD094630
- PEU: Portable Effects Unit, removing low or high frequencies, or both
- Pythag: refers to the Pythagorean tempered musical scale. See DD074508.
- RCU: Response Control Unit[3]
- Reflectograph 500: a semiprofessional mono tape recorder with variable speed from 3.75 to 7.5ips[1]
- RGD: A 15 and 30 i.p.s. mono tape recorder.
- RNR: Delia's code name for her music Radio Newsreel
- R.W.: Delia's code for Richard Wortley[2]
- S & H: Delia's code name for her music Science and Health
- TD/7: Transcription Disc players, used to play the oversize records used by the BBC for internal distribution of works before they started using tape.[1]
- TR90: An EMI tape recorder that replaced the BTR/2.[1]
- TRW: BBC programme codes. See Category:TRW
- Vortexion: Vortexion were a British manufacturer of high quality p.a. systems, mixers and later tape recorders, see Vortexion at ferrographworld.com
