THE BEATLES














George Harrison: A Studer A80 (Mark 1), 1 inch 8 track analogue tape machine,


1970s,serial no. 327, tape play hours meter shows 598 hours of use, with reversed sex audio connectors, no transport or audio remote, with CTS Studios sticker and inventory number to rear, built-in Dolby M16 rack fitted with 8 x Cat22 cards and 8 x Cat44 I/O modules, headblock mounting metalwork and shields are for a 2inch machine but 1inch heads and rollers fitted, 58 1/4in (148cm) high, 27 1/2in (70cm) wide, 28 1/4in (72cm) deep
|Provenance:This was used at George Harrison's F.P.S.H.O.T. home studio at Friar Park. The frame on this machine was custom painted for George to match the colour scheme in the studio, which had green leather trim on the board and light green plates to the modules in the desk at the time. Whilst it is impossible to say exactly which recordings this machine was used for, albums recorded there include Living In The Material World, Dark Horse, Thirty Three & A Third, George Harrison, Cloud Nine and Brainwashed. The CTS Studios sticker (Cine-Tele Sound Studios) indicates that George probably bought this machine from this company, founded in 1956 and originally located in London's Bayswater and then, in the early 1970s, in Wembley, adjacent to the Stadium.