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John Noll  <jn145_deletethisfirst_@verizon.net> wrote:
>Richard Crowley wrote:
>> 
>> "John Noll" <jn145_deletethisfirst_@verizon.net> wrote in message 
>> news:41E20521.905@verizon.net...
>> 
>>> orange wrote:
>>>
>>>> anybody know what that mic was that Gene Rayburn used on "The Match 
>>>> Game"?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Greg
>>>> orange@the-spa.com
>>>
>>> Sony ECM-51
>> 
>> Gene Rayburn would be proud.
>
>Believe it or not there are some people out there who 
>are very infatuated with this TV show and will pay top 
>dollar for one of these mics.
I have not watched any TV game shows in many years, but what I have seen
mostly used the various Shure handheld omnis as presenters' microphones.
Sadly, most of those mikes went away when Shure cleaned their catalogue
out a decade ago.  
Occasionally some of the American mikes turned up.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra.  C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."