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As the standard tape speed for a compact cassette is 1 + 7 ⁄ 8 inches per second (4.762 cm/s) and a C60 cassette records 30 minutes per side, a C60 cassette in theory holds 281 + 1 ⁄ 4 ft (85.73 m) of tape. In practice there is some variation, for example Maxell quote their C60s as being 90 m (300 ft) in length.
Reel-to-reel preceded the development of the compact cassette with tape 0.15 inches (3.8 mm) wide moving at 1 + 7 ⁄ 8 inches per second (4.8 cm/s). By writing the same audio signal across more tape, reel-to-reel systems give much greater fidelity at the cost of much larger tapes.
These spools and their attendant parts are held inside a protective plastic shell which is 4 by 2.5 by 0.5 inches (10.2 cm × 6.35 cm × 1.27 cm) at its largest dimensions. The tape itself is commonly referred to as "eighth-inch" tape, supposedly 1 ⁄ 8 inch (0.125 in; 3.17 mm) wide, but actually slightly larger, at 0.15 inches (3.81 mm). [8]
Typical resolution is 500 mickeys per inch (16 mickeys per mm), but resolutions up to 16,000 mickeys per inch (600 mickeys per mm) are available. Muggeseggele A Muggeseggele is a humorous Alemannic German idiom used in Swabia to designate a nonspecific very small length or amount of something; it refers to a housefly 's scrotum .
2.1 Metres classified by the number of beats per measure. 2.1.1 Duple and quadruple metre. ... In music, metre (British spelling) or meter (American spelling) ...
A time signature (also known as meter signature, [1] metre signature, [2] and measure signature) [3] is an indication in music notation that specifies how many note values of a particular type are contained in each measure . The time signature indicates the meter of a musical movement at the bar level.
A musical scale is a discrete set of pitches used in making or describing music. The most important scale in the Western tradition is the diatonic scale but many others have been used and proposed in various historical eras and parts of the world. Each pitch corresponds to a particular frequency, expressed in hertz (Hz), sometimes referred to ...
The first metrically complete bar within a piece of music is called "bar 1" or "m. 1". When the piece begins with an anacrusis (an incomplete bar at the beginning of a piece of music), "bar 1" or "m. 1" is the following bar. Bars contained within first or second endings are numbered consecutively.