Interview with Ken and Paul Hamann, October 25, 1996
Project: Chasing Sound Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Interview with Ken and Paul Hamann of Suma Recording Studios.The interview begins with Susan and Ken discussing his early career in rock music, specifically covering topics such as his equipment and his techniques, as well as where (and when) he realized that he needed each.
About halfway through the interview Paul Hamann, Ken's son, enters the interview and the three begin discussing both technique and equipment, and Paul is able to provide specific examples using records and singles present in the studio.
They are not able to wrap up the interview, as the tape reaches its end.
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Paul Hamann
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Rock music Guitar Electric guitar Cleveland (Ohio) Sound--Recording and reproducingInterview Rights
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Hamann, Ken Interview by Susan Schmidt Horning. 25 Oct. 1996. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Hamann, K. (1996, October 25). Interview by S. S. Horning. Chasing Sound Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Hamann, Ken, interview by Susan Schmidt Horning. October 25, 1996, Chasing Sound Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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