PIONEER
Edward ("Chick") FOWLER
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| birth | 5 Jan 1902, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, ENGLAND |
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| death | 7 July 1993, Eastbourne, Sussex, ENGLAND |
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| father | ........... FOWLER b. ............... , ENGLAND |
| mother | .................. b. ................, ENGLAND |
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LIFE
recorder (BF / CF; 25cm) (BFR/CFR : 30cm)
joined Gramco on 19 Aug 1924
first resident engineer in Milan (see: Paul Vernon’s “The Engineers”)
From 1943-1946 Manager of Gramofon Türk Limitet Sirketi in Turkey
In March 1954 he was Production Manager
residence in 1932: "Yendo", Langley Road, Slough, Bucks.
Edward "Chick" Fowler, recording engineer and past manager of EMI Studios, Abbey Road, has died at the age of 91. A full obituary will follow next month (in: The Gramophone of Oct 1993, p. 156)
NOTES
- article on Edward Fowler in Audio Biographies. Idle [Yorkshire], Wharfedale Wireless Works, 1961
- A look at the engineers who made history travelling the world recording its music by Paul Vernon (online article)
Originally published in: Vintage Jazz Mart No. 94, 1994. Copyright belongs to the author. Electronic edition by Lars Fredriksson, April 17, 1997
- Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out by Gordon Thompson (Oxford University Press, 2008)
- "Turn-table Talk. Management Changes at E.M.I." (in: The Gramophone of Feb 1956, p. 57) (online GRAMOPHONE ARCHIVE)
- Obituary Edward Fowler (in: The Gramophone of Oct 1993, p. 156) (online GRAMOPHONE ARCHIVE)
- The Objective Basis for the Production of High Quality Transfers from Pre-1925 Sound Recordings by George Brock-Nannestadt (AES Convention:103 (September 1997) Paper Number:4610)
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