Room 13 in 1958. Daphne Oram plays the Mijwiz, an Arabic twin-reeded double shepherd's pipe, as 'Dickie' Bird operates one of the big Motosacoche recorders. The unit in the centre is a 'linking console', used to control levels when editing and copying tapes. The STC 4038 ribbon microphone, earlier known as the PGS, was first introduced in 1954.