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Looping History

   I'd always thought Pierre Shaeffer had invented looping(at least I 
thought that since I found out about such things) ,and according to this 
history<http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~snyder/em/schaef.html>, he did,only he did 
it by cutting a nonspiral groove into a phono disc  In 1942 while working 
for Radio Televison France. So he would have had access to cutting edge 
technology so to speak.  His engineer/assistant ,Pierre Henry was a 
student 
of Messian. Apparently Shaeffer's work lead directly to the 
Mellotron,arguably the first commercial looping device 
<http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~snyder/em/mc.html#phono> In some circles Les Paul 
has long been given credit for inventing multitracking,I don't know how 
accurate this is ,but he does seem to have introduced it into popular 
music. 
  But:
  "In 1951, RTF provided Schaeffer with a new studio. It included a tape 
recorder. This was an important event as the phonograph had been his tool 
for composition up to that point. One of the recorders had 5 track 
capability. One , known as the Morphophone, had 12 playback heads, which 
allowed for tape echo and a pseudo reverb effect. Two other decks known as 
Phonogenes were designed to play prerecorded loops at different speeds 
(one 
came with a 12 note keyboard!). At this time, while stereo was still in 
developement, Schaeffer had the means of playing up to 5 separate tracks 
with 5 separate speakers.




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