It must be THAT Meazzi!

[Didier]

I remember doing a simple repeat echo using an Akai reel to reel recorder in the mid-seventies.

German electronic music star Klaus Schulze did the same with a Revox tape recorder during the seventies. But I guess that the first to use that in Europe was Marino Marini in the fifties.

Didier

[ecca]

First in Europe ? Nah... Listen to Bert Weedon's early efforts, particularly Stranger in Fiction... ( Jim Nugent help !!! )
And ... in fact a million others that used a slapback echo way before that.
The milestone was when there were 3 repeats as opposed to two.
That meant that re-generation was involved.
i.e. the playback head was fead back to the input.

[Didier]

First in Europe ? Nah... Listen to Bert Weedon's early efforts, particularly Stranger in Fiction...

Bert Weedon's "Stranger than fiction" was in 1956, Marino Marini started to use echo before, in 1954 or 1955.

Didier