First Three MD 21 Birthday Edition Microphones Up for Auction
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| Signed MD 21 |
May 16, 2004
The Sennheiser MD 21, one of the world's longest
serving microphones, turns 50 this year. To celebrate Sennheiser is issuing a
limited birthday edition of just 100 in a light-gray hammer tone design with
the signature of Professor Dr.-Ing. Fritz Sennheiser.
The first three of these, serial numbers 001 to 003, will come with a wooden case and a certificate signed by Professor Dr.-Ing. Fritz
Sennheiser, and will be auctioned online. Proceeds will go to England's
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts to support its valuable work on an
international level in training young sound engineers and artists.
The online auction for the first of the three Sennheiser MD 21 birthday
edition microphones will be held from May 8, 2004, 12:00 Central European
Time until May 18, 2004, 12:00 CET. The second auction (serial number 002)
will be held from May 21, 2004, 12:00 CET until June 1, 2004, 12:00 CET. The
third auction (serial number 003) will be held from June 4, 2004, 12:00 CET
until June 14, 2004, 12:00 CET. The auction is available at
www.sennheiser.com/md21. The minimum bid is €150.
The original MD 21U offered uniform frequency
response and was used for both speech and music broadcasting. Featuring a
rugged, all-metal body, it offered low sensitivity to handling
noise and was highly insensitive to pop and wind noise.
Company founder Professor Dr.-Ing. Fritz Sennheiser's design brief for the
MD 21 was clear and simple: "A dynamic microphone that has an
omni-directional pick-up pattern and a balanced frequency response, combined
with absolute toughness, which will set it apart from all previous
microphones." Based on these specifications, Sennheiser's development
engineers got to work and created a microphone with acoustic
properties that made it ideally suited for both music and voice recording.
For more information, visit their web site at www.sennheiserusa.com. |
