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COLES RIBBON MICROPHONES CELEBRATES 40TH ANNIVERSARY

40 Years Later The Best Ribbon Mic is Better Than Ever!

PORTLAND, ME - October 7, 2004. Independent Audio, U.S. distributor for Coles Electroacoustics Ribbon Microphones, announced that the 40th anniversary of Coles Electroacoustics is being celebrated in Hoddesdon, England, this year. Colin Beanland, who started the company, said, “It’s been a great run for 40 years. Manufacturing the BBC-designed Coles 4038 studio ribbon microphones and Coles 4104b commentator’s lip mics has been a very important and satisfying component of our business. Particularly fulfilling to me, however, has been designing our new Coles 4040 Ribbon Mic which has received critical acclaim from the both the reviewers and our customers. Our hope is that it will become as popular as the 4038 studio ribbon mic.” I am semi-retired now, and my son, Steven, is running the factory, and doing a fine job of it.”

Steve Beanland commented, “We were established in 1964 as a tool making and general engineering company. Events led us into the manufacture of high quality microphones. It’s rewarding to know that we have sold thousands of Coles 4038 and 4104b mics into the broadcast world and studios in the United States and around the world in the past four decades. For more information on the Coles product range, please contact:

Fraser Jones
Independent Audio, Inc.
Tel: 207-773-2424
Email: info@independentaudio.com
www:independentaudio.com