SPAT stands for the Sound Preservation Association of Tasmania. It was founded in 1985 and currently has over 50000 records including some rare Edison cylinders. It displays old camera, electronic equipment, gramophones, and the like.
As at the time of writing, it could be contacted via the above website, via email at soundtas@bigpond.com (not the one in the web page) or by phoning +61 3 6254 1153 or visiting at their address in the Old Bellerive Post Office building, 19 Cambridge Rd, Bellerive, Tasmania, 7018.
 | There are a number of telephones, this one caught my attention as it reminded me of my gradmother's phone in the 40s and 50s in Gympie, turn the handle, talk to the operator and get connected. |
 | Microphones galore. This little collection would have cost a million quid in its day. Even in my time, quality microphones cost big bucks. being half deaf these days, that sort of quality doesn't worry me. |
 | Speaker horns for gramophones were as varied as the designers were. One of the cutest was a sound box where the volume could be controled by opening small doors on the enclosure. Very ingenious! |
 | This is like the first radio I bought in 1959. It cost me 25 quid, about two weeks average earnings in those days. Valves and all that. |
 | There were gramophones and gramophones, this came from a studio, it even looks expensive still! High quality stuff, spot on speed and tracking. |
 | Part of the vast collection of records and cylinders that have been gathered over the years. |
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