And thanks to Paquette’s repairs, almost all of them still work. Some of his acquisitions are startling – he has both a microphone used by Adolf Hitler at his Kehlsteinhaus (“Eagle’s Nest”) retreat and another that broadcasted updates from a famed Antarctica expedition. Abbey Road Studios in London is said to have a killer microphone collection, but otherwise, the Bob Paquette Microphone Museum has few rivals.
Photo by Adam Ryan Morris.
High Fidelity
Bob Paquette maintains a private museum of antique microphones in Walker’s Point.
Bob Paquette has collected antique microphones and sound equipment since 1950, and today maintains a private museum tucked inside the Select Sound Service building at First and National streets, part of which is a room containing some 1,400 microphones (seen here) dating back to an 1876 Bell telephone.
