☆Vintage 1960s BBC Minimicro 70 Microphone - BBC Microphone - Made in Italy Shure

For sale is the Minimicro 70 made by an Italian company called BBC Elettroacustica Professionale. This microphone features a nice looking logo, robust shock mounted body, and it sounds quite nice! I like this microphone's design a lot because of its small form factor and rugged look. I think this would be a nice pickup for anyone wanting something unique and a piece of history. Besides that, this microphone has a fair bit of character and below I will include some history behind the company who produced it!

History behind this company:

The story of B&C Speakers begins in Florence in 1944. After graduating as an electrical engineer that year, Roberto Coppini began working with his brother-in-law Fernando Borrani on the idea of a company that produced loudspeakers and electro-acoustic horns for the Italian market. .

The following year, 1945, Coppini and Borrani set up a company under the name "BBC Elettroacustica Professionale", using the initials of their surnames. BBC Elettroacustica Professionale, then just a small craft business, started making simple acoustic transducers.

BBC Elettroacustica Professionale remained a small craft business until the early 1970s, dealing mainly with systems for cinemas and theatres. Later, the company also began to devote itself to the production of acoustic transducers for outdoor use. The 70s were fundamental for the BBC, thanks to the progressive affirmation of the musical genres of rock & roll and pop, which resulted in a continuous increase in the number of live concerts with the consequent need for ever-increasing availability of professional audio systems for outdoor use. In the 1980s the company identified "improving sound" as its new main priority, and the company name was changed to BBC Speakers SpA.