A magnetic head mounted on a rotary head drum device comprises a head chip, and
a magnetic shield disposed to surround all or a part of the surfaces other than
a front surface of the head chip. The magnetic shield comprises a magnetic flux
absorber made of ferrite and an electromagnetic wave shield made of copper. This
enables a reduction of the amount of unnecessary magnetic fluxes and electromagnetic
waves jumping away from the recording head to the reproducing head. Simultaneously,
the magnetic flux absorber absorbs the magnetic flux coming from outside to the
reproducing head before the magnetic flux reaches the head chip and the electromagnetic
wave shield shields a high frequency electromagnetic wave which was not absorbed
by the magnetic flux absorber 80 that it is possible to reduce the amount
of the magnetic flux or the like jumping into the reproducing head and to improve
the S/N of the reproduced signal.