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In Reply to: advice on playing old reel to reel tape posted by quimbyts on May 4, 2005 at 16:43:09:
Nobody seems to be biting on this, so I'll throw out that you might want to pay someone who does archival work to evaluate the tape for you since the tape has historical value. With some types of tapes there can be issues with the binder migrating through the oxide layer over time. The layers of tape get stuck together. When you play the tape pieces of oxide can be shed, causing irreparable damage. Specialists in tape restoration will know about the particular type of tape you have and what special handling it may need. If it is a tape that has "sticky shed syndrome", they can bake the tape to restore it well enough to make you an analog or digital copy.My bud Dave Dintenfass of Full Track Productions might be able to help you out
www.fulltrackproductions.com
He does a lot of archival work on historical spoken word recordings for the city of Seattle.
and a Google turns up another person specializing in this service named Richard Hess.
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- Re: advice on playing old reel to reel tape - Doc B. 09:29:37 05/05/05 (1)
- Re: advice on playing old reel to reel tape - quimbyts 13:05:55 05/06/05 (0)
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