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Re: [ARSCLIST] Comparable collections anywhere?
This sounds like an important collection.
Karl made a very important point about these perhaps being the best
version of the collection. However, some portion of the last ten
years of these _may_ have been mastered to tape and then transcribed
to disc for distribution.
While you can do a lot worse than pristine ET discs, it would be
interesting to know if the original master tapes survive in your
collection or in another collection. I wouldn't waste too much time
looking for that tapes as the ETs should be fairly close to the
tapes, but if a few hours cause the tapes to surface, then evaluating
the tape vs. the disc would be useful and transferring the one that
generally sounds better.
Neither tape nor lacquer disc is really archival, so one of these
should be transferred soon. The lacquer discs are probably the
priority even if tape is found.
Cheers,
Richard
At 03:36 PM 9/11/2006, RA Friedman wrote:
The Philadelphia Fellowship Commission recordings are radio
plays produced by the Commission dealing with issues of tolerance,
ethics, and diversity. Primary date range is 1941-1957.
The collection consists of approximately 600 sides on 33
1/3 acetate surfaced discs, most on aluminum cores, with a total
running time of sixteen minutes per side, for a total of 160 hours
of recorded sound. Most discs are in very good to excellent
condition. Test transfers indicate robust sound.
Richard L. Hess email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX
Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm
Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.