Re: [AV Media Matters] SOS

[Richard Hess <arclists@richardhess.com>]

I watched the show, too, Steve.

I thought it interesting, but I did not appreciate the steps that were
taken with the old Leadbelly tapes. There was no mention of checking for
proper azimuth nor for checking the track format. I'm not sure what
heads
the Nagra had in it, but many of these are full-track, and azimuth at
7-1/2 and full track is a big concern.

I thought it irresponsible to continue peeling oxide off a tape when
perhaps some treatment--be it the "Grandfather Clock" approach
of the British Library, or Peter Brothers' chilling technique, or
whatever, might be applied to save that and other tapes.

I'm glad that the LOC and the Smithsonian can afford to digitize 24/96
and keep the audio on multiple large servers. That certainly is not
economical (or perhaps even prudent) for smaller archives in my
opinion.

They certainly covered a lot and I think that if nothing else, the show
serves well as a clarion call to preserve what we have. Each doing
his/her own little corner of it. Right now my little corner seems to be
oral histories and band organs!

Cheers,

Richard



At 12:46 PM 12/27/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> Please
> forward to other appropraite recipients.
>  
> Many of us watched the "Save Our
> Sounds" program on the History Channel last night. 
>  
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