[78-L] Wow!

[Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr.]

I just finished as best I could restoring a set of transcriptions I was 
sent. The first half of them was Lou  Breese and Arthur Murray doing a 
show that aired in 1937. The sound was pretty good on those, although 
someone had arbitrarily cut the show into pieces, missing the silences 
after the tunes just before the next dialog, leaving endings on the next 
track. I reassembled them and fixed fade ins an outs. So far, so good.

The next half was a combination of 78's, a few I already have. The final 
ones were of remotes, one from Chez Paris in Chicago and another from 
the University of Cincinnati, some great, hot rollicking tunes. But the 
quality of the originals are atrocious. They sound like the recordings 
were taken from an out of tune cheap AM radio on a tiny recorder with a 
pillow laid on top. I did my best to expand the existing sound to get 
some life and now they are nearly listenable. But I have another problem 
that I really don't know how to tackle. Seems a few of the records were 
played on player with bad idler or a loose belt. Throughout is a slow 
wow, the same frequency as the turntable with a variation of about a 
quarter tone. Has anyone been able to repair this type of error?

-- 
Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. #:?)
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