[78-L] Gerald Fabris and just about everyone else is out of the office^/Now...You Can't Take It Witj You

[Mark Bardenwerper]

On 5/19/2012 3:16 PM, simmonssomer wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Bardenwerper"<citrogsa at charter.net>
> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 10:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Gerald Fabris and just about everyone else is out of the
> office^/Now...You Can't Take It Witj You
>
>
>> On 5/18/2012 11:38 AM, simmonssomer wrote:
>>> You can't Take It With You.
>>>
>>> To this date I have 35,200 78 rpm Jazz and Dance Band sides on some 1400
>>> plus CD's.
>>> It's a race against time. I'm 82 years old and I only have three hundred
>>> fifty two 10 inch reels, each with one hundred twenty 78 rpm Jazz and
>>> Band
>>> sides recorded on it left to go.
>>> At perhaps one six hour reel tranferred to CD (already an obsolete
>>> medium)
>>> per day, plus another two days for the paper work it should take from
>>> three
>>> to four years, chained to my desk, to get it all done.
>>> Ain't gonna do it. Into the dumpster unless somebody wants 'em.
>>>
>>> Al Simmons
>>>
>> Hello Al,
>> If perhaps no one else has offered, I have most of what it would take to
>> help you with this. Divide and conquer. Send some to me and let me have
>> a hand at doing some of them. Perhaps we can work out a way of whittling
>> this job down to a manageable size.
>>
>> Show me how you are doing it and maybe I can help.
>>
>> Take Care,
>>
>> -- 
>> Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr.
>>
>> Technology...thoughtfully, responsibly.
>>
>> Visit me at http://citroen.cappyfabrics.com
> Mark, I have a Teac X-2000 Tape deck.(and a Tandberg) I have a couple of
> Sony twin drawer CD recorders.
> I run everything through my Pioneer stereo Receiver and a graphic equalizer.
> Very simple.
>
> The quality of the sound of the  78's on the tape runs from excellent  to
> pretty lousy for some air checks.>
> I have hard copy contents of each tape of song titles , artists and date of
> recording. Very few matrix and
> catalogue no's.
>
> What do you think? I could send you mebbe two reels and the paperwork for
> them to see what you think.
>
That's pretty much my layout. A Teac 4 track and a Teac CD recorder 
through an analog Sansui. I record direct.
You wouldn't happen to have a player that does 1 7/8 ips? I have a few 
family recordings that I would like to hear (my great grandmother is on 
one of them).

-- 
Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr.

Technology...thoughtfully, responsibly.

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