[78-L] 3 seconds of nuttin'

[Dave Burnham]

The locked grooves are easy to fix, the skips are far more difficult. 

d

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> On Sep 14, 2016, at 5:39 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dave was talking about a recording where the repeat was already part of the 
> dub. Hey, I have a white label pressing (source unknown) where one side is a 
> dub of someone singing You Are My Sunshine, in Ukrainian, from a worn 78 with 
> several skips and repeats. Lotsa luck with that.
> 
> dl
> 
> (Haven't been able to get through to 78-L for a couple of weeks thanks to 
> something weird with the world's oldest telephone company..trying a roundabout 
> route)
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Mark Bardenwerper <citrogsa at charter.net.invalid>
> Date: September 14, 2016 at 8:52 PM
> 
> 
> 
>> On 9/14/2016 1:36 PM, Dave Burnham wrote:
>> I was mastering a set of 78s once of the Grieg Concerto and my playback hit
> a locked groove. I cleaned the record on my Monks to no avail. I examined the 
> groove under a microscope but could see no obstruction but the groove remained 
> stubbornly locked. Finally, after much more time than I should have spent on 
> this, it dawned on me, (light bulb over my head), that the period of rotation 
> of the locked groove was of a 33 1/3 rpm disk, but I was mastering a 78! The 
> locked groove was recorded! It was easy to repair by removing the repeated 
> revolutions but elsewhere on the set there was a skip ahead, (once again as 
> recorded), that couldn't be repaired. Scratch that project!
> I once was able to repair a locked groove with a magnifying glass and a
> pin caused by a dig. Did not miss any data. Lucky.
> 
> -- 
> Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr.
> 
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> 
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