[Dixielandjazz] Tape problem

[Richard Broadie]

If you get a better solution, let me know.  I had this problem just last
week with some priceless masters from the early 1970s.  Dick B
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerard Bielderman" <gerardbielderman at freeler.nl>
To: "DJM List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 1:41 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Tape problem


> Dear listmates,
> Can anybody advise me what to do with the following problem?
> I'm putting all my tapes (with broadcasts since the early Sixties) on CD
but
> some tapes - after a while - start to squeake like a sick bird (because of
> dryness I suspect) and this awful sound reaches the recording/playing head
> and then is audible through the loudspeakers. When I wet the tape with a
> cotton bud the sound disappears.... But is almost impossible to do this by
> hand for a complete CD....
> Does anybody have a better solution? Maybe Bud Taylor?
> Thanks for any advice!
>
> Gerard Bielderman, Leie 18, 8032 ZG Zwolle, Netherlands
> Publisher of Eurojazz Discos, Sounds of New Orleans, Swingin' Americans
>
>
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