Re: Old Lute LPs

2004-06-03 Thread Roman Turovsky
David Brown of Baltimore, better known as a luthier, is an expert on the subject (and old 78's). He's been lurking for ages, so maybe he'd feel compelled to advise us. RT __ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv > Those interested in restoring old LPs might be interested in the

Re: old lute LPs

2004-06-03 Thread MWWilson
I believe there are software applications that will convert analog recordings to digital formats, although I haven't used them. About 4 years ago, I acquired a cd copier made by Philips. It has two cd trays (source and destination) and pretty much does all the work. It can make direct copies of

Re: Old Lute LPs

2004-06-03 Thread Jon Murphy
Heee's baack, out of hospital this morning. There are specific programs for restoring old LP's, although I haven't used them. My solution, given that my record player is remote from my computer, is to use the audio tape output from the player, then a cassette player with that tape as input to the

Re: Old Lute LPs

2004-06-04 Thread Tony Chalkley
n be prety disastrou. Tony - Original Message - From: "Jon Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Stephen Arndt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 8:34 AM Subject: Re: Old Lute LPs > Heee's baack, out of hospital thi

RE: Old Lute LPs

2004-06-04 Thread David Brown
Hello, As prompted by Roman, I'll step out of the shadows and sawdust to give my two cents. First, the source is one of the most important places to start in this process. Clean your records. This can be done carefully by hand or with a record cleaning machine. Be careful you can ruin records by

Re: old lute LPs

2004-06-04 Thread Ed Durbrow
At 9:31 PM + 04/6/03, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >For example, Iíve got an old Hungaraton record >of Daniel Benko (trying to look like Frank Zappa >on the cover) playing Bakfark. I havenít >listened to this in years but I remember it as >being pretty awful. Sometimes even a terrible record

Re: old lute LPs

2004-06-05 Thread bill
On Sabato, giu 5, 2004, at 08:46 Europe/Rome, Ed Durbrow wrote: > Led Zeppelin > anyone? > tiny tim lives! eric burden once said that for anyone who sang "it's my life and i'll do what i want" and has kids, life is hell.

Re: old lute LPs

2004-06-05 Thread Jon Murphy
> eric burden once said that for anyone who sang "it's my life and i'll > do what i want" and has kids, life is hell. For anyone, whatever their situation, the alternative is worse.