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Topic: Cleaning a flaking acetate - advisable?

  9th Dec 2021, 5:07 AM
Break-In Master

Member since Dec 2013
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fantasista wrote:
Well... as for "results," I can only use the term loosely. It was an inside-out recording, containing a translation into German of Mussolini's declaration of war of June 10, 1940, and two other pieces of radio dialogue on the opposite side. I was able to play through the A-side recording once, although unfortunately the last eighth of an inch or so was simply gone before I started. The B-side (as the pictures show) was in much worse shape, as an amateur with a consumer turntable I'm not sure I can get any more than the snippets in-between the bare metal I managed to record.

Photos of the disc

Audio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Because it's a radio acetate, and what it contains, I assume it's not a unique record, so it's a consolation to think someone out there may have one that's intact. And now I have to do a little begging: if one of our users who speaks German natively could tell me what's being said in the last 4 links (assuming you can make it out), I would appreciate it.

Whoozh!! That's pretty rough!! I'd say that's WAY more than just LIGHTLY flaking!
The noise is way louder than the recording! Towards the end of the last part I heard the names, Adolph Hitler and Mussolini.


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