Re: [ARSCLIST] wire recordings - archival storage

[Dave Lewis <dlewis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tracy,

The CD is on Basta. You'll love it -- there's only one person I've known
who didn't like it, and the fact that she didn't outed her as a wanna-be
fake hipster. (-;

David N. "Uncle Dave" Lewis
Assistant Editor, Classical


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Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 2:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] wire recordings - archival storage

Hi Mike,

Nope, no relation to Andre although I'm now intrigued about hearing
"Delirium In Hi-Fi".

Thanks for the response!

Tracy

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Michael Biel <mbiel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've never had trouble with the post-war wire on Webster-Chicago type
> spools, because these all seem to be solid stainless steel.  The
problem
> lies in earlier wire which is sometimes clad.  I have an odd wartime
machine
> made by Brush for the Navy, VRW-1, that has the wire in a cartridge
and it
> is impossible to keep the wire from breaking with even the slightest
> tension.
> And while we are on the subject of Illinois and wartime wire
recorders,
> what has happened to the recorder and the wire that Marvin Camras (I
think)
> played during his ARSC Chicago Conference presentation in 1993 that
had a
> 1944 recording of Marion Anderson she recorded in his Armour Research
lab.
>  I have the talk on videotape.
> Oh, and Tracy, you're not any relation to Andre Popp are you?  He did
some
> wonderful things with tape recorders under the guise of Elsa Popping
and Her
> Pixieland Band in the 1956 award winning album Delirium In Hi-Fi.
> Mike Biel  mbiel@xxxxxxxxx
> Tracy Popp wrote:
>
>> Dear ARSC list members:
>>
>> I have been doing research on archiving wire recordings for a project
we
>> are
>> working on here at Univ. of Illinois. I have yet to find any
information
>> about preferred archival storage of these types of recordings -
storage
>> orientation, preferred archival containers, etc. I have seen
>> recommendations
>> regarding storage environment temperature but nothing definitive on
>> container or orientation.
>>
>>  I'd like to hear about how you and your institution approach
archival
>> storage of wire recordings and if you have any particular resource
you've
>> used to guide your decisions. Thank you in advance and I look forward
to
>> your responses!
>>
>> Best,
>> Tracy Popp
>> Graduate Student
>> Univ. of Illinois
>>
>>
>>
>>
>