Korgscrew
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Posted: June 15 2008, 16:42 |
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| Quote (Sweetpea @ June 15 2008, 20:45) | | ...your mention of a reel-to-reel tape has reminded me that I used to be fascinated by my brother's player. I thought it was a beautiful piece of equipment and simply watching the movement was, perhaps, as mesmerizing as a revolving LP. |
Ah yes...that in turn brings back memories for me...
My first encounter with reel to reel tape was with the mighty Studer A80. The transport path was fairly sophisticated, to ensure a stable tape speed...I loved watching the tape snake around all the rollers and pulleys (not to mention all the editing paraphernalia - the chinagraph pencils, reels of different colours of leader, rolls of splicing tape, razor blades, the pained howls of someone who'd just cut their fingers instead of the tape...).
Anyway, to go back on topic...I must say I only have the very vaguest clue of how many copies of certain things I have. I don't exactly deliberately collect things - that is to say, I've never been one to have a want list and go in search of the items on it. I just tend to acquire things, and I'm often surprised, when I start to count, at just how many things I've managed to accumulate.
It's been a few years since I bought a vinyl record, I think, but it used to be a favourite occupation of mine to go idly wandering around second hand record shops, in moments that would otherwise have been filled with boredom, seeing if there was anything I liked the look of. I normally just used to buy anything I hadn't seen before, so I've ended up with a motley collection of all sorts, from the commonplace to the decidedly rare.
I suppose the album I probably have the most copies of is Tubular Bells, if you count Boxed and the Elements boxed set as being copies of it. I think I can count 10. That's frightening, actually. There are some I only have one of...a lot depends on what I happened to find on my expeditions. I can only say in defence of the 'collection' that it takes up a whole lot less space than, say, a collection of musical instruments...erm...*cough*...not that I'd know anything about that. *innocent whistle*
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. Interesting story for another time(yeah I know, thank God, Jim). But if it all was worth saving, it was for HR, Ommadawn and Incantations. Don't sell your LP's, at least not the tubularian ones. Yesterday's art is now an artifact. Take the ifact out, you still have the art on MP3 or CD. But those arent fun to look at! Let alone preserve..... 
