[sdiy] Re: [AH] Bebe Barron's page on NPR.org

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In a message dated 2/8/05 10:45:53 AM, peter at buzzclick-music.com writes:


> This is a very knotty issue.  Louie's second wife is dead set that these
> tapes are worth a fortune and has held all of it waiting for that fortune to
> arrive.  Bebe's repeated attempts have been ignored,  as have those of the
> Library of Congress and this is the basis of the 'issues' between she and
> Louie's second wife that Susan touched upon in the interview.  It's sad -
> although, most of these tapes consist of hours and hours of work files and
> most recorded in the 50's - so the tapes are pretty screwed up by now.
> They're in a garage - not a temp and humidity controlled storage facility.
> 

Too bad that something cannot be negotiated, mediated or otherwise worked 
out.   

The combination of tapes (were they playable) and old circuits diagrams and 
other info could possibly be made into a Barrons' equivalent of that Raymond 
Scott CD/booklet, Manhattan Research Inc.
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