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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Leonard" <ken@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Last Manufacturer of Pro Analog Audio Tape
Closes


Dear all

> Martin turns his pinch rollers into tyres (tires for us American types :-)
> ) by really rounding off the edges. They look like what' you'd see on a
> motorcycle when done.

By sheer coincidence, #1145 & I have just come back from a day-trip to
Streetly (which is nowhere near Streetly, but never mind), where Martin did
exactly this to my pinch rollers. Mind you, two of them were irredeemably
shagged, and were replaced, but she's sounding 100% better.

> The tapes from the 70s do hold up really well, strangely enough. I've
seen
> enough sets of them. The set that I got in the Mouseotron would have been
> fine except for the mouse goo all over them (and 2 tapes being spliced
with
> masking tape). I bet I could still clean them up and get them to play OK.

I was given several pep-talks in the space of a few hours on how my
late-'70s tapes are worn out and need replacing. OK, they're rather 'boxy',
but I reckon they've still got a few years left in 'em yet. Sorry, chaps.
:-)

Andy T.
#1145 (still hoping to go on tour this month)