Oh, this is fun. I had exactly one tape that admits to being less than 1800 feet, so I figured I’d get that out of the way. It’s 1200 feet, or just over an hour per side. The box is labeled “Kantner-Slick\/Starship\/Sunfighter.”<\/p>\n
The box lies.<\/p>\n
In faded tiny lettering it also says “I\/Dance.music\/Bach harpsichord\/medieval.” This part is merely unhelpful, rather than flat-out wrong. I’ve recorded Side 1. I have not yet identified most of the music on it. The first three tracks are all piano and\/or flute (or recorder, or pennywhistle, I’m not sure) dances. They don’t match the beginning of any album in my collection.<\/p>\n
I think this might be something Jody put together (or had me put together) for a performance by Ring o’ Bells, her Morris troupe.<\/p>\n
And it was quite likely recorded live, not off a record.<\/p>\n
There are five tracks of that, and then Bach’s Concerto in C Minor for Two Harpsichords — but it isn’t the same version I already had from my Nonesuch collection; I don’t recognize it as a recording I’d heard before. Then there are a few more Bach pieces that I haven’t identified yet, though one sounds familiar — it’s about 25 minutes of Bach in all, I think — and then some random medieval music I also haven’t yet identified.<\/p>\n
The Bach and medieval stuff is off records — it has that background hum, where the live stuff doesn’t.<\/p>\n
Where did I get<\/i> this music? And why?<\/p>\n
Jody’s long dead, but I asked my other sisters if they know anything. Ruth thinks she may be able to identify some of it.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the other side of the tape actually is Kantner & Slick’s “Sunfighter” and selected songs from “Blows Against the Empire,” which I don’t need. Already got ’em from LP\/CD.<\/p>\n
I think this means I flopped the sides, because the box has the Kantner\/Slick stuff listed first<\/i>. I have two empty reels for exactly such a purpose — play the tape onto take-up reel A, but then instead of rewinding it back onto its own spool you run it onto take-up reel B. Then<\/i> you put it back on its own spool, and the sides are swapped.<\/p>\n
I must have done that with this one at some point.<\/p>\n
Which is probably what that faint “I” on the box is about.<\/p>\n
I’ve transferred everything from Side 1, even though I can’t identify most of it, which means I can toss the tape.<\/p>\n
Thirty-eight tapes left. And I still have some sorting and identifying to do on material off some of the fourteen that have been discarded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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