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[–] srgmpdns 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Olde fart here: 34 years.

The Story:

In the early 80's, I visited a certain well-known 3rd world country, I heard a cassette dub of a scratchy, old 78 rpm, 3 minute disc of one of that country's most famous musicians, probably from the 1910's -1920's.

The guy who played it for me wouldn't let me copy it, and told me that the original disc it from was probably unique: a one-off disc, never duplicated, and the 1950's reel-to-reel dub that he copied from was lost.

I listened as hard as I could, and tried to memorize the music....

Fast forward to the mid 2000's... I see on eBay a disc with a title that matches what I remember... it might be it... I bid... I win!

Months go by... the disc arrives!!!!

broken in half....

A few years go by, and I read an article that instructs me that is may be possible to reconstruct the broken disc... by placing the halves together on a turntable, set to 16 rpm, removing the clicks and noise and digitally re-aligning the grooves etc., etc.,... so I learn to do it.

Yeah, it's the same disc, but it 's not nearly as good as I remember from 34 years ago.