Organizing and Editing the KWR Tapes

This is going to be the hard part.

It's taken me 2 evenings just to sort out the initial captures of the 21 sides; they are all straightened out, and I am almost done clipping the silence from the beginning and ending.

Update: more clues that the source tapes were reel to reel and that these are duplicates. There was a "bobbing" type sound at the beginning of one tape, probably from slack on a reel.

If these are duplicate copies, I wonder where the originals are. I suppose there are several possibilities:

• The UAW still has them
• They are buried in a pile of materials at Reuther
• They are lost

Regardless of where they are, if they haven't been digitized, they are even harder to work with than these copies. There are fewer and fewer reel to reel decks; it's much harder to stop and rewind those machines. Even if the originals are somewhere safe, chances are this work I'm doing will be of some use to someone.

Thought: perhaps Brian Harding would like to co-author an article or a presentation at a conference.