Check out the following:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=vinyl+record+scanner
playing/recovering broken records at the Library of Congress in 2008
using 'IRENE':
You Can Play the Record, but Don't Touch
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11851842
http://irene.lbl.gov/
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2007/06/good-night-irene-technology-of-dreams/
An early proof of concept implementation using a flatbed scanner and
software by Ofer Springer at the Racah Institute of Physics in 2002:
Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone
http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/
Also, needle-free laser turntables:
http://elpj.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable
Sam Brylawski wrote:
> Do you have all the pieces? (I missed any other parts of this discussion.)
> If so, or even most of them, I would hold out on completely ruining the
> recording with a spray until you know that imaging technology, such as that
> being developed at the Lawrence Berkeley Labs and other places, could not
> restore the sound. I think that you need to protect this recording from
> those who seek to destroy it in order to have something to hang on a wall.
>
> Sam
>
> 2010/8/11 Shai Drori <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>> Dir list
>> This is the continuation of the rescue of the recording of the declaration
>> of independence of the State of Israel. After short deliberations the
>> Israeli Philharmonic decided that the record should be mounted with as many
>> pieces of the original coating as possible to place. After doing so I still
>> have a flaking surface that I want to freeze in time so that it will not
>> move and flake anymore. The only option I can think of is to use clear paint
>> spray to make a coat on the entire surface. This will obviously render the
>> record unplayable forever, but at the stage of deterioration it's in it's
>> close to that point anyway. Anyone has other ideas?
>> Shai
>>
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