The trouble with spaghetti is that you can only record on it once.

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From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Shai Drori
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 2:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Disentangling a pancake

Hey that's a good idea. I will use it next time I get spaghetti.
Shai

On 24/01/12 10:23, Michael Biel wrote:
> On 1/23/2012 2:29 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
>> . I've also found it much easier to work with a reel actually on the 
>> tape machine and slowly spool on the tape from the mess on the floor 
>> or in a clean bucket or box. Once in a while, the tangling will get 
>> to be so you need to take the reel off the machine and turn it around 
>> and around to relieve some of the tangle. If you can confine the tape 
>> to a skinny round bucket, you can just spin the bucket too. Overall 
>> it's an unpleasant undertaking.
>>
>> -- Tom Fine
>
> I've put the reel on a turntable rather than on a tape machine.  You 
> can hand-spin the turntable at whatever speed will be convenient, and 
> the flywheel effect will keep it going.  But you can stop it instantly 
> by hand if you get a tangle.  This also works very well if what has 
> happened is the center of the pancake falling out but most of the rest 
> is still intact but limp.
>
> Mike Biel  [log in to unmask]
>