Great collection and effort, but why no click and crackle removal? No sound
quality is lost, only noise.

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 1:37 AM, Brewster Kahle <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Paul-- thank you for posting the helpful article.
>
> Clark-- the condition of the 78's from the Boston Collection are quite
> good-- I am guessing they did not circulate, but they are not mint.
>
> We have a uncoming collection from a distributor, so they are mint.
> They are from the 40's and early 50's.   So looking forward to those as
> well.
>
>
> We are looking for the best we can get.
>
> onward!
>
> -brewster
>
>
>
> On 6/26/18 4:25 PM, Paul T. Jackson wrote:
> > Here is a note about the Boston records as well as the 78s project
> > which include 20 other collections.
> > https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/boston-public-
> library-will-digitize-200000-vintage-recordings-180966931/
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/26/2018 3:33 PM, Clark Johnsen wrote:
> >> Just askin': Has any attention been paid to getting unworn or un-noisy
> >> sides for this laudable preservation effort? When I read just now
> >> that your
> >> source was a public library where patrons would have been borrowing them
> >> and/or playing them on any sort of machine, it made me wonder. By the
> >> way,
> >> are you in Boston?
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Brewster Kahle <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> for the fanatics (well, like me), we have another 6,000 78rpm sides up
> >>> on archive.org as part of the Great 78 Project.   (now 74k digitized
> >>> <https://archive.org/details/georgeblood> total)
> >>>
> >>> I was able to find dates for 91% of them, and volunteers have
> >>> started on
> >>> others.
> >>>
> >>> Lots of Victors and Deccas, almost all from the Boston Public Library
> >>>
> >>>     link to the new ones:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?and%5B%5D=
> >>> publicdate%3A%5B2018-06-10+TO+*%5D&sin=&sort=-publicdate
> >>>
> >>> onward!
> >>>
> >>> -brewster
> >>>
> >
>