After the fire they did a worldwide search for copy masters, which whilst
2nd gen, we better than nothing. I was asked if i could join the team
(based in Slough, UK) digitizing everything they found. Unfortunately I
wasn't available at the time. So they will have been able to get copies of
a percentage of material lost, but who knows how much and certainly none of
the unissued stuff.

Richard

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 17:54, Gerald seligman <[log in to unmask]>
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> There is one correction to be made in my first quote. What I tried to
> convey was that low figure to represent the percentage of audio recordings
> overall that were digitized. More of commercial music was/is digitized. The
> writer had me saying that the percentage applied to commercial music, which
> it does not. I don’t have information on that.
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> Gerald Seligman
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> > On Jun 11, 2019, at 9:59 AM, Jones, Randye <[log in to unmask]>
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> > Amazing article about lose of musical heritage
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> > The Day the Music Burned
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article
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