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Perhaps someone might have a suggestion for recovering the music from a 12" glass-based 78 rpm acetate? It is so thin and relatively heavy that I can't imagine that it could be mended permanently. My thought had been to take two slightly larger discs, one hard and the other pasteboard, cut out a 12" hole in the middle of the pasteboard one where the acetate would fit in and a spindle hole in the harder disc, glue the two together, and put the (fortunately only two) pieces of the broken acetate in the open space, perhaps with something sticky where the label is. Record it. Flip the pieces over, repeat, and then have a shot of gin. It would take a lot of effort, so can anyone report any luck attempting something like this so I can gage whether it's worth trying, or better yet, does anyone know a better solution? Jerry Young