Karl Miller wrote:

>It reminds me of when I work on a restoration project. I can spend 30
>hours or so trying to look through that keyhole to the past and capture
>all that I can, a recording that might be 20 minutes long.

Indeed.  I'm a restorationist of live, amateur-recorded, 1950s-60s
traditional jazz tapes, and after hours of trial and error, to finally
find that perfect medium between acceptable and not, why, it requires a
signal shot of something significant (most trad-jassers require single
malt, but I'm perfectly okay with mid-range Kentucky sourmash)!, Etc,

Fr M J "Mike" Logsdon
North American Old Roman Catholic Church (Utrecht Succession)
www.naorc.org