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BingFrisby
Jun-08-2006, 23:17 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
 | Bodo, I am considering playing my original "Teen Scoop visits with Simon & Garfunkel" original flexidisc from the mid 1960s.It is one of those that is played on a record player and needs to be taped to the turntable at the corners to avoid slipping.Can you recommend a selotape that I could use that would hold it in place without removing any of the cardboard from the record when I remove the tape after playing?This item is so rare that I don´t want to risk damaging it.What kind of selotape did you use to hold your copy in place and was the record undamaged afterwards? |
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Bodo
Jun-09-2006, 00:13 GMT
IP:
Austria
 | I used "Taiki" selotape from a Japanes company. This selotape was only produced in 1987/88 and is very rare today. I bought mine 4 years ago from a Japanese dealer placed in Yokohama who sold it for 87.000 Yen. Sadly I can not find this dealers internet site anymore, seems as if the company is out of buisness today.
This is another shop I just found, they are selling it too
http://taiki777.co.jp/ |
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Julie
Jun-09-2006, 13:47 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
 | Is that as serious question? I´m guessing low tack masking tape. But then I don´t actually know what a flexidisc is ! |
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BingFrisby
Jun-09-2006, 15:19 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
| Thanks, Bodo.It is a serious question, yes.I know general tape will sticj to the cardboard and could possibly remove some of the outer layer from the disc.This thing is so rare and is really something that is played once, recorded then kept safe and scure from heat or light sources.The thing is it does need to be very tightly secured to stop it slipping.Julie, a flexidisc is a plastic record which is very thin and is set within a square piece of cardboard, just like the free ones that were issued with magazines in the 70s ,eg "look in" etc.They were the type of thing that would be slotted into the cover of say a guitar tutor book where, nowadays, it would be a CD.The hole in the middle of the disc must be kept round, not rounded out so the record plays as a normal vinyl would.I know there are recordings made from this particular S&G disc around but I have been unable to get hold of one.Need to get mine copied now.Will be happy to share it....if I could just find this selotape. |
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Rosemary in time
Jun-09-2006, 16:24 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| So what exactly is on this Teen Scoop disc, Bing? Rare demos? Or maybe a specially extended 15 minute version of Voices Of Old People?? |
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BingFrisby
Jun-09-2006, 19:02 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
| You mean you have never heard of it,Rosemary...tut! |
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Rosemary in time
Jun-09-2006, 19:19 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| No, I´m afraid I´m far too young to know anything about cardboard discs from the 1960s. Did you have cardboard record players to play them on? It all sounds a bit like the Flintstones to me. |
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BingFrisby
Jun-10-2006, 18:36 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
| Of course they were played on cardboard record players,RIT!..Didn´t you know that either?...Soft record players in cardboard cases....So dim! |
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neongoddess
Jun-10-2006, 19:43 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
| I seem to remember having some cardboard "Alf" record that I got with a McDonalds meal or something back in the 80´s. It came with an Alf stuffed animal and the "record" had this song on it called "Cooking with Alf" if I remember correctly. Maybe this is the sort of thing Bing refers to? Or maybe I´m crazy. |
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neongoddess
Jun-10-2006, 20:04 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
| I seem to remember having some cardboard "Alf" record that I got with a McDonalds meal or something back in the 80´s. It came with an Alf stuffed animal and the "record" had this song on it called "Cooking with Alf" if I remember correctly. Maybe this is the sort of thing Bing refers to? Or maybe I´m crazy. |
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BingFrisby
Jun-11-2006, 10:51 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
| That´s the thing I mean, Neon. |
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Simon Dooker
Jun-12-2006, 17:16 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| Bing,i was wondering whether besides these rare teen scoop discs, if you have any spare copies of Tony Jaspers pamphlet,"The religious content of Paul Simons songs", lying around your attic? |
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Simon Dooker
Jun-12-2006, 17:18 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| I will even consider copies affixed with Japanese Sellotape. |
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BingFrisby
Jun-17-2006, 19:29 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
| No, Simon, I have not got a copy of this pamphlet.The teen Scoop disc is in the singular. |
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BingFrisby
Jun-17-2006, 19:35 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
| Also, items such as vintage S&G/PS literatue or discs, songbooks or newspaper items are very rare.It is only because of the internet links that these things are seen to be more common than they actually are.If 500 people came into the forum, each with a copy of the Teen Scoop disc, it would still be rare on a worldwide scale. |
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