The Tape That Would Not Rewind!

Bought last month on cassette, this devilish critter peeved me to no end.

Before playing an unfamiliar tape, of course, one should fast-forward to the end of Side One and then rewind to the beginning.  This provides a little shakedown for the mechanism and helps rectify any off-kilter bits.

But this fiendish device WOULD NOT move in any direction.  It would sputter along for a few seconds and then lock up.  Swapping front-and-back tape insertion, using rewind for the opposite side, slamming the tape down on both sides to try and settle any wacky alignment -- NOTHING would make this puppy FF or REW.

I finally hand-wound the thing to the beginning and simply PLAYED it.  And gosh-a-whillickers, it done did purty good!

To see all the partitions of some of these long pieces, consult the cassette scans, or the above Discogs listing.


Battles for Brass (48:25)



01. William Byrd - The Battell (23:22)

02. Adriano Banchieri - Fantasia: Udite, Ecco Le Trombe (1:47)

03. Johann Kuhnau - Biblical Sonata No 1: The Battle Between David and Goliath (15:12)

04. John Jenkins - Fantasia: Newark Siege (5:45)

05. G F Handel - La Réjouissance (2:19)

Now YOU get the benefit of the hassle.

See you on Thursday!