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I felt privileged to be chosen to read for the Christmas edition of the local Talking Newspaper. All seemed to be going smoothly as we set up until the technician discovered the eject button was pushed right in on the recording deck. After some experimentation he discovered the tape drawer would automatically eject when he turned the power off, so we thought we were set to go and he did the sound level checks ... but then discovered that the recording sounded distorted. He changed the master tape and tried again ... same result. Both tapes had been folded in on themselves. He looked in the tape drawer and found that a cotton bud (used to clean the recording heads) had dropped down inside. No tools to remove it, but after much fiddling with a pen and a pair of scissors, he managed to wriggle it out. With a third master tape in the deck, we tried again .... same result! The tape was STILL being folded. He phoned the 'man in charge' - no reply. Meanwhile us girls were exploring and found an old tape deck so we got that out and set it up in place of the faulty one ... the technician was a bit concerned that he couldn't get adequate sound levels but we decided to try reading the first article and check to see if you could hear it. Sadly our Talking Newspaper was barely a whisper. Realising we'd run out of options, we packed up and went home early.
(I'm on the left in the photo, wearing the silly hat)
