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From: Karen Mercedes
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Subject: RE: vocalist audio
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I've left this one alone in hopes that it would go away. When I moved
house last year (to a singer-friendly apartment) I used the movers from
hell (a total surprise because I'd used them on an earlier move and had
been very pleased, which was why I hired them again; who knows what went
wrong - change of management, perhaps?).

Not only did they break stuff, but two boxes went missing, never to
be found again. One box contained toiletries, etc., that were annoying to
lose, but not that big a deal. The other contained virtually all of my
cassette tapes - including the Vocalist tapes and all my own live
performance tapes. Frankly, I suspect that the movers dropped both the
boxes (I say this based on the several breakages I found among things in
other boxes) then "lost" (read: trashed) the contents, figuring it wasn't
worth it to 'fess up.

Unfortunately, the tapes that were lost also included the Master Tape,
which I had completed after two false starts (the first, I taped with the
wrong tape type set on the recorder; the second time, the recorder's belt
broke and I had to replace the whole unit), but which I hadn't started
dubbing.

I've been living in the (increasingly vague) hope that these boxes would
turn up again, but after bugging the bejeezus out of the moving company
for several months now, I've given up hope, and am now trying to extract
some monetary compensation without having to actually hire a lawyer (who
would, frankly, cost me more than the recordings were probably
worth...monetarily).

So that's the fate of the last Vocalist tape. Frankly, given all the
complications with the tape recorder and then the movers, I figured it was
Fate (Karma) telling me something: i.e., that tape was not meant to be (at
least not produced by me).

My apologies to all for not mentioning this sooner. I truly was hoping
the boxes would turn up again, but I imagine that after a year, I should
just resign myself.

KM
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