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Precious
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4 Kinnell Street, Thornhill, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, DG3 4JL email info@preciousvoices.co.uk web www.preciousvoices.co.uk Telephone 01848 331999
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About Us
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Here
at Precious Voices we rescue the sounds of the past, preserving them
for generations to come. |
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Precious
Voices - Advice Line 01848 331999 |
 78rpm Aluminium Voice Record |
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Way back
in the early days of recorded sound if you visited a seaside pier in England
you could often record a message onto an Aluminium disc and send it through
the post to someone with a 78rpm record player. On the reverse side was
usually an advert of some kind, often for a brand of cigarettes or the
place where message was recorded. |
 Broken 78 |
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about our work retrieving an early Clarinet recording from a broken 78 rpm
record [Full Article] |
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about our work retrieving the voice of a pet budgie that had been taught
to speak in broad Glaswegian. [Full Article] |
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were interviewed by Bob
Smyth of the Sunday Post for
an article about our work retrieving sounds from old tapes. [Full Article] |
 "Live In Lochcarron" |
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We were interviewed by Vanessa Thorpe arts and media correspondent of The Observer newspaper for article entitled "Family videotape treasures at risk."
Note: Article opens in seperate window.
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An example of a mouldy tape. |
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Tape
Mould - Now Family Memories Are Under Attack From Climate Change |
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NEW
SERVICE – VIDEO TO DVD TRANSFER |
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In response
to popular demand we are now able to transfer your family video footage
to DVD. |
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Precious
Voices saves the day. |
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"How
to send 78's and other records through
the post safely" This article by broadcaster and 78 collector Bryan Wright gives you some ideas and tips on how to parcel up your records so they arrive safely when sending them to Precious Voices. |
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"Ireland
and the War" Senator MacDermot talks to America Precious Voices transfer a pair of aluminium instantaneous recording discs from CBS radio in New York containing a wartime speech by the late Senator MacDermot TD about "Ireland and the War" recorded in New York prior to the American entry into the Second World War in December 1941. |
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April 2006: We've Moved! We've moved to the lovely town of Thornhill in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. Our new address and contact information can be found on the "Contact Us" page of this website. |
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Feature:
"The Perspex Record" Follow this link to find out more about the unusual small square perspex disc which arrived recently and which we transferred to CD. Recorded by a serviceman in occupied Germany following WW2 it contained a few precious words to his family and him singing two songs, one to his mother, and the other to his wife. [Full Story] |
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Full
page in September issue of Choice Magazine, Britain's top selling monthly
magazine for the over fifties and young at heart. |
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Flypast,
Britain's top selling monthly aviation magazine have published an article
about us in their latest issue. Follow this link (or click Flypast logo) to visit a special website detailing this project and our work preserving the sounds and voices of aviation history. |
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Feature:
"To Sunshine from Daddy." Follow this link to read more about the little metal discs of aluminium coated in French polish used by British troops during WW2 to send messages home. Each little disc could be scratched on a primitive stylus machine and carry just a few precious words home to loved ones. [Full Story] |
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Follow this link (or click BFBS logo) to listen Liz Frear is interviewed by Dave Raven of BFBS Radio (British Forces Broadcasting Service) about our work. This is an archive interview from 2005. | |
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To
download this MP3 audio File, right click on the logo above and
select "Save" or "Save Target As.."
Once the file has downloaded,you can listen using the MP3 player installed on you computer. |
Precious Voices gets many hits on our website from around the World. Because proper audio restorers are few and far between in the World, we are happy to help overseas customers and regularly accept work from across the globe. We ask for payment in advance in sterling from our overseas customers and we recommend International Special Delivery as the cheapest and most secure method of sending us your material. Some customers prefer to use Fedex or a similar courier. Sending material in the post is always a risk and we can help make the process safer by giving advice on packing precious items. We can also return your restored material to you in a digital form (MP3 audio files) before we post or courier your CD's and original tapes. That way we minimise the risk to your material. It is however impossible for us to obtain insurance for what we do, even from Lloyds of London, because what we handle is often of no monetary value but of enormous emotional worth. If
you think we may be of assistance to you then please email us at info@preciousvoices.co.uk
and we will guide you from there. We pride ourselves in our customer service.
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