REEL Cassette Tip

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milosancho

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I remember long ago, in another site, someone mentioned they scored some reel type cassettes with gospel music prerecorded on them. So I sometimes go through the box of junk cassettes that you see on the floor at your local goodwill, thrift store, swapmeet, etc. Today it paid off - found a couple of those reel cassettes.

In the box there was a bunch of the same serier of cassettes, all recorded with different songs or bible verses. From the outside they all appeared to be the same except a couple of these were the reel type cassettes. The others were just regular clear cassette with the plastic insert thing and black writting.

These are dated 1983 & 1987 and still sound real good. According to the tape box they are recorded on XDR Expanded Dynamic Range with Dolby HX Pro. Very short tape lenght though, prolly 15-20 minutes each side. They are the type with screws so would be easy to spool in some quality tape in them.

Anywho - here they are. I'm including a picture of the actual cassette box just in case you come across these in your searchings.

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Fatdog

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milosancho said:
I remember long ago, in another site, someone mentioned they scored some reel type cassettes with gospel music prerecorded on them....
That would have been me. :-D I posted about that over at S2G.
 

MasterBlaster84

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Oh no I've seen some of those exact cases before but never looked inside, did I miss some really cool reels. :huh: :'-(

Love the clean cool look, congrats on the score. :thumbsup:
 

Fatdog

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MasterBlaster84 said:
Oh no I've seen some of those exact cases before but never looked inside, did I miss some really cool reels. :huh: :'-(

Love the clean cool look, congrats on the score. :thumbsup:
It is indeed possible that you have missed some reels. Somewhere along the way, Word (the music company) switched over to regular cassettes loaded with TDK tape and which do not have the reels.

The "non-reels" are REALLY easy to spot because the J-card insert will actually hide both sides of the cassette. So, if you pick one up and you can't see reels, just put it back down and look for the next one. ;-) :yes:

Oh, and one more thing... Goo Gone and a little bit of work can remove the printing on the cassettes. Luckily they are only printed on one side.
 

MasterBlaster84

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Good tip bobby, I'll pay more attention. Honestly the ones I saw were about a year ago and I don't remember what was on them, not even sure I picked them up.
 

oldskool69

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I have several of these myself and grab them whenever I see them. Another one is the "Cliffs Cassettes" books on tape which were recorded onto reel style cassettes. I think I have two of these. :-)

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