One of the things I've been wanting to say is I worked with a-lot of old Soviet printed music - it was brought into the West (and one of my saints is Sir Charles Mackerras) and the Soviet music engraving machines were just technologically amazing - totally lost today. BUT - THE PAPER. It is SO acidic - something with the Soviet Kraft pulping process. It's all going to fall apart unless there's some real serious conservation - and I was only working in the art/literature/intellectual space, let alone the sensitive economic/scientific/military-security space. This would be a travesty for historiography if it is concealed before it can be preserved.
Very interesting, on so many levels to broadly apply to many topics globally.
One of the things I've been wanting to say is I worked with a-lot of old Soviet printed music - it was brought into the West (and one of my saints is Sir Charles Mackerras) and the Soviet music engraving machines were just technologically amazing - totally lost today. BUT - THE PAPER. It is SO acidic - something with the Soviet Kraft pulping process. It's all going to fall apart unless there's some real serious conservation - and I was only working in the art/literature/intellectual space, let alone the sensitive economic/scientific/military-security space. This would be a travesty for historiography if it is concealed before it can be preserved.
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