@NigelTufnel It was a bummer and cemented my hatred of cassettes as a format—even aside from stuff like this, they can't maintain a constant speed from one end of a tape to the other! If you lived on Planet Earth at the time, you will have heard my scream when I was told that the youngs were making them "hip" again. :-) As I've been working thru the transfers of my master tapes, I’ve gotten good at using residual 60Hz hum to get the speed/pitch back to what was originally recorded.