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Great Plains · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:53 am Post subject: LibriVox nostalgia

When I was a kid, my dad got deployed to Desert Storm for about 6 months. I was probably about 6 or 7 at the time, so 6 months may as well been a hundred years. But he would read stories onto tapes and then mail them to me. I would listen to them while going to bed.

I often think about that when I edit my LibriVox recordings because my voice, intonation, accent, etc, all sound very much like my dad's did (or at least how I remember it). It's a good memory. Makes editing much more enjoyable.

Anyway, just thought I'd share. Cool

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chocoholic · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:59 am Post subject:

What a gift, to hear your father's voice in your own! Thanks for sharing. Smile

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RuthieG · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:48 am Post subject:

Lovely memory! Smile

I still have the story tapes I made for my son twenty five years ago. I should dig them out of the attic and listen to what I sounded like at 30. Laughing

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neerajanagarajan · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 2206 Location: India

Sigh... It's a beautiful memory, Daniel. And finding your dad's voice in your voice is a wonderful thing.
Thanks for sharing! Cloud Nine

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aravis · Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Posts: 1523 Location: Austria

What a wonderful memory!!!

I too have a tape my mum recorded for me when I was 2 and afraid to fall asleep. I still have it in my bedside table... I really must listen to it again some time. Smile

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neerajanagarajan · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 2206 Location: India

I've got some tapes in which my big brothers (BOTH of them) try to sing. LOL, they're all funny, how they try to sound better than the other, and higher and all. And then the oldest one gets annoyed and calls mother to shut the second one up. I was too small a baby then, I guess, but I've listened to tape a thousand times or more, and I can imagine what it would've been like Laughing

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Starlite · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 10:32 am Post subject:

Just think Daniel, that in 20 years or so, your grandchildren will be listening to you read to them! (Even if you are halfway round the country by then) SO COOL! Cool

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Great Plains · Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:59 am Post subject:

Thanks for the comments, everyone. It is interesting to think about future progeny listening to my recordings. I best ramp it up, then Mr. Green

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neerajanagarajan · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 2206 Location: India

Yay, Daniel, just 2 more recordings, and you'll be making a 100! And then 200, 300... Wow, and your grandkids, great-grandkids and everyone will listen to ALL of them. Whee.
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Great Plains · Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 10:20 am Post subject:

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Lucy_k_p · Joined: 16 Feb 2009 Posts: 743 Location: Bath, UK

I have a CD of my dad reading The Night Before Christmas that my family made 2 years ago, because I was spending Christmas in Germany with my boyfriend, but it was family tradition to gather round and listen to Dad reading that every December 1st (which we did on the phone after I came to uni) and December 24th. It's even got a bonus message from my parents at the end, where they wish me a Merry Christmas, then try to work out how to turn off the recording. *g* Then my brother grumpily stomps in and helps them with it. It nearly made me cry because it captured all of their personalities so perfectly, and I'll always be able to listen to it and hear that.

No kids yet, but if I ever do have some, I'll make sure they listen to lots of LV recordings.
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