The art of trying to keep your Zen during tape recorder maintenance

repairing old (late 50 s and 60 s) tape recorders can be pretty hard, every mechanical part is mounted and connected with springs, levers and there is a bunch of drive belts making things more complicated. Once the thing is taken apart it can be very very frustrating to put it back together again. This time I recorded a couple of notes from a prepared zither everytime I finished a recorder to keep me a bit zen, in the end I had this little composition with seven nearly synced tape loops and some shots I m