Pet_Sounds

I've got an old cassette of Don McLean's American Pie that I'm trying to play. I get a few seconds of "American Pie", then right around the line about delivering papers, it starts to make a windy sound, and the music lowers in pitch until it becoes growly, and then eventually, all I can hear is the windy noise. I know there are a couple tape collectors here, so I'm curious: Is this irreparable, or can it be fixed? If the latter, how? Thanks in advance.

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