[78-L] Collectors/Hoarders.

[Spats]

Hi Brad!

My answer to this had always been to colour code the edges of 78rpm 
sleeves with various coloured sticky tapes.

Let's say you have RED at the top of the sleeve to denote...I don't 
know, let's say a tenor player....an BLUE lower down to show that 
it's Ben Webster. So RED (top) and BLUE (bottom) = Ben Webster.

YELLOW at the top could mean a big-band and BLUE lower down could be, 
say,...Duke Ellington etc.

As you get more tenor-players you get into two colour combinations, 
even three colour combinations, but you list the code on one page of 
a book and you can find records within a minute or so this way!

So, to coin a phrase, 'get stuck in'! ;-)

Earl.

At 12:00 pm -0800 11/11/2009, 78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com wrote:
>When I started out, I was somewhere between a 'collector' and an 
>'accumulator'.  My collection had a center, a focus (pre-ww2 swing 
>and popular, with a side emphasis on classical).  As it, and my 
>musical tastes grew, it went more from a collection-accumulation' to 
>an 'archive'.  Things were sorted, jacketed, and somewhat organized. 
>That included the 45s and LPs as well as the 78s.
>
>However, the archive has grown steadily, and my time to work with it 
>has not.  So, now it is, sadly, unorganized, unsorted, and some 
>things are near impossible to get to.  I can still get to a majority 
>of things, but if I want to get to the section that has the Red 
>Onion Jazz Babies 78s or the section that has the 50s doo-wop 78s, I 
>need to shuffle other things around (material stored in the garage, 
>where the archive lives now).  I recently acquired a 5 drawer 
>lateral file cabinet for the 7-inch reels to be able to get them out 
>of the boxes that they have sat in for a couple of years.