[78-L] Young collectors -- Go for it!

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My love for 78s was instilled in me by my Mother, who let me play her 
old 78s. This was even before I was old enough to go to school.

Later, after I got a litle older, I could play the LPs, but they weren't 
as much fun, too slow. Who wants to wait 1/2 hour to watch the arm operate?

My first records - (LP) Mozart K.488 played by Geza Anda on DG. 
Rachmaninoff playing his first concerto (on 78). Bought it for a quarter 
from the nabor next door. I wondered how the piano player could be 
listed as the composer also...did he actually live and make records?

As long as I was spending $$ on music, my Mother was happy. My Father 
OTOH was not so happy about it when I, a little older yet, started 
buying collectors comic books, until I started selling some of them. My 
first haul there was a stack of comics for $400. He was amazed. I spent 
the money on radio transcriptions.

joe salerno

Ted Kneebone wrote:
> Now I have read several posters who have encountered supporters and 
> non-supporters of young collectors of records.  I surely agree with those 
> who have encouraged the young people.
> 
>     We were young once!
> 
> We had to start somewhere.  Was it my "Jim Lawson's Hogs"?  Or Beethoven's 
> 8th symphony?
> I think for me it was a desire to hear good classical music.  In the towns 
> where I was raised there was no opportunity to hear a live symphony 
> orchestra -- except on the radio.  And even there, I had to put up with 
> static.
> 
> When I have the chance to encourage young collectors of "old time radio" and 
> old records, I am pleased to do that.
> 
> I sometimes wonder what will happen to the churches in town that do not 
> encourage participation by young people?  I look around at all the white 
> hair and the bald people.  Who will take their place?
> 
> And that same disintegration of churches will happen to collectors of old 
> stuff.  Old records, old radio programs, whatever else is old and of value 
> to the listener.  These young people are our heritage, our legacy.
> 
> Some of our heroes are on those discs:  Rachmaninov, McCormack, Heifetz, the 
> Lone Ranger, Jack Benny, Quiet, Please.  May their voices never be stilled!
> 
> Ted Kneebone. 1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401. Phone: 605-226-3344.
> Old Time Radio: http://abe.midco.net/tkneebone3 
> 
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