[78-L] Average age

[Michael Biel]

If you check the response letters to these postings  you will see that
although many are from old codgers like us, there are often some from
kids who are amazed at the stuff.  Hopefully they will get attracted to
them like all of us did when we were kids.  Of course they can get the
audio thru downloads and CDs (if they collect those) but maybe they will
see by looking at the images that the records themselves are fun.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  


-------- Original Message --------
From: Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com>

As for younger collectors of 78's...
I'm not at all surprised that some kids in their 20's start collecting. 
Because never in history has old and new music been so readily 
available, side by side, at the same place, nicely packaged, perfectly 
possible to run across at random.


I'm thinking about youtube where thousands of 78's spin on turntables, 
sometimes accompanied by tasteful, intelligent, amorous pictures or 
movies; I'm thinking about i-tunes and Spotify and Allmusic where you 
search for a title and get a list of recordings made any time between 
1890 and now; some of these engines don't even have a filter to sort out

old or new recordings. All of them offer music samples or whole tunes.
Millions of kids are confronted with vintage recordings attractively 
exposed - one in a thousand perhaps gets the idea: hey, I'd like to try 
that myself!


We should be happy about this.
That wouldn't have happened without the digital revolution - that's a 
paradox, but true, nevertheless.
Kristjan