[78-L] Average age

[David Lennick]

I believe Sammy Jones is under 30. And he collects transcriptions!

dl

On 11/11/2010 4:46 PM, Don Chichester wrote:
>
> You are SO right, Cary!
>
> Don
>
>> From: soundthink at live.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:26:15 -0800
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Average age
>>
>>
>> I always maintain, that whatever kind of sound quality that you get from beautifully restored CDs or MP3s, there is still nothing like the aesthetic pleasure of hefting a 78, placing it on your turntable, and PLAYING IT - the exact object that was manufactured decades ago. This kind of experience is what makes us all collectors. It's what makes the magic happen. There is no replacing or duplicating it.
>>
>> Cary Ginell
>>
>>> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:23:03 -0700
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Average age
>>>
>>> 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