[78-L] Museum quality

[DAVID BURNHAM]

Last year, on the way to the ARSC convention in New Orleans, I visited the Jimmy 
Rodgers museum in Meridian Mississippi.  They had several J.R. 78s on display 
and most of them were so scratched and abused that it was hard to tell the 
scratches from the grooves, (however I thoroughly enjoyed the visit and 
purchased a box set of all of J.R.'s recordings).  I also visited the family 
plot in the local cemetery which, ironically, brought the man to life as 
something more than just a name on records.

But getting back to the records, these records were in a museum so I guess they 
were museum quality.  Perhaps this description means to be looked at - not 
played.

db