[78-L] Museum quality?

[Cary Ginell]

I call my collection an archive rather than a museum. A museum implies "look-but-don't-touch." An archive is something that will be used and I'm in my record room playing 78s every chance I get. That's what they're there for.

Cary Ginell

> From: rojoknox at metroeast.org
> Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 09:44:01 -0700
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Museum quality?
> 
> Greetings from FixitLand!
> 
> Steven C. Barr wrote:
> 
> > Sadly we don't yet have a "78 rpm museum" (other than my
> > half-vast shellac archive///?!)...!
> 
> What-chu talkin' 'bout, Steven? All of us hoary old 78 collectors  
> have "78 rpm museums." Some of those "museums" are more private than  
> others, perhaps...but quite a few of us apparently welcome visitors.  
> Some "museums" are larger than others (mine contains about 25,000  
> items; yours is, so you state, about half-again larger; Lennick's  
> is...well, an order of magnitude larger...). But "museums" they are!
> 
> And how many museums (regular ones) out there, if they indeed had 78  
> records on display, would allow the treasures to be dismounted from  
> the walls and actually Played And Enjoyed (tm)?
> 
> > What we need is a physical
> > version of the "Abrams Files"...I am working on this...!
> 
> Several people are. Ty Settlemier's Online Discography Project is  
> based on the Abrams Files. I am currently "massaging" all that data  
> in Excel spreadsheets. (And yes, it requires a LOT of massaging. The  
> Abrams Files are, by design, hampered by abbreviations and omissions,  
> and do contain more than a few out-and-out errors.)
> 
> This is getting away from the original aim of this thread, but that  
> might be a good thing.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> 
> Joe
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