[78-L] Attention, fellow "fetishizers"

[David Lennick]

I used to refer to myself as an audio archeologist. A fetishizer sounds like 
something you spray after a fetishist has left the room. (There was one 
collector I dreaded driving..had to make sure my local service station had 
given me a free air freshener with my oil change in time for our next 
encounter. GLADE also works well and is a little more subtle.)

That said, I know what these groups are going through. I'm being paid an 
insulting hourly rate to transfer a huge private collection of gospel 78s and 
black labels..the label scanning and tagging takes as long as actually doing 
the transfers (which are raw). But hey it's work. And you find the occasional 
gem, like a 20s group whose harmonies sound like the choral sections in Porgy 
and Bess..which is when you find that the group's leader and Porgy's choral 
director were the same woman.

dl

On 11/1/2013 5:37 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> I sort of object to being called a fetishizer - I prefer "archivist."
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/11/01/242155743/holding-music-history-in-your-hands-why-archives-matter
> Cary Ginell