[78-L] "new" records

[Malcolm]

Hi Inigo!
Nice hearing from you and nice to know you're still on 78L. Most 
everyone else seems
to have migrated over to Facebook nowadays.
I have the same filing/sorting problems and solutions you do. With 
10,000 + 78s I couldn't
find things anymore.
How I sort depends on the collection - jazz, blues, Hawaiian, general 
pop, etc. - I am
indexing.
I do my Hawaiian 78s by label, consecutively numbered by issue number 
for each label.
I generally do all other categories by artist. I don't do any by song 
title. Those are easy
enough to search within my two main sorting categories.
I do most of my indexing in Word, a common PC word processor.
The flip side to all this is of course trying to find rogue index 
listings within a collection.
I had a buyer who insisted I was holding out on him because I could not 
find a couple
of rare records I had listed in my index but could not find anywhere. 
And boy did I search!
I didn't sell them and forget to change the index and I still haven't 
found them.
They're probably stashed somewhere "safe." Hah!
And I enjoy surprises when I find a record I hadn't listed for one 
reason or another. This
is particularly common in some of the earliest records I have in my 
collection, especially
when transferring from an old digital storage format to a newer one.
But isn't that one of the things that makes record collecting fun?
Sure it is! (Hah)
Stay in touch.
Best,
Mal

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On 12/15/2017 2:21 AM, Inigo Cubillo wrote:
> ​Hi, Mal...
> Glad for your find... I (hardly) manage a collection ​of >5,000 or so 78s,
> and I'm usually in the same situation. My home shelves hold some 3,000 78s,
> and I forget what I have. Of course I have a good index book, sorted
> alphabetically by ARTIST/title in the fashion of the old 78 catalogues.
> This index is done automatically (and updated frequently) using a mother
> database in an EXCEL sheet, which I maintain since 1996. Now it has 10,000
> registers (sides) and 28 columns (fields with data).
> I sometimes browse thru the catalogue and find things I didn't remember I
> already had. Also I like to browse thru the shelves, and this exercise also
> returns nice surprises from time to time. It's like having a record flea
> market at home...
> The catalogue updates ultimately I do them on PDF files and take them in my
> cell phone, so searching for any word or number is much easier. When buying
> records it is a great help to avoid repetitions... (LOL)
> Another source of enternteinment is the rest of records (2,000) that lie
> down in the basement. From time to time I take home any of the boxes to
> browse thru, and discover what little marvels I have forgotten down there...
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Inigo
> from Madrid, Spain.
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