[78-L] 78-L Digest, Vol 127, Issue 10

Tue Apr 9 16:33:35 PDT 2019

Inigo,

Stumlbing into magic is the best way to justify a penchent for dawdling and
procrastingating, and finding what would be lost to now once again reveal
to the world. Nice moments--not often, but when they happen smiles abound
and bragging begins,.

well done.

Dennis

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> Wishes are only wishes but dreaming is free. We people with a strong
> imaginative component never get tired of dreaming, and thus, never get
> bored. Sometimes dreams come true, and if experience shows but one thing in
> support of dreaming and wishing, it is this unbeatable truth: anything can
> happen, and specially for a collector of old 78s, anything can pop up
> anyplace anytime. It's a sort of scarce and unreliable source for record
> collectors, but amazingly, for all its uncertainty and serendipity, a real
> real treasure, if you keep your eyes wide opened.?
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> Last November I happen to go with my loved one to the usual place, ten
> minutes walking away from home, for the usual Saturday evening beer and
> food, and our doses of humble fun and chatting with neighbour friends. It
> happened that we were a bit early, so we decided to go first for a short
> walk by the streets around the place, before entering the bar for our
> refreshments.?
> There was the avenue, solitary at these evening hours, and there were the
> empty benches along the sidewalk. Empty... all but one. In Madrid these
> late times, there is a blessed non-spoken consensus among certain 'careful'
> loving people, about what to do when you want to discard old books and the
> like. You dump into the container the usual rubbish, old furniture, etc.,
> but things that are likely to be of certain interest for others, as books,
> you make instead a careful pile of them on the floor beside the trash bin,
> or on a nearby bench.?
>
> So there we were, and what was there, carefully piled on a street bench
> seat beside a trash container? A bunch of LPs. Wife shouted me: records!!!
> But I was already there browsing among a big bunch of LPs of what seemed an
> old collection coming from a church or a religious college, for they were
> mostly LPs of hymns and some regional music. While browsing, collector's
> eyes spotted very fast some nude records, no jacket, wider grooves and
> heavier material... you know. Among the LPs there were a dozen 78s, mostly
> late thirties'-early forties' spanish Odeon 10" pressings of hymns and
> christmas carols, but also some other stuff, like three Path? hill-and-dale
> records (one broken, what a pity), and one old interesting spanish
> Gramofono (HMV) record, a late teens' re-issue in double--sided form of two
> older single sided recordings. A 12" beauty, green label, gold lettering,
> full colour Nipper. It contains two band selections by the good old spanish
> 'Banda del Real Cuerpo de Guardias
>   Alabarderos', a nice group whose recordings are very good. Two
> recordings dated?1909-1911. A record that some spanish kind-of Nauck (
> www.carlosmb.com) prices at no less than 50 euro...!?
>
> Keep your eyes wide opened.?
>
> And now the psychoilogic torture... What could I have found if I only
> happened to pass by an hour earlier...? What more is outta dere waiting...?
> I should spend some saturday evenings strolling the streets and peeping
> through rubbish piles and trash containers...! Actually I ALWAYS peep into
> trash containers when I spot them in the street in front of a house where a
> major upgrading is being carried on. There is the remote possibility that
> old heavy things like piles of 78s laid there abandoned in the empty house
> when proprietors moved away. The pity is that if there are any, these
> things go first into the trash bin when workers come in, so if they were
> there, they are likely at the bottom, under the pile of construction
> debris, old doors and windows, bricks and pannels, and the like...?
>
> Inigo, from these days rainy Madrid, Spain.
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