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I Just Inherited 4,000 LPs

My longtime friend just passed away, leaving me his 4,000 LPs. 

I haven't had time to really look, I know there is a ton of jazz. He lived in New Orleans for many years, we went to the music festival together twice, listened together here often over the years. The LP's are only 5 minutes from here.

And serious wood library shelving, each self-contained 3 ft wood shelf has a partial back and recessed metal tracks for adjustable metal dividers. They can be put individually on top of any shelf, I will leave the too tall uprights, put the shelves into new wire shelving.

Our house is a small split level with an internal garage full of 42 years of junk as well as our existing 2,500 LPs.

OMG, what a project to rearrange, discard long dusty stuff, (Donna’s 100% on board) assemble new wire shelving to condense stuff we keep and new wire shelving to fit the LPs here.

Then: how to merge them with my 2,500 LPs which are alphabetical. Logistical Options keep me up at night.

Twenty 3 ft shelves, I will use 3 bankers boxes per shelf to get them off the shelves, leave 60 boxes over there, get the shelves over here on the wire shelving, finally the LPs over here. I believe his are generally alphabetical, perhaps Donna and her twin sister Effie can find what's out of order over there while I am working here.

A labor of love, and a lifetime memory and gratitude to my friend Roderick.

Elliott




elliottbnewcombjr
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pindac
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With Good Quality Clean Vinyl, your friend who kindly thought of you.
Indirectly offered you the opportunity to try out at least Four Cartridges, while you audition the gifted collection.
reubent
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Elliott.

I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you find great joy in going through your friend's record collection.
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fuzztone
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Have fun. What kind of LP cleaning did he employ?

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4000 albums, that's 111 days of music. That's a lot at 20 minutes per side. 
elliottbnewcombjr OP
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Did I forget to mention we drank some beer together?  I have one of his favorite beer glasses, DUFF BEER, I think of him every day.

My son should plan for all this music when he does an addition. And a nicer listening space for those JSE Infinite Slope Model 2's I already gave him.

It's not just the LPs. Some may remember, I quit smoking and spent all my tobacco money on music, starting at $700./year 32 years ago, I gave myself a rise in pay each year, whatever a carton a week adds up to, now over $4,000. NJ is thinking of a big hike

https://fortune.com/2020/02/25/new-jersey-cigarette-prices/

The CD era, over 3,000 of them. I bought leather binders from Herrington's, extra deep pages that fit both the disc and booklet,8 per page; tossed the cases, got em down to three 3 ft shelves, also alphabetical, I left spaces and can simply add pages. I'm done buying CD's unless ......

Part of that tobacco money was spent on Teac R2R decks and 500 pre-recorded reel to reel tapes (already sold about 150 of them).

I need to find a way to sell without cleaning and testing, perhaps simply sell ones with with no obvious damage, refund to anyone unhappy. So far, sold 150 tapes, 50 lps: less than half a dozen mishaps I gave refunds for (mostly USPO destruction).
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