Elliott.
I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you find great joy in going through your friend's record collection.
I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you find great joy in going through your friend's record collection.
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
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
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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). |
fuzztone
The random few I viewed the other day looked like they were played only once. I'll know more tomorrow. |
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