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Posted by Glen on July 9, 2011
According to my logs, I have a fairly substantial number of people coming to the website every day - I can't imagine why!
There simply isn't much here, and sadly, I doubt there ever will be again. I know many people are hoping I'll start posting new restorations of recordings from my 78rpm record collection, but that ain't gonna happen. I DO plan on creating a new line of audio CDs of my restorations, but they're quite a ways off.
What *is* here, and what I envision becoming the main attraction of this site, are scans of books, magazines, photos and catalogs from the 20s and 30s from my collection, all more-or-less related to Hot-Dance and Vintage Jazz music. I've recently added scans of a 1928 Cole-Dunas mail order catalog (with lots of radios, musical instruments, phonos and records) and a complete scan of Frank Skinner's Modern Method of Arranging for Dance Orchestras (1928). I will soon be adding the October 1928 issue of "The Metronome" (featuring Hal Kemp), a book of hot breaks for saxophone by Jack Pettis and the Robert Marine "hot trumpet" instruction book.
The down-side to this, so far, anyway, is that these are scans I've done over the last 15 years, and the quality wanders all over the place. Generally speaking, the most recent scans are better quality than the older ones, but frankly, I just need to jump back in and re-scan *everything*. *That's* gonna take a while, so I'm afraid you'll have to make do with what's there. I do plan on making PDF files of ALL the scans available for download, again, once I've re-scanned everything.
I'm moving slowly, and I know that's frustrating to some folks - I apologize, but please remember that this site is a HOBBY, and *anything* you get from the site is a GIFT, from me to you. :-)
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