We continue others in different ways, and this is a good way. It will also make your memory of friendship more alive and immediate.
Life force is forever.
Life force is forever.
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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rpeluso and annika Thank you for your comments, I hope to continue earning your respect. When travel resumes, I'm only one hour outside NYC, if in the area, you could come here, or perhaps we could meet here: https://www.turntablelab.com/pages/our-stores |
Well I've known Elliott long enough that I know he will get good use out of these records. I talked to him last week and when he told me about this all I could think of is how much room it will take. My first suggestion was to make room in your garage. LOL It will be a huge task but in the end it will be worth it. Lots of keepers I'm sure and a lot to sell off and I'm sure more than a few pleasant "discoverys" hiding in that collection. When he told me about his friend and his career I wished I had had a chance to get to know him, sounds like he was an interesting fellow. So Elliott, any luck finding some young bucks to help move all this stuff yet? BillWojo |
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