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Seek Unsalable Music Rolls to Preserve the Music
By Terry Smythe

This is an appeal to people who are driving to Chicago for the AMICA
Convention next week.  Assuming space available in your vehicle, I
would be most grateful if you would bring along all your unplayable,
unsalable, damaged music rolls.

The objective is to make modest repairs to each, sufficient to acquire
one last pass to capture their content before they fully self-destruct.
Over the past three years that I have been scanning music rolls, I have
good success is making sufficient repairs to be able to salvage the
content of a roll that would otherwise end up as kindling.

It's not that I have a real affection for damaged rolls -- it's just
that it is dramatically easier and cheaper to bring boxes of "scrap
paper" through Canada Customs, at pennies per pound rather than dollars
per roll.

The vast majority of us have unplayable rolls in our collections, just
sitting there for no particular good reason, but can't ever be used.
Here's a good opportunity to possibly salvage some of these old rolls,
within the spirit and intent of archival preservation of music roll
content.

I'm driving to Chicago in my 2000 Dodge Grand Caravan, and will have
a fair amount of room to load up with these rolls.  Something to think
about.

Regards,
Terry Smythe
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
http://members.shaw.ca/smythe/rebirth.htm


(Message sent Tue 18 Jul 2006, 02:02:01 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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