From: "Doug Henkle" <[log in to unmask]>
xxx-2010 -0400, Michael Biel wrote:
>>  On 8/26/2010 10:48 AM, Doug Henkle wrote:
>>>      I have been told that every 78 that ever existed has been 
>>> documented somewhere on-line and/or in print.
>>WOW!!  Who told you that lie????
> http://www.78rpmrecord.com/avrl.htm
>      On this page, in 1996, Kurt Nauck wrote:
> "Imagine having instant access to a complete listing of every 78rpm and 
> cylinder recording made in the United States!"
>      I was wrong by not restricting my statement to "every U.S. 78".  This 
> was the stated goal of the AVRL (aka AND), and as I understand it, the 
> goal was almost accomplished before the 1993-2006 project was abandoned? 
> What I can't find is, what happened to the massive amount of information 
> accumulated in the AVRL?  Is it accessible anywhere by anyone?
>
These listings are usually known as the "Abrams Files"...Steve Abrams seems
to have put copies of them together...and they WERE (until they 
disappeared?!)
downloadable from Ron Fial's site...?! I am currently striving to 
correct/improve
these files...since I have purchased a LOT of "non-jazz-or-dance-band" 78's
from "Nickjay" over the last couple of years...and as well have acquired a
number of such 78's as Lennick's "junk!"

The problem is that there are/were a number of 78's which were never put
into discographies (i.e. hundreds of Henry Burr recordings?!). These files
include AFAIK around 250,000 records...but do NOT include the MANY
post-WWII 78's (which would be a CHALLENGE to compile?!)!). I haven't
yet taken the time to check my changes against Ty Settlemeir's online
listings...?!

Since I don't actively accumulate later 78's, my "new improved" Abrams
Files will still be rather incomplete...?!

Steven C. Barr