We all have our favorite areas.

I have a letter sent to record companies in the very early 1950s from the
Vienna Symphony Orchestra listing the various levels of orchestras available
for recording. It includes prices with and without first chairs and much
other detail that goes to the very guts of the overseas recording business
that many American companies used to create the minor and some midsize LP
labels.

There is a great deal more that covers the evolution of the recording
business and which, combined with what others may have, should lead to a
proper appariasal of the history of the recording industry as a business,
which it is, first and foremost, and from whose many byproducts we all
benefit.

Anyway, there should be room for all of these things.

Links could be included to other, copywritten material such as the interview
with Rudy van Gelder that Tom Fine called attention to on this list
recently.

The field is so vast and intricate that I shudder to think of it being
vetted by those outside the know. I feel it should be an ARSC undertaking
with the understandiung that if, in the future ARSC folds, it be inherited
by another, suitable organization (the Music Library Association?)

Where do we start, ARSC officials? Isn't this part of the responsibility of
this organziation, according to its bylaws? Is there a mission statement?

Steve Smolian

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 6:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Need for document posting place

If we are to begin posting documents, please make the following priorities:


1) obscure American 78 rpm catalogs/supplements;
2) obscure American LP catalogs/supplements;
3) and 4) the same as above, European/Asian documents


Mike Gray