Just askin': Has any attention been paid to getting unworn or un-noisy
sides for this laudable preservation effort? When I read just now that your
source was a public library where patrons would have been borrowing them
and/or playing them on any sort of machine, it made me wonder. By the way,
are you in Boston?
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Brewster Kahle <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> for the fanatics (well, like me), we have another 6,000 78rpm sides up
> on archive.org as part of the Great 78 Project. (now 74k digitized
> <https://archive.org/details/georgeblood> total)
>
> I was able to find dates for 91% of them, and volunteers have started on
> others.
>
> Lots of Victors and Deccas, almost all from the Boston Public Library
>
> link to the new ones:
>
>
> https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?and%5B%5D=
> publicdate%3A%5B2018-06-10+TO+*%5D&sin=&sort=-publicdate
>
> onward!
>
> -brewster
>
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