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>Subject: Media Release
>Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:33:46 -0500
>Organization: Starr-Gennett Foundation
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>Media Release
>
>Contact: Elizabeth Surles, Project Coordinator
>
>Address: <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
>"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />33 South
7th St., Richmond,
>IN 47374
>
>Email: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
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>Phone: (765) 962-1511
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>Website: www.starrgennett.org
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>Starr-Gennett Foundation Awarded $43,700 to Save Recordings
>
>For Immediate Release: MARCH 24, 2003, RICHMOND, IN: The
Starr-Gennett
>Foundation is pleased to announce the impending launch of a grant-funded
>project to digitize 400 Gennett and related subsidiary label 78 rpm
>phonograph records in the Foundation s collection. Upon the project
s
>completion in the summer of 2006, the recordings will be available
through
>a searchable online archive. The bulk of the project will be
funded by a
>generous $38,000 grant from the Recording Academy. The Wayne
County,
>Indiana Foundation also awarded a $5,500 grant to fund the remainder
of
>the project.
>
>This is absolutely fantastic! exclaims the Foundation s Project
>Coordinator Elizabeth Surles. The project will greatly aid our
efforts to
>save Richmond, Indiana s rich musical heritage in a very direct and
>accessible way. Our collection of recordings contains a good
sampling of
>the wide musical variety on Gennett and related labels like Champion
and
>Starr, and now we ll be better able to share this historic music with
the
>public. The support of the Recording Academy and the Wayne County
>Foundation really points to the importance of saving this history.
>
>The project involves several steps. The records must first be
carefully
>cleaned. Once cleaned, the 78 rpm shellac phonograph recordings
are
>placed in archival-quality sleeves and carefully transferred to a digital
>format. Many of the recordings to be transferred were originally
made
>without electricity, and the transfer process necessitates special
audio
>equipment designed for archival sound transfer. CD copies of
the
>recordings will be made and added to the Foundation s permanent
>collection. These CD copies will be accessible through the Foundation
s
>office in Richmond and through the Foundation s website via streamed
sound
>files, which will be searchable and offered free of charge.
>
>The bulk of the funding will come from the National Academy of Recording
>Arts and Sciences National Professional Education Committee, which
is part
>of the GRAMMY Foundation. The Recording Academy offers grants
for efforts
>that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded
>sound heritage of the Americas. The Wayne County, Indiana Foundation
>granted funds from the Jeffers Family Fund, the Lilly Fund, and the
>Kleinknecht Endowment. When asked about the project, President
and CEO of
>the Wayne County, Indiana Foundation, Charles Ball said, The Wayne
County
>Foundation is happy to be able to help the Starr-Gennett Foundation
>preserve and make this material available to people around the world.
>
>Richmond, Indiana s historic Starr Piano Company recorded, pressed,
and
>distributed some of the best early jazz, blues, old-time country, and
>gospel records in the 1920s and 30s on Gennett and other labels. More
>information is available at
><http://www.starrgennett.org>www.starrgennett.org. Contact
Elizabeth
>Surles for pictures and sound clips.
>
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