Recent NPR piece on 78 collectors

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Recent NPR piece on 78 collectors

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"Music Journalist Chronicles The 'Wild Obsessive Hunt' For Rare 78 RPM Records"

http://tinyurl.com/nwvtavl

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Nice link. Thanks for posting it.

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I've ordered her book from Amazon.

I also sent the link to a good friend here, now in his 90s. His father was a talent scout for Paramount and recruited a number of their blues singers. Unfortunately my friend has none of the old recordings.

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Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume's Laws of Collecting
1. Space will expand to accommodate an infinite number of possessions, regardless of their size.
2. Shortage of finance, however dire, will never prevent the acquisition of a desired object, however improbable its cost.
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