The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

Inigo wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2024 6:43 pm Yes, they sometimes give you the broken ones for free, especially if you also buy other good records.
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I'm lately revising my discarded records and rescuing to the collection 95% of the ones in the pile I'm examining right now... It's impossible to let them away... Even done of them are really good... What was I thinking of, me stupid ..?

Musical tastes change over time. Ninety percent of what I like to listen to now would not have interested me at all 20 or 30 years ago. To think of what I might have passed on back then

Right, and in my case ---don't know if it's general--- my tastes always increase... Instead of narrowing or getting into more specialised fields, they widen everyday... one is capable of understanding more means of musical expression than before.
What's more, there is the variable speed issue. Have you never experimented that one record you didn't like at all, one day you decide to change the playing speed and discover it's a great rendition? It has happened to me with several records. Just insistence on playing it, to discover why it sounds horrible, and suddenly the light shines, and it was just a wrong speed!
Just yesterday it happened to me with Jack Hylton rendition of Back to the heather and Blue Eyes, from B5477, and the voice of actor Paul England who sings the songs. The voice sounded horrible, and I discovered I was playing it too fast... or it was recorded too slow. It improved a lot!

I'm currently going through my collection and thinning the herd significantly. It's a lot of weight to hold onto if you're not ever going to spin it on a turntable and I don't have enough time in the world to play everything I have more than once (if even that much).

I sold a batch of 20 Decca records and a batch of 20 RCA Victor records on FB marketplace and just threw in another 100 records. I realize I'm not a library, I don't HAVE to keep everything
that comes across my doorstep just because I don't already have it. Some labels I'm particular to though and will hang onto them even if there's no real listenable/monetary value. Baby steps, baby steps!

Orchorsol wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 3:54 pm

kirtley2012 wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 2:52 pm I invite everyone that visits to sit on my Jimmy Shands, he gets right on my wick haha

Mine too!

Being a huge Richard Thompson fan, I've happily come across a couple of Jimmy Shands 78s on Beltona and kept every one... not for listening

A friend of mine in Berlin took a bunch of 78's he found broken and made a huge rectangular collage from all of the "label" parts. Many colours, very nice looking.

I went through my entire collection a couple of years ago and marked those that were to be disposed of. But I can't seem to face physically pulling them out and then going through the process of re-cataloguing the remainder! Then I'd have to find a buyer for the rejected discs..............

Update.
I simply decided to shuffle records on the shelves, making room for the 'uglies' all together in one of the shelves, separated from the rest. I find myself every now and then playing records from the 'uglies' shelves, as usual, trying to confirm which ones to discard... and I cannot discard any of them for one or other reason.