MUSiCMEMORY.ORG by way of Your Associates at DUST-TO-DiGiTAL

The Present State of Our Preservation Efforts by way of Your Associates at DUST-TO-DiGiTAL:

As 2018 attracts to a detailed, we wished to offer you an replace on the work our nonprofit Music Reminiscence has been doing. To date, nearly 50,000 recordings from 78 RPM data have been digitized and preserved for posterity.

Looking forward to 2019, we’re persevering with our work with collectors whose data we plan to switch digitally, and we’re in discussions with a number of retailers that may help us with constructing the database in order that listeners and researchers will have the ability to entry the recordings simply.

If you’re ready to make a donation, your contribution could be significantly appreciated! Music Reminiscence is a 501(c)(3) group, so any quantity you give is tax deductible. If you want to be taught extra about our mission, you may go to our web site and watch our new video.

Music Reminiscence’s mission is to protect audio recordings for current and future generations. We’re persevering with the work began by the collectors and researchers within the Nineteen Fifties and ’60s. We share their ardour to maintain the historical past of our musical heritage from being forgotten and are dedicated to stopping that from taking place.

As of 2018, we’ve digitized greater than 49,000 recordings on location on the houses of a few of the world’s most outstanding report collectors.

Our objective is to construct a database full with audio, discographical data, artist and composer biographies, music lyrics and notation. Our hope for this database is that it’ll function a musical Rosetta Stone for future generations by exhibiting the hyperlinks and cross-influences of the numerous musical kinds captured on phonograph data within the first half of the twentieth century. Whereas the database is being constructed, we’ve been capable of provide digital recordings to discographers, writers, and publishers equivalent to Bear Household, Mud-to-Digital, Omnivore, and Oxford American.

In July 2011, Music Reminiscence’s software for tax exempt standing was granted by the Inner Income Service. Music Reminiscence is exempt from Federal earnings tax below part 501(c)(3) of the Inner Income Code. Contributions to Music Reminiscence are deductible below part 170 of the Code.