Klarinet Archive - Posting 000246.txt from 2008/11

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Organizing your music library.
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:51:31 -0500

colors--good idea.

I have about 28 feet of music floor to ceiling. For part of it, the Hastings Band library, we had it on steel shelves 19" deep and 12 feet long in my incredibly narrow office....

It took me YEARS to realize that if I had shelves made TWENTY inches wide, we could put the music in from two sides! That halved the shelf feet right there. The next bright idea was to have a gondola made with wheels. The shelf is about 7 1/2 feet high and 4 feet long, and that magic depth of 20 inches. I am going to have another one made 3 feet long. That gives me 14 feet verses the 12 feet we originally had along the wall and these are on big wheels and can be rolled to any place in the room! It took me many years to see that obvious solution to shelving.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael <michael@-----.us>
>Sent: Nov 17, 2008 3:03 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Organizing your music library.
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>Roger Hewitt wrote:
>> An interesting system I have experience of uses a set of categories (A is
>> Overtures, B selections, C waltzes, D suites, E Marches, ...) and then
>> numbering within that (initially alphabetically, but then chronologically by
>> when bought!). This system automatically gives a location since the music is
>> stored in the alpha-numeric order, but sometimes is it a B-selection or
>> E-marches for a selection of marches? And the miscellaneous section tends to
>> get a bit full, if you don't categorize strongly. The advantage is that if
>> you want an overture to start a concert, they are all together to browse for
>> inspiration.
>
>If you go that route it is very helpful to use a different color file folder
>for each category type. Then if someone goes to file something the color of
>folders in the drawer will provide a large hint if you're in the right or
>wrong cabinet.
>
>--
> Michael Rasmussen
> http://www.jamhome.us/
> Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity
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