Klarinet Archive - Posting 000253.txt from 2008/11

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Organizing your music library.
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:19:11 -0500

I am a huge fan of Wenger products. Exception is their ridiculous "posture chairs" and their music stands. Most of their stuff is fantastic.

In this particular room at 14 feet long and 9 feet wide at one end and 7 at the other, space was a real problem. It turned out that what had frustrated me for over 15 years was a crummy inch! By going to 20 inch instead of 19 inch wide shelves we got in music from 2 sides. That meant getting out of the mind set of running the shelves along the wall. The wheels allow us to run them anywhere. We can scrunch them up against the back or side wall, and I have more room for repairs and teaching.

Custom solutions can be very simple, or quite elegant. Sitting around talking to friends, you can come up with interesting ideas too. The open shelves give us air circulation in this beach town, for the old beach band library.

At home I use antique music cabinets, and an old WWII wooden filing cabinet. Being in Monterey I have to leave the filing cabinet drawers open a few inches. I also have huge stacks on my Hammond Organ. Can't have it all neat. I rescued the music section from the city library and have lots of stuff that might have been brought around the horn on shelves in my Saratoga store. MUCH better humidity control there and almost no dust.

In my old high school we had plenty of room and had some lovely sorting racks from Wenger. I sure miss those.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Anne Bell <bell@-----.net>
>Sent: Nov 18, 2008 5:53 PM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Organizing your music library.
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>For really huge applications Wenger has some great music racks that go
>in as a huge unit and the shelves needed can be pulled out .... So when
>not in use all the shelves are in use front and back and are all
>touching each other. Realizing that my explaination leaves much to be
>desired..... here's a link.
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>http://www.wengercorp.com/wgrprod.pgm?product=000000033&market=000000508
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>kurtheisig@-----.net wrote:
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>>colors--good idea.
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>>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....
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>>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.
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