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Jeffpicks - Posted - 12/25/2024: 15:52:28
Hi All!
Gettin' old, can't play anymore, preparing to disburse my 30+ year collection of instruments and instructional material.
I'd like to start with asking you fine folks if there is any interest in some things before I trouble to post them.
I have a nearly complete collection of "Banjo Newsletter" from the early days of mimeograph sheets all the way up to perhaps 10-15 years ago. There's a lot of them!
Before I dig them out of the back of the closet, how much interest is there in this collection?
Thanks folks!
Edited by - Texasbanjo on 01/08/2025 04:18:42
Jeffpicks - Posted - 01/07/2025: 21:18:57
OK, so there's little to none! Thanks guys.
writerrad - Posted - 01/08/2025: 07:34:38
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:Banjo Newsletter is back in business as an online only enterprise after being knocked out for a year or two. Every single issue of BNL is available online and anyone can download it all with their modest subscription fee. You might want to try libraries.
Originally posted by Jeffpicks
Hi All!
Gettin' old, can't play anymore, preparing to disburse my 30+ year collection of instruments and instructional material.
I'd like to start with asking you fine folks if there is any interest in some things before I trouble to post them.
I have a nearly complete collection of "Banjo Newsletter" from the early days of mimeograph sheets all the way up to perhaps 10-15 years ago. There's a lot of them!
Before I dig them out of the back of the closet, how much interest is there in this collection?
Thanks folks!
Jeffpicks - Posted - 01/08/2025: 09:42:49
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Originally posted by writerrad
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You might want to try libraries.
Or the local recycling center.
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HighLonesomeF5 - Posted - 01/10/2025: 05:40:25
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Originally posted by writerrad
:Banjo Newsletter is back in business as an online only enterprise after being knocked out for a year or two. Every single issue of BNL is available online and anyone can download it all with their modest subscription fee. You might want to try libraries.
I tried to donate brand new college textbooks to local libraries, their only interest was to take them in and sell them at their book fair.
Joel Hooks - Posted - 01/10/2025: 06:55:45
You will find that most libraries do not want old paper magazines. I have been told from many aging collectors that they plan to donate their banjo sheet music/magazines/ephemera collections to a university library-- might as well save them the trouble and take it all right to the dump.
Unless there is a VERY large endowment (good old cash) donation to go with the collection-- they will refuse it. Best case scenario is that they take it and it sits uncataloged until a new archivist takes over where it will promptly be thrown in the dumpster.
The endowment will sometimes be encouragement for them to accept it as they will have the funds to sort and catalog it. But we are talking name on the side of the building donations.
Jim1 - Posted - 01/11/2025: 08:12:40
How much do you want for the newsletters?
tonygo - Posted - 01/11/2025: 08:41:56
Give the BNL stuff to someone going to Clifftop, etc. I bet they will be taken up pretty quick.
JS1219 - Posted - 01/11/2025: 10:37:39
Do you have any instruments?
