[Phono-L] Young collectors? - A SURVEY!

Fri Jun 26 08:19:06 PDT 2009

I think that keeping it all in the family is a terrible waste.  God bless
those children who sell off all their parents treasures!
How can we expect the hobby to grow if there are no machines out there in
circulation?  Phonographs, if you will pardon the expression, 
are like manure;  They should be spread around encouraging young collectors
to grow.  Dumping a bunch of machines in a kids lap doesn't
make him/her a collector. Where's the thrill of the hunt, the heart pounding
discovery, the pride of doing things yourself?  Also, it 
may be time for us to sell off some of our duplicates, give others without
one a chance to enjoy.  Having six or ten of the same machine
doesn't make ones collection more interesting.  So cast your bread brothers.
Jay   

-----Original Message-----
From: phono-l-bounces at oldcrank.org [mailto:phono-l-bounces at oldcrank.org] On
Behalf Of Daniel Melvin
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 5:48 AM
To: Antique Phonograph List
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Young collectors? - A SURVEY!

Personally, I don't think too many collectors have other family members that

are interested. I would say in my experience it is not normally the case to 
have interested family member. Perhaps tolerant, but rarely interested. That

doesn't mean there are not new collectors out there. Having kids to turn a 
collection over to isn't necessary for the hobbly to succeed. Consider your 
personal situation when you got interested collecting phonographs. It's 
rather unusual for it to have involved a family member directly. But of 
course that happens too.

I have a lot of good collector friends and a few of them are young enough 
they will take up the torch when I'm dust. I'm not worried at all.

Dan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gregory caringi" <drgregc at msn.com>
To: "phono-l" <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 4:48 AM
Subject: RE: [Phono-L] Young collectors? - A SURVEY!

I have two daughters, 23 & 25.  They share many of the same interests as 
myself - music, photography - but never have shown any interest in the 
phonograph collection.  They admit to being embarrassed when I give guests 
"the tour."  I like to play the machines during the holidays when they are 
home.  They usually object.  Their only interest is preserving one machine 
each in my demise - the younger wants my VV-XVII since she helped clean it 
up, and the older wants my Columbia BD because the big nickel horn is 
"pretty."  The hobby is in trouble!

Greg Caringi

> From: Srsells1 at aol.com
> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:06:00 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Young collectors? - A SURVEY!
> To: phono-l at oldcrank.org
>
>
> In a message dated 6/24/2009 3:40:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> wilenzick at bellsouth.net writes:
>
> That's all very nice, and it's good to be optimistic about the future of
> the
> hobby. It would be interesting if someone or group would take a poll of:
> 1. How many phonograph collectors have children?, and
> 2. How many of these children are interested in the collections?
>
>
> In answer to Ray's question, I posted a quick survey at the URL below. If
> everyone will answer it (it's confidential), I'll be happy to share the
> results.
>
> Steve Ramm
>
> _http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB229CUDJ4UWX_
> (http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB229CUDJ4UWX)
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