Your collection

[Shapley]

I, also, am a Ceedeeholic. My growing collection has now overrun the shelf space in the library.

My library stereo sits on an the old organ bench that came with my Hammond Organ. I'm afraid I'm going to have to invest in a nice media cabinet that can hold my CD collection and provide a suitable home for the stereo. The organ bench can return to the basement, with the Hammond Organ that sits there, unused, in the dark spaces. I wish I knew how to play the thing....

Recent acquisitions:

Méhul: The Complete Symphonies

Méhul: Overtures

Mendelssohn: Twelve String Symphonies

V/R
Shapley

[Catmando]

Hi. My name's Navneeth, and I'm a ceedeeoholic.

All we need is our twelve steps, and maybe meetings.

Hi. My name's Selma, and I'm a ceedeeoholic.
Sadly, I'm also a fabriholic, and a yarnaholic. Not to mention the books, which outweigh the other addictions combined.

Let's come up, together, with a set of 12 steps for our ceedeeoholism.

[navneeth]

Hi, group.

A big discount/sale is going on at Landmark. (the store I usually buy from.) Unlike last year, there are no discounts on all CD's. But there were nice offers on Sony CDs, as you may have noticed from my list. And for the first time in the past 1.5 years or so, there was another person next to me at the Western Classical shelf for more than 5 seconds.

[navneeth]

Let's come up, together, with a set of 12 steps for our ceedeeoholism.

Record every CD with an unavoidable first track - Bolero. (Other options, like Peter and the Wolf, will also work.)

[Catmando]

12 steps for the Ceedeeoholic

1. We admitted we were powerless over the beauty of Classical Music, and that without it, our lives would become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Beethoven Radio request could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will over to the love of music, and to music stores like B&N and Amazon.

4. Made a searching and vigorous inventory count of our CD collections.

5. Admitted to HRH, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrong (we love music too much).

6. Were entirely ready to have DG & Naxos remove all the gaps in our CD collections.

7. Humbly asked HRH to play our requests.

8. Made a list of all composers whose music we have come to love, and became willing to make attempts to buy their compositions.

9. Made direct purchases of classical music for such composers wherever possible, except when to do so would injure our bank accounts or our credit ratings.

10. Continued to take inventory counts of our CD collections and when we were short on some composers' works, promptly admitted it and go out and make some more CD purchases.

11. Sought through listening and attending symphony orchestra live events to improve and enrich our lives and enhance our knowledge of music, praying only for the monetary funds necessary to feed our music buying addiction.

12. Having had a rude awakening upon checking our bank account balances, we tried to hold out buying any more music as long as we could, and then whine to our fellow ceedeeoholics that we want to add this and that to our collections.

[Catmando]

Let's come up, together, with a set of 12 steps for our ceedeeoholism.

Record every CD with an unavoidable first track - Bolero. (Other options, like Peter and the Wolf, will also work.)

Navneeth, this will not be a deterrent for our fellow ceedeeoholic, Selma.

[Shapley]

I'm just following my accountants advice. Several years ago he looked at my financial situation and suggested "putting some money into CD's" to improve my savings situation. I've put lots of money into CD's in the years since, but I can't see that my savings have benefitted....

V/R
Shapley

[navneeth]

I'm just following my accountants advice. Several years ago he looked at my financial situation and suggested "putting some money into CD's" to improve my savings situation. I've put lots of money into CD's in the years since, but I can't see that my savings have benefitted....

V/R
Shapley

*Groan*

[Catmando]

I'm just following my accountants advice. Several years ago he looked at my financial situation and suggested "putting some money into CD's" to improve my savings situation. I've put lots of money into CD's in the years since, but I can't see that my savings have benefitted....

V/R
Shapley

Did this accountant happen to work for Enron?

[Shapley]

Did this accountant happen to work for Enron?

Not sure, but I'm reasonably certain that he has stock in EMI...

[barfle]

Personally, I'm nuts about vinyl:



That's not to say that I don't have lots of CDs, DVDs, laser disks, cassettes, and probably the world's largest colletion of Teleplayer films.

[Catmando]

Well, I added a free CD to my collection, which I listened to last night.

We went to my sister's place yesterday for a BBQ, and my brother-in-law gave me a Mozart CD that he received in the mail as a free CD gift. I'm not sure if it was some kind of promotional thing or what?

It's from International Masters Publishers AB (IMP AB)

The Mozart CD is titled "The Classic Composers" Mozart Musical Masterpieces.

It has 11 tracks of what you might typically find on a 1 CD "Best of" Mozart, but with a few pieces of music I didn't have in my collection.

IMP - The Classic Composers

[Catmando]

Well, I added a free CD to my collection, which I listened to last night.

We went to my sister's place yesterday for a BBQ, and my brother-in-law gave me a Mozart CD that he received in the mail as a free CD gift. I'm not sure if it was some kind of promotional thing or what?

It's from International Masters Publishers AB (IMP AB)

The Mozart CD is titled "The Classic Composers" Mozart Musical Masterpieces.

It has 11 tracks of what you might typically find on a 1 CD "Best of" Mozart, but with a few pieces of music I didn't have in my collection.

IMP - The Classic Composers

The most interesting thing about this CD is it comes in a booklet CD box that includes a brief biography, turning point, life and times, in context, listener's guide, influences, test your knowledge quiz and further interest sections. All of which I thought was quite unique.

This would be a great gift for someone just starting into classical music, perhaps a child or classical newbie. A great way to introduce the classics in my opinion. Anyhow, it's a free Mozart CD, and that's the best part!

[BigJon@Work]

and probably the world's largest colletion of Teleplayer films.

Allright, you forced me to Google it, and I'm stil not sure what these are, as there are many machines called teleplayers. Tell me everything!

[Shapley]

I finally had the opportunity to listen to Beethoven's Ninth on my Kripps set (the $10 tin box). The audio quality is not bad. The original performances were recorded in or about 1960.

It was nice to hear the symphony performed as I first heard it on my old Murray Hill set back in the '70s. No doubt other composers have done it better, but I have a soft spot for this one!

V/R
Shapley

[jamiebk]

I guess if you don't like the CD's you can always use the tin for a Christmas fruitcake.

[Catmando]

I guess if you don't like the CD's you can always use the tin for a Christmas fruitcake.

[navneeth]

I finally had the opportunity to listen to Beethoven's Ninth on my Kripps set (the $10 tin box). The audio quality is not bad. The original performances were recorded in or about 1960.

It was nice to hear the symphony performed as I first heard it on my old Murray Hill set back in the '70s.

Glad you enjoyed it. The version I have is from the 50's, in fact the first stereo version of the symphony, but the auido is quite good.

No doubt other composers have done it better, but I have a soft spot for this one!

Do you mean Brahms' first, or did you mean to say conductors?

[Shapley]

I guess if you don't like the CD's you can always use the tin for a Christmas fruitcake.

Good idea. Although I don't like fruitcake, I could always use if for a Christollen or for one of my mocha cakes.

Do you mean Brahms' first, or did you mean to say conductors?

Yes, I meant to say conductors. I won't change it, though, since my signature remains "Quod scripsi, scripsi".

[barfle]

and probably the world's largest colletion of Teleplayer films.

Allright, you forced me to Google it, and I'm stil not sure what these are, as there are many machines called teleplayers. Tell me everything!

Being the old coot that I am, I have an interest in what might be termed "antique" video equipment, and the Motorola Teleplayer is one of the first products intended for consumer use as a video playback system. It used a process called "flying spot scanning" in order to convert a film into a video signal.

Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3, Picture 4

I didn't think these pictures were all that wide, but the BBB wouldn't let me link directly to them - got the "650 pixels wide" limit message.

I have about 20 films and 2 players. I've had an active search on eBay for them for three years, and only one came up for auction in that time. I tried to work out a film swap with the eventual winner, but he stopped communicating with me. Maybe his didn't work.

To the best of my knowledge, it was never available in stores. I got mine through a surplus house sometime around 1982.