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Re: Alfor's Rarities
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 2:40 am
by fleubis
alfor wrote:fleubis wrote:Alfor, what an astonishing rare collection of music. You have connections in the musical world people like me only dream about. What is even more mysterious is how you choose the pieces.
I am sure they would have shipped to Panama, too - but it might have been slightly more expensive than to Germany (I paid a mere 15 Euros shipping fee for the whole batch!!!).
I'll start scanning and posting probably next week (subject to the revocation by Mr. Henbury-Ballan) . After gross examination 60 to 80 percent are worth to be given away to the eyes and hands of pianophilians (and Possible Moles 
).
Alfred, I expect you have vast resources in antiquarian music, yet you are able to sort through these limitless quantities of useless "hausmusik" gathering dust and extract many unknown masterpieces, unknown master editors, premiere editions, etc. We will never see the end of the digitizing of all such musick in my lifetime, but am satisfied to know that even now my digital library contains enough masterpieces to revel in for the rest of my life......and yet there is more to come!
And... the joy of experiencing a new piece for the first time.
Re: Alfor's Rarities
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:31 am
by phikfy
Oh Alfor, your stack of scores stuns me!! Such a collection of rarities and beautiful antique version. Can't wait to see your scan. Curious about the Axman, the Doubrava and Stanislav Sonatas...
Re: Alfor's Rarities
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 6:11 pm
by alfor
Re: Alfor's Rarities
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 6:56 pm
by fleubis
Thanks for the list, Alfor. I took the time to go through everything and found I did indeed download all your great scores from the old pianophilia. Yet your mediafire account has a few more which apparently are not in the old or new Pianophilia. (Seems I'll never get caught up!)
This is a good time to remind everyone to back their digital libraries up in multiple locations. As I am approaching 12,000 scores, my own library is archived on 3 different hard drives totaling 34gb and most recently have just added 2 USB thumb drives. Hard drives don't last forever and neither do SSD's (as I recently found out!).
Re: Alfor's Rarities
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 12:18 am
by alfor
fleubis wrote:Thanks for the list, Alfor. I took the time to go through everything and found I did indeed download all your great scores from the old pianophilia. Yet your mediafire account has a few more which apparently are not in the old or new Pianophilia. (Seems I'll never get caught up!)
This is a good time to remind everyone to back their digital libraries up in multiple locations. As I am approaching 12,000 scores, my own library is archived on 3 different hard drives totaling 34gb and most recently have just added 2 USB thumb drives. Hard drives don't last forever and neither do SSD's (as I recently found out!).
Backup on 8 DVDs (archival quality) and the issue is over... 
Re: Alfor's Rarities
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 2:16 am
by fleubis
Backup on 8 DVDs (archival quality) and the issue is over...
Currently I'm reorganizing my files into a folder system like we see on IMSLP and this will make DVD archiving easier.
Too much work has gone into our score collections to let anything happen to them.
Hopefully this PDF format will not become obsolete in our lifetime.
Re: Alfor's Rarities
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 11:34 am
by alfor
fleubis wrote:...Hopefully this PDF format will not become obsolete in our lifetime...
...and we'll have music scores available as holograms
(how do you enter fingerings into holograms??)...
Re: Alfor's Rarities
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 12:08 pm
by HullandHellandHalifax
alfor wrote:fleubis wrote:...Hopefully this PDF format will not become obsolete in our lifetime...
...and we'll have music scores available as holograms
(how do you enter fingerings into holograms??)...
with virtual imagery of course!
Re: Alfor's Rarities
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 2:14 pm
by alfor
For your convenience I am providing the mediafire links for the missing alfor scores (see above posting).
Re: Alfor's Rarities
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 2:32 pm
by fleubis
alfor wrote:fleubis wrote:...Hopefully this PDF format will not become obsolete in our lifetime...
...and we'll have music scores available as holograms
(how do you enter fingerings into holograms??)...
Holograms? It's hard enough to enter fingerings in PDF's. This is why I go through a lot of toner cartridges and have a dedicated "Alfor Shelf" in my library. We are saving a lot of trees with these PDF's, but a few still must be cut down.