Re: Data Base Rollography
By Robbie Rhodes
Rick, your collection is certainly big enough to merit making a list. I had a scary fire in my garage a year ago in which several borrowed Duo-Art rolls incurred water damage. Fortunately the owner was sympathetic and only new boxes were needed. I should have had a complete list for the insurance claim, showing the condition of the roll, in order to establish replacement and/or market value.
I _store_ the list (the data base) as a simple text file with either the tab or backslash delimiter. It is easily viewed and operated upon in a text processing program, where I can remove leading and trailing spaces, etc., and of course I can replace the delimiter with other delimiters as necessary.
My favorite data base manager (for manageing, not "pretty-printing") is on the PC: "NutShell" and its successors, "NutPlus" and "NutUltra". This program is relational and easily and quickly looks up data in other data bases. Usually I have three separate data files open: piano rolls, phonograph recordings, and a big sheet music file which is my "master" source of correct titles and composers.
I'll send you the Fats Waller Rollography separately -- let me know how it works out for you! Best regards,
Robbie Rhodes
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