Largest Vinyl Record Collection in the World
Paul Mawhinney of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has built what is considered the largest vinyl record collection in the world. In this video you can see footage of the sound archive, which is housed in a large storage warehouse. According to Mawhinney, the collection contains about 1 million albums and 1.5 million 45s. On top of all that, Mawhinney has cataloged the entire collection and maintains his collection in a searchable database. Good for you, Mawhinney!
As of 2009, Mawhinney has decided to retire and is looking for someone to purchase and preseve the collection, en masse. I would love to see that collection on Record Revolution. Maybe my collection will get there one day.
The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.
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The recent popularity of
The recent popularity of vinyl long play records comes from several sources. One might be the recent "vintage" status of vinyl LP records, as we are now are at least two generations removed from their heyday. Historically, the LP records were at the height of their popularity in the 1980s, then replaced to a large degree by the cassette tape, and, even more so later on by the CD and the mp3 or other compressed digital music formats and related mp3 players. The other source of the popularity of the vinyl records is the popularity of the rap music and its successor hip hop. The DJs who play this kind of music are famous for their sound manipulations such as "scratches", and transitions from one song to the other, which can only be properly implemented manually, using two turntables with vinyl LP records playing on both of them simultaneously.
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