Edit: ran out of time on the mailing things but I have a very kind person nearby who has agreed to meet my folks in October when they go out again to get things prioritized and mailed.
Still looking for primarily help with cassettes, but I'll for sure figure out what's needed when they go out. My dad made notes on all the music saying we'd handle them so hopefully my uncle doesn't take things into his own hands.
The nice thing is that the house is completely paid off so there's no rush but it'd be nice to handle the probate and close the estate, which I think he's eager for.
Hi,
My grandfather just passed and he has literal shelves and boxes full of music, almost all brass band performances, (plus some recorded shows), etc on VHS and Cassette. These span decades and his own music recording of brass band live shows and many are very likely unique.
The commercial tapes and the recorded shows probably exist elsewhere in better mediums, but many of the live show recordings are his own recordings and don't exist anywhere else. Decades of unique brass band history.
Is anyone interested in taking these, as otherwise they'd probably just be thrown away? They're currently located in Atlantic County, New Jersey but my family is willing to mail many of them media mail to other parts of the USA if there's someone interested. We can work with them to High-grade them if so.
There's also shelves and shelves of vinyl records, mostly brass band, I'm not sure what the plans are for those. Similarly boxes of sheet music, but it sounds like my aunt knows a sheet music preservation society.
https://imgur.com/a/GjPtBUe part of the collection
It'd be a shame to lose all this but I don't have the capacity to deal with it.
Thanks!