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The Current State of Our Preservation Efforts via Your Friends at DUST-TO-DiGiTAL:

As 2018 draws to a close, we wanted to give you an update on the work our nonprofit Music Memory has been doing. So far, almost 50,000 recordings from 78 RPM records have been digitized and preserved for posterity.

Looking ahead to 2019, we are continuing our work with collectors whose records we plan to transfer digitally, and we are in discussions with several outlets that can assist us with building the database so that listeners and researchers will be able to access the recordings easily.

If you are in a position to make a donation, your contribution would be greatly appreciated! Music Memory is a 501(c)(3) organization, so any amount you give is tax deductible. If you would like to learn more about our mission, you can visit our website and watch our new video.
Music Memory’s mission is to preserve audio recordings for present and future generations. We are continuing the work started by the collectors and researchers in the 1950s and ’60s. We share their passion to keep the history of our musical heritage from being forgotten and are committed to preventing that from happening.

As of 2018, we have digitized more than 49,000 recordings on location at the homes of some of the world’s most prominent record collectors.

Our goal is to build a database complete with audio, discographical information, artist and composer biographies, song lyrics and notation. Our hope for this database is that it will serve as a musical Rosetta Stone for future generations by showing the links and cross-influences of the many musical styles captured on phonograph records in the first half of the 20th century. While the database is being constructed, we have been able to supply digital recordings to discographers, writers, and publishers such as Bear Family, Dust-to-Digital, Omnivore, and Oxford American.

In July 2011, Music Memory’s application for tax exempt status was granted by the Internal Revenue Service. Music Memory is exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to Music Memory are deductible under section 170 of the Code.