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Report of the Month

• Period of the Report: January 25 - 31

Facts

Collection

• 35‘500 78 rpm gramophone records
• 32'000 LP records
• 2'000 Phonograph cylinders

People involved

• 1 Musicologist
• 1 Computer programmer (Coder)

Infrastructure

• Climated archive room in Hinwil ZH (Archive and digitization)
• Climated archive room in Romanshorn TG (Archive and digitization)
• Climated archive room in Wetzikon ZH (Archive)
• ELP Laser turntable LT-2XA without built-in preamp
• 2 Numark TTX turntables
• 2 RME Fireface 800 audio interfaces
• Tracer Technologies CTP-1000 (flat phono preamp)
• Graham Slee Era Gold V with PSU1 (RIAA equalizer phono preamp)
• Graham Slee Relevation M (RIAA equalizer phono preamp, switchable for 78 rpm records)
• Tapco S5 (Pair) + S10 Sub
• Mackie Big Knob Passive
• Palmer Monacor L Studio Controller
• Keith Monks Gemini MK III Dual RCM (record cleaning machine)
• Copy stand with Nikon D610 and Nikkor f/2.8 60 mm macro lens
• Balanced high quality audiocables with high quality connectors
• 2 work stations and 2 Lenovo laptops

Financing

• No budget at all (will be asked as a speedy grant request)

Figures

Report

500 gramophone records were donated from a shop in Zurich

Timeline

• 27 January: Relocation of the first 400 records by train to our archive room in Wetzikon

• 28 January: Our new MediaWiki is online

• 10 February: Another 100 records donated by the same shop moved to Wetzikon