[Hornlist] Cutiss Blake online

[Peter Hirsch]

Some of you may be aware of Curtiss Blake and his efforts to amass an 
all-encompassing  collection of  horn recordings. I had read about this 
collection many years ago in the Horn Call and found that it had found 
its way the library at the Madison campus of the University of 
Wisconsin. My attempts to search the catalog via telnet a few years back 
were not terribly fruitful, but I did some research tonight and see that 
5926 items have been cataloged and can be searched via:

http://madcat.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Title&SEQ=20041124215859&PID=5630&SA=Blake+collection
Of course, you have to pay a visit to the listening facility at UWM to 
actually hear any of the recordings, but just being able to peruse this 
mind-boggling catalog ought to make many of us horn-junkies greatful to 
Blake and the librarians who created those thousands of catalog records. 
Now all of you who are doing such and such a piece on your junior 
recital that doesn't happen to be one of the top ten most popular ones 
can find out if there is a recording without troubling the good old 
hornlist. I can think of many more reasons that one would find this of 
use and endless fascination, but maybe that's just my weirdness.

Peter Hirsch
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