Are old Keyboard Magazines worth anything?

[Doerfler]

So Zero times Zero is Zero.

 

 

 

 

[David Emm]

In a word, no, aside from the major stepping stones each issue represented for me personally. Anyone involved with Keyboard deserves a free Prophet-6 for their service. Trying to find a buyer for such esoterica as antique KBs is almost as weird as being keen on music magazines from the era when the Mu-Tron Bi-Phase was wild new tech. Its like collecting 78s R. Crumb-style. While EM certainly isn't like the half-inch thick issues of Keyboard from back when, I'm glad to see KB folded into it. I'm not at all put off by articles on guitar audio warpage or the current range of mics. I'm never sorry to have things on tap that are outside my usual keyboard nerdage.

[Jwave]

Sure, as long as the pages aren"t stuck together.

[Magman]

One of my friends pointed this thread out to me, so I thought I pop in and say hello.

 

To say that I am a magazine collector would be a bit of an understatement, let"s just say that I have a 'significant' collection that hasn"t quite squeezed out the synths so far.

 

I have joined one project to see how many of these I can get on the Internet. You may have come across the http://www.muzines.co.uk/ website already, where I am a major contributor. One success we had last year was to get permission to host the collection of Polyphony magazine, which - with the help of the wider community - we managed to build a complete collection of very quickly.

 

I am interested in trying to do something similar for Keyboard and Electronic Musician. Critically, this is dependant on getting permission from the copyright holders as I believe copyright is important and should be respected. If we get permission though, we would look for donations or purchases of magazines to build the collection online. Perhaps it might only be the early years, like has been done for Sound on Sound magazine, but it would be great to even just have these available as they start to disappear from more public access. I have a few of these magazines already in my collection, but plan to hopefully get them all in time.

 

So if any of you folks are still looking to move some of your mags to new owners, count me as interested. I may appear to be on the wrong side of the Atlantic from first appearances, but that didn"t stop me completing my collection of Byte magazine thanks to a contact in America a few years ago with some large heavy boxes and a good shipper.

 

Regards

 

Mike

[Thethirdapple]

Print publications are pure gold in my world!

 

With an alarming trend to “purge” old data from servers and to not archive in any way, we are losing all sorts of knowledge. Heck even the wayback machine and the valiant attempts at archiving the web is met with petty “takedown” lawsuits and DOS attacks… lame

 

There is a huge piece missing when we remove shared references and knowledge from the available material. Some companies are better than others at archiving digital assets. But if any one has every tried to maintain links to articles from yesteryear… good luck

 

A few exceptions to the ephemeral world we now live in are books and magazines. Can’t tell you how much information is NOT on the internet and hard to find because its not monetized for the world wide vacuums (search engines).

 

Forums such as this one and especially my fav, KLF  has been a wonderful resource of past and present opinions, solutions, ideas and conversations.
 

Try this one on for size, a fun read down memory lane: 2005 forum thread… always NAMM

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It's really a new age, where people bitch about paying $2,000 for the best DAW on the market. Is that normal? Just 15 years ago I recall some big studios plunking 1/4 mil. on a 3348 which does alot less than the DAW!

 

The point is that 2005 is not 1985. I'm not surprised about the mindset of people, and their complaining about this issue, though I will say that it is ridiculous to do so.

 

Whether electronics, music, arts, all magazines and books contain information which is otherwise lost!

 

 

 

PEACE

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[CHarrell]

3 hours ago, Thethirdapple said:

Try this one on for size, a fun read down memory lane: 2005 forum thread… always NAMM

 

Old forum posts might be the pinnacle of the Internet. It's what I hope anthropologists, archeologists, and extraterrestrial lifeforms 200 years from now use primarily to understand this century.

[J.F.N.]

A collection of magazines 4-5 decades in total, that's a lot of space, easily a 3-4 tier stand full of enjoyable synths!!! (Potentially more...)

 

😂

[Bosendorphen]

On 6/5/2005 at 8:24 PM, Stephen Kay said:

I was cleaning out one of my storage rooms today, and came across the entire first couple of years of Keyboard Magazine (Contemporary Keyboard, it was then), all issues, including Vol 1 #1 (1975) with Chick Corea on the cover.

 

Looks like I've got the entire set of 75, 76, 77, (no 78), 79, and 80.

 

Anybody know if these are worth anything?

 

Wow, talk about nostalgia!

I know what you mean! I've got EVERY issue and love poring through the old ads and articles.

[Franz Schiller]

On 1/15/2020 at 5:08 PM, Magman said:

One of my friends pointed this thread out to me, so I thought I pop in and say hello.

 

To say that I am a magazine collector would be a bit of an understatement, let"s just say that I have a 'significant' collection that hasn"t quite squeezed out the synths so far.

 

I have joined one project to see how many of these I can get on the Internet. You may have come across the http://www.muzines.co.uk/ website already, where I am a major contributor. One success we had last year was to get permission to host the collection of Polyphony magazine, which - with the help of the wider community - we managed to build a complete collection of very quickly.

 

I am interested in trying to do something similar for Keyboard and Electronic Musician. Critically, this is dependant on getting permission from the copyright holders as I believe copyright is important and should be respected. If we get permission though, we would look for donations or purchases of magazines to build the collection online. Perhaps it might only be the early years, like has been done for Sound on Sound magazine, but it would be great to even just have these available as they start to disappear from more public access. I have a few of these magazines already in my collection, but plan to hopefully get them all in time.

 

So if any of you folks are still looking to move some of your mags to new owners, count me as interested. I may appear to be on the wrong side of the Atlantic from first appearances, but that didn"t stop me completing my collection of Byte magazine thanks to a contact in America a few years ago with some large heavy boxes and a good shipper.

 

Regards

 

Mike

 

Did anyone ever follow up with this gentleman? I certainly missed this thread when it happened 4 YEARS ago.

 

Seems like a worthy endeavor. Wonder if he ever got the copyright(s) permission.

 

Personally, instead of throwing out a collection of Keyboard Magazine, I'd rather ship it to this guy, so he can disassemble and scan them for posterity. I'm sure future gear heads would love the chance to see old issues.