[Dixielandjazz] Alphabetising and its pitfalls

[Stan Brager]

Bob;

There's no problem for English speaking record collectors with Cecil Aagard.
In our ignorance about the Scandinavian alphabet, Aagard will most likely be
first - just before Aaronson.

The placing of recordings on one's shelves depends mostly about how one
thinks of how one retrieves that record. In my collection, I have all forms
of music in alphabetical order by artist or composer (for classical music).
There are some other groupings of music such as Klezmer, Christmas, Comedy,
and compilations with many different artists. This works for me because I've
lived so long with this system that I can easily find the album I want
(assuming that I replaced it back on the shelf and don't have it lurking
somewhere else in the house.).

Stan
Stan Brager
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Smith" <robert.smith at mitransport.no>
To: "Dixieland Jazz" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 12:22 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Alphabetising and its pitfalls


> Hello Bill and Luis,
>
> Bill, you are lucky you don't own any Cecil Aagard  (Swedish jazz
vocalist) records, because in Swedish the "Aa" diphthong (an A with a little
o on top) comes immediately after Z in the alphabet. In Danish and Norwegian
"Aa" is the last letter (the 29th) of the alphabet, following "Ae" and "Oe".
> Numbers are safer, unless you're a Roman Numeral addict.
> "Roman Centurions from the right, number!"
> "Aye", "Aye, aye","Aye, aye, aye", "Aye, vee", .....
>
> Cheers
>
> Bob Smith
>
>