vintage sheet music copyright tune dex litho library houndreds of tune dex music copyright litho cards Start Price USD 14.00 Current Price USD 14.00 Time Left - Bid Count 1 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, September 06, 2008 End Time Saturday, September 13, 2008 Location Colorado Springs, CO See more about 'vintage sheet music copyright tune dex litho library' Description Up for bid is a collection of tune dex cards, All from 1944- 1959 TOns of great musicians . You can start up your own library with this collection!! Back in the 40s and 50s These things cost between 35 and 75 cents each most of them are marked with a price. This digital collection presents the first decades of a comprehensive holding of popular American sheet music. Totaling more than 400,000 titles, the collection came to the Library in 1966 from the estate of George Goodwin (1900-1966), a radio station director who developed the Tune-Dex, a comprehensive 25,000 card catalog index of popular songs. (He also published several compendia of songs in the 1950s with the title "Song-Dex.") The information on the cards was nearly exhaustive, documenting composer, publisher, licensing and copyright information as well as the song's words, music and chords, all on two sides of 3x5 inch index card! Achieved in the pre-automation era, Goodwin's idea was a great success and for a time used extensively by those in the industry including NYPL. It is mere speculation that George Goodwin acquired his voluminous sheet music collection in tandem with his development of the Tune-Dex. However, the strength of the holding that came to NYPL mirrors his wellbeing and the growth of his index. Begun in 1942, the Tune-Dex continued until ill health overcame Goodwin in 1963. The sheet music collection, arranged by year of copyright and then alphabetical within each year, runs a parallel course; suddenly and noticeably weaker in 1963, it declines steadily in number of titles until Goodwin's death in 1966.       For this paticular collection, I would say there are about 1200-1500 index cards, I am not exactly sure I dont have the patients to count them all. Awsome collection  Place a Bid!