Miscellaneous Music storage

[sunsetandlabrea]

I've accumulated a lot of music since I started playing. Way too much.

I don't think it stores well on book cases, often books are too tall, and I've got a fair amount of individual parts of two or three pages.

I'm considering buying a filing cabinet, but was wondering what other people use to store music?

 

[dexdex]

I don't have that many, most are approximately A4. I store them in those typical open top archive boxes you can find at IKEA or elsewhere. They stay in good shape, and are easy to keep on ordinary shelves.

 

[Pete Thomas]

I'm considering buying a filing cabinet, but was wondering what other people use to store music?

Recycling bin

 

[mizmar]

MusicSheets pro.

 

[jonf]

Massive messy pile on top of a bookcase, more in a trunk in the kitchen (where I usually play) and a small amount stored in the piano stool. All haphazard and disorganised.

 

[Hankenstine]

 

[rhysonsax]

Sheet music books (tutors, transcriptions, theory, arrangements etc.) on shelves or in boxes.
Pads for bands in wallets or lever arch files.
Lead sheets in plastic pockets in files in alphabetical order (in theory).
Transcriptions in plastic pockets in files in alphabetical order (in theory).
Lesson and workshop material in wallets and then into files when no longer active.

Loads and loads of loose sheets all over the place in piles, drawers.

Rhys

 

[Vetinari]

Spend a couple of years scanning to pdf and store on pc.

 

[sunsetandlabrea]

MusicSheets pro.

Spend a couple of years scanning to pdf and store on pc.

I do that, certainly for all my concert / big band pieces I have everything on an iPad. Books are trickier to scan, and besides which I prefer to keep them.

Thanks everyone.