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"Harry Lavo" wrote:

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At the Oberlin Conservatory library, every study station is equiped with a
phonograph as well as a cd player, amplifier, and headphones.

As is true in every decent sized music library that I know of... UCLA,
USC, Berkeley, Eastman, etc.
Equal
opportunity listening. For those who don't know, the Oberlin Conservatory
of Music is the country's leading undergraduate conservatory for classical
musicians, snip

Oh oh! Better duck from the incoming flak from grads of Eastman,
Julliard, the New England Conservatory.... :-) That said, Oberlin is
certainly a fine, world-class school. I had a very good friend on the
faculty there in the 80s, Larry Rachleff.