Start Your Own Sheet Music Collection

Starting a sheet music collection is easy, oncesheet music looks great displayed in picture
you?ve decided what you want to collect. Sheetframes on a wall or sofa table.
music is inexpensive and relatively easy to find.Music written by famous composers is popular
You can find music at yard sales, antique showsamong sheet music collectors. This music is readily
and on the internet. Only music that is veryavailable in all music genres. Other collectors focus
scarce or rare is expensive. Most pieces can beon rare or vintage sheet music. The value of
found at a price between three and twenty fivethese documents depends largely on the condition
dollars. Extremely rare sheet music can carry aof the sheets. Pieces in mint condition will be more
price of up to a thousand dollars, but few piecesexpensive. Most sheet music isn?t found in
fall into this category. You will find music in anyperfect condition. The spine of the sheet was
color graphic or subject matter you are lookingusually broken to make the score stand up in the
for.music stand. Spills, tears and names written on
People collect sheet music in many ways.the covers are common because sheet music
Sometimes sheet music is collected by the genrewas often used at parties.
or songs. You could put together a history ofSheet music displayed in a family room or bar
music in America with a sheet music collection.area makes a great focal point. Even people who
You could do this with the entire history of ourdon?t collect sheet music use it in a display of
country or concentrate on one time period orother collectibles. Collectors of beer, whisky, golf,
decade. The possibilities are endless - be creativemilitary, cigars or trains can find sheet music to
when building your collection! Songs have beenaccent their collection. A few pieces of sheet
written about most important events in ourmusic with great cover art enhance a display of
history, including wars, plane crashes and naturalother collectibles. Collectors of memorabilia from
disasters. Themes such as love or the evolutionmovies or Broadway productions often look for
of images of women in music are popular themessheet music written for the production.
for sheet music collections. Other collectors focusAny sheet music that isn?t displayed should be
on one composer or cover artist.stored properly to preserve the condition. Store
Ragtime music from the early twentieth centuryeach set of sheet music in a plastic baggie like
is popular with collectors of vintage sheet music.those used for comic book collections. Place those
This music is considered the foundation of modernbags in a large plastic storage container to protect
jazz music. A ragtime music collection looks greatthem from being ripped or crumpled. Store your
displayed in a room decorated in the Earlycontainers in a dry place away from sunlight or
American style. And the cover art on rag timemoisture, which can damage the music.