A Brief Impression Of My Braaksma Indian Classical Music Collection

By the end of 2018 a friend of mine, Henk Braaksma, who’s been collecting Indian Classical Music (ICM) since the late nineteen-fifties, made me an offer to acquire/buy over his fabulous ICM-collection, consisting of mainly lp’s and tapes, containing most interesting and many great recordings in very good quality and everything very well documented and catalogued as well. Of course I was very enthusiastic and I eagerly accepted his offer, which makes me the proud owner of the ‘Braaksma ICM Collection’.
In November 2019 I did a short talk on this collection for a small audience of ethnomusicologists/cultural musicologists and I showed them this video during that presentation.
PdR, 15 October 2020

[@PatSen]

Incredible!!!

[@frankorusso]

Fantastico!!!

[@PatSen]

Let me know if I can be of any help in classification/codification of the data. Thank you for the love and dedication you have shown over the years towards Indic music. Though it may not be apparent, but rasiks like us appreciate your stellar contributions. 🙏🏽

[@pakhavaj]

Fantastic. Is it possible to imagine that one day all or part of it may be digitized and accessible?

[@PieterdeRooijHolland]

I have been digitizing a lot of tapes already, but a lot remains to be done. Accessible? Now and then I will use material from this collection for my Concertzender programmes. So far I've used material directly from the collection in these two programmes www.concertzender.nl/programma/wereldmineralen_523292-2/ and www.concertzender.nl/programma/wereldmineralen_535318/

[@pakhavaj]

@@PieterdeRooijHolland A beautiful program that i know very well and very often listen to. Just my not remembering where the music comes from thank you for your wonderfull research!

[@VinayakVaidya]

Great- any idea where one can see the catalogue...I also have such collection