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Sheet music 10 cents a piece, more than 1700 pieces up for auction

Location: Willington, Connecticut, USA
I am clearing out a ton of sheet music, more than 1700 pieces in all, posted on eBay this week. I have posted 40 different auctions for lots of between 17 and 100 pieces each for a  variety of types of choirs. Secular, sacred, spirituals, Christmas, show tunes, patriotic, love songs, and folk tunes. Prices start at 10 cents a piece. While the titles aren't listed, everything is pictured so you can see what you're getting. I’ve recently inherited a huge library of vintage choral music which I have been listing over the last couple of weeks on eBay, and I'm just about done. It’s too much to list individual titles, but I will try to photograph as many as possible. If you do an advanced search by seller on eBay and search for my seller's user id m2adc you can see all the auctions that are currently running, or go to www.ebay.com/sch/m2adc/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686 
I am happy to combine shipping for people who win more than one auctions, so that the media mail costs are minimized. They are from a choral director who worked in various settings, so there’s a mix of secular and sacred music, as well as arrangements for various types of choirs. I will sort it as much as possible by type of music, and type of choir, and show this at the top of the listing. Most of them are in good to very good used condition, but do have the person’s and sometimes the organization’s stamps on them. There are also occasional notes on the music, usually in pencil. They were stored in filing cabinets and smell fine – no musty odors. All are the smaller format 7” x 10.5” size. The dates on the music in the library vary from 1890 to 1980, but the majority of it is vintage from the 1960s and 1970s. Some lots will contain a larger amount of earlier music, and I will try to put that in the listing when I notice it. I am not a choral director, nor do I know much about it, but will try to describe each lot as accurately as possible. I also have 30 or more sets of multiple copies -- I will list each set by individual title. While I am unable to look for any individual titles in the large mixed lots, I would be happy to answer any questions via email once a day. It is always possible that there are a few duplicates in each lot – there’s just too much here to look at that closely. When I’ve come across them they frequently appear to be different arrangements of the same song, or different publishers.