On Inventorying A Music Room

Some quick thoughts, after inventorying the musical instruments in my new office:

• This band must have had some unusual instrumentation in the past. We counted
• three trombones
• two baritones
• two bass clarinets
• a sousaphone (an ANCIENT Martin sousaphone)
• a tenor sax
• an alto sax
• two partial clarinets
• several cornets
• one concert bass drum
• one pair of cymbals
• some auxiliary percussion
• and the toms and bass drums from two and a half different drum sets.
For those playing along at home, this means a complete lack of snare drums, flutes, and very little in the way of treble instruments at all (alto saxes, clarinets, trumpets, flutes, etc.).
• Where did all of the music stands go?
• There are two different marching band uniforms and majorette uniforms to go with them, but where are the rest of both sets? There are shakos aplenty (yuck).

JoElle helped me out a lot by putting together a database in OpenOffice.org, but it unfortunately won't save to any other format and we can't find any database software that can be shared freely without making PDFs. We've looked at Google Docs, but they don't have that software at all, and also at Grubba, but they require all users to register, so I can't exactly share this file easily. My goal is to have a file that I can share with administrators and other local teachers so that everyone knows what I do and don't have available, and to do the same for my sheet music. Ideally, this would make sharing with colleagues far more easy and would make repairing and replacing instruments easier, too. Any thoughts would be very appreciated.