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a. Musical Instruments
Over 200 instruments from small musical boxes to large pipe organs, trace the history and development of automatic musical instruments allied instruments and effectively cover the period 1880 to 1940, bu which time they had been overtaken by new inventions. there are groups for domestic use, for use in the street and for public performances. Examples from the UK, the USA and Europe are represented in the collection which is probably the largest and most comprehensive of its type in the UK.
b. Perforated Paper Music Rolls
There are over 30,000 paper music rolls, the largest single museum collection in the UK and covering al the principal types and the artists who recorded for the various recording systems. Recordings include actual performances by Gershwin, Grieg, Hess, Busoni and Rachmaninov
c. The associated archive and library
Over 800 items of memorabilia, ephemera, catalogues, publicity material, articles, historical documents related to the collections, plus about 400 volumes of books and periodicals covering technical information, historical information, artistes and catalogues of paper music rolls as well as relevant journals. | Subjects: | paper music rolls Mechanical musical instruments Musical instruments | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | 368 High Street
Brentford
London Great Britain (UK),
TW8 0BD | Telephone: | 020 8560 8108 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5385 | Go to resource |
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