Archives

The Society Archives provide a comprehensive reference source on Mechanical Music. Members can submit enquiries to the Archivist who will find matching documentation and provide copies where possible. In some circumstances it may be possible for items to be loaned for short periods. The Archive contains journals from most English, US and European Societies, (in some cases dating back to their inception), many books and leaflets on Mechanical Music, Auction catalogues, Traders literature (old and new), Tune Lists, Technical leaflets, Museum and Festival leaflets, advertisements, CDs, Audio tapes, Films, photographs and other memorabilia donated by members.

Tune Lists

The Society is also compiling Tune lists of ALL mechanical musical instruments, from Pianola, player organ, organette, disc musical boxes etc. Members send in lists of tunes in their collection and from the tune number, title and composer the original catalogues are re-created. These can be used to identify titles where they are illegible on 100 year old music, or just to establish what tunes might be obtainable for a particular instrument.

The current lists are shown below - (click on the name to open the pdf file). If you have tunes not shown in the lists, please send details to the Archivist using the "Information" form at the bottom of the page.

Lists for a number of other instruments (as well as those above) can be found on the Mechanical Music Digest web site http://mmd.foxtail.com/MMMedia/index.html