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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.

Known titles
available for various instruments
(click below to open pdf)

ORGANETTES

 

PLAYER ORGANS

PLAYER PIANOS

 

DISC MUSICAL BOXES

 

OTHER

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

 

ENQUIRY

Members wishing to request information may use the enquiry form, for information on membership click here

Name:

E-mail:

Address:
(Optional if sending information only)

Postcode:

Country:

   

Please provide a copy of the following article:-

Journal:

Volume:

Page:

Date:

Subject/Title:

Other:

Please provide any information on the following:-

 

 
 

   

Information provided from the Archives is for personal use only to avoid infringement of copyright. There may be a charge for supplying hard copies, but electronic copies by e-mail are normally free of charge.

 

INFORMATION FOR THE ARCHIVES

If you have any useful information to add to the lists above please use the form below

Addition to Tune List for (Instrument):

Size:

 

     

Number

Title

Composer

     

Other:

 
     

 

     

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Most Recent Update: May 2005
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