Musical Box Society of Great Britain ARCHIVES CONTENTS

November, 2015

Contents Permissions ......................................................................................................................................................... 1 Committee Minute Books ................................................................................................................................... 1

Technical ................................................................................................................................................................ 3 Text Books.............................................................................................................................................................. 7 Miscellaneous ....................................................................................................................................................... 11

Other Documents .............................................................................................................................................. 11 Newspaper cuttings ........................................................................................................................................... 12 Artefacts ........................................................................................................................................................... 13 Musical Box Tune sheets .................................................................................................................................. 13 Business Cards .................................................................................................................................................. 14 Greeting Cards .................................................................................................................................................. 14 Orders of Service:- ............................................................................................................................................ 14 Tune Lists. ........................................................................................................................................................ 14 Brochures from other Societies......................................................................................................................... 15

Other ..................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Auction Catalogues. .............................................................................................................................................. 16 Original Makers & Dealers Catalogues ................................................................................................................ 16 Modern Day Traders Literature ............................................................................................................................ 18 Electronic Media................................................................................................................................................... 18

Visual Media..................................................................................................................................................... 18 Audio Media ..................................................................................................................................................... 19 Digital Media .................................................................................................................................................... 20

Patents for Mechanical Devices ............................................................................................................................ 21 Museums - Leaflets & Catalogues ........................................................................................................................ 22 Brochures of Special Events ................................................................................................................................. 25

Permissions to use published material from:- (In white envelope) Jo Webb (Wife of Graham Webb) H.A.V. Bulleid Peggy Wright (wife of Lyn) Mrs Tallis (wife of David)

Committee Minute Books

1962-1977 (Start of society, constitution, etc.) 1970- AGM Minutes Ordinary meetings Archive reports Correspondence Copies of Accounts ISBN Log Various financial papers, inc. advertising rates & data – Obituaries Membership number reports Constitution

An Introduction to the Society. Membership application forms (examples) Various committee papers Directory of the members: 1965, 1968, 1974, 1976, 1980, 2009 Membership List June 2011 Membership List: Hand written - members 1 to 1683 Computer Printouts 19.1.93, 4.8.97, 5.4.2000, 19.10.2000 INDEX - 1962 - end of Vol 16 by John Powell. Photograph albums Street organ festival, Thun 1983 Malton, 1983 (+ Reg Mayes Photos) Visit to Switzerland, 1983 Scotland

Technical

Klavar Music Notation System - description & letter re use - from Frank Holland How to Get the best out of the Player Piano. E.Newman - 2 page leaflet Disputatio Mechanica de Horologiis music o-automatis Details of Bells & Bell Hanging Eayre & Smith Ltd. Animated Androids - Steve Ryder The Clockwork Bowman of Merry England - article by K.Harding Explanation for using musical boxes - in 4 languages Mills Violano Virtuoso - Service Manual. Kalliope Directions of use How to clean a Cylinder Music Box – C A Burnett 1972 Musical Box Workshop Manual – Keith Harding Jun 1972 Notes on Musical Box maintenance and Restoration – Unk. Seeburg KT Diagrams – D H Snelling 1992 Lecture on Musical Box History – John Mansfield 1992 Symphonion Tuning = Unk. Buying a Music Box – Nancy Fratti Player Piano Functions – Allan Jones Comb Styles & Musical Affects – Jere Ryder History of the Swiss Fabrique System – David Wells 1994 The Curious History of Music Boxes – Roy Mosoriak (Related Papers) Letter on Tuning – John Powell 1981 On Playing the Pianola – Reginald Reynolds The Pianotist – Use & Care Artistic Piano Playing with the Angelus Player Piano How to play the Aeolian Grand Repair & Maintenance for the Stella Music Box The Ampico – How to Play & Care Converting a 65 note Player (to 88 notes) How to test & regulate the Welte-Mignon reproducing action Instructions for operating , oiling & repairing Regina musical boxes RCA Theremin – Instructions Barrel Piano motor – sketch & description Welte Philharmonic Organ at Salomons Extracts from Diderot Encyclopedia, Music Box (AO-H), Musical Boxes (JETC) How the Stella-Johnson Tune Discs are made How to keep your Harmonium Hale & Hearty Organ Construction (Extracts)

Compton: Sonata and Sonatina Service Manual

Journals MBSGB - The Music Box Musical Box Society International, all NEWS Bulletin and copies of Mechanical Music to date Sundry documents relating to governance of MBSI Special Publications Le Monde des Automates- A.Chapuis et E.Gelis History of the Music Box & of Mechanical Music- A.Chapuis Four Happy Weeks in the Old World - John J. Hoeltzel Reprints from Nov 1959 of papers 1-5:- 1.What to look for when purchasing a Musical Box 2.Pinning & repinning cylinders of Swiss Musical Boxes 3.History of the Mechanical Music Box. 4.Automatons & their History. 5.Regina Music Boxes. Replacing broken teeth in a comb. The Origin & Development of the Music Box - M.Jaccard Commemorative issue honouring Howard & Helen Fitch (Parts 1. & 2.) Various notices, brochures, etc. catalog - "Music in Time" exhibition 1990 - 1991. Golden Anniversary Book 1949 - 1999. No.139 of 1,000 Hardback 232 pg. AMICA Bulletin CD version 1964 - 2011 The Reed Organ Society Journal 2002 to date, plus Members Directories for same period Music & Automata (By A.Ord-Hume) Nos 1-16 British Organ Grinders Association (B.O.G.A.) To date Mechanical Organ Owners Society (MOOS). Vox Humana Most from inception to date Fair Organ Preservation Society – The Key Frame Most from 1965 through to date Index 1964-1991, 1992 Prospectus Player Piano Group, London (PPG) – Bulletins to date Instrument Listing 1998 Reginald Reynolds - "The Paderewski" of the Player Piano. Constitution 1993

Carolina Shout! 1994 Golden Jubilee brochure 2009 Membership lists – 1972, 1978-9, 1980,1983, 1985 – 1994, 1996 - 2008 Dec 1972 – List of members plus part minutes of something The Musical Museum and Friends Newsletter Newsletter/Notes – Aug 2005, Nov, 2005, Feb 2006 Piano Recital by Michael Broadway 1993 Information sheet 83/84 Early newsletters – 1981, 1986, 1987 Various papers from Frank Holland News 2004 #1

North West Player Piano Association (NWPPA) - Newsletter 1979through to current date Theatre Organ Club. Magazine - Theatre Organ Review Small selection Talking Machine Review 7 issues, plus Discography Yvette Guilbert. Musiques Mecaniques Vivantes All to date 1 x copy of ‘Intervue’ from AAIMM, undated Le Canard de Barbarie Random selection Les Cahier de Perferon 1991 - 1999 final issue = discontinued List of Music 1995 (on records ?) Coppelia – 2,6,9 Das Mechanische Musikinstrument 1-8, 16-36, 40, 41, 44 – 86, 88 -110, 112-123 Special - Klang Kunst Membership lists for 1980, 1984,1986,1989,1991, 1995, 2001,2003,2006,2009 Musikhistorische Gesellschaft Journal 1(1978), 3, 4, 6-11 (1982) CD of journals 1 – 100 Die Drehorgel Number 33, 36, 50, 51, 56 Het Pierement Journal 1976 to current date Also – “Seminars in Dutch”

Van Speelklok tot Pierement. L'Antico Organetto 1998 to current date Lettera dal Italia Numbers 18 (Apr 1990); 19 (Sept 1990). Mare & Monti (Italian journal) Sept 03 Anno XI Schweizerischer Verein der Freunde Mechanischer Musik Information Nos. 96 to current date MechaMusica vzw – Nieuwsbrief 2008 – 1,2,3 2009 – 1,2,3 Electronic versions onwards - 2015

Text Books

Title Author Notes Date

Acoustical Foundations of Music, The John Backus 1969

John Backus 1969

Aeolian Pipe Organ & It's Music, The Dr.Rollin-Smith 534 pages 1999

Alles Andere als Alltag Ullrich Wimmer

Ampico Roll Catalogue L’Atelier de Dr Wyss

Elaine Obenchain Jurg Wyss et al

1977

Automata – The Golden Age Christian Bailly SIGNED 1993

Automata - A Historical & Technological Study A.Chapuis & E.Droz

Automata – The Golden Age Bailly

Automata John Hansard Gallery

Automata Trianon & Terrasse 1993

Automata & Mechanical Toys Mary Hillier

Automatic Musical Instruments 1580-1820 Jan Jaap Haspels

Automatic Organs A.W.J.G. Ord-Hume Schiffer

Automatic Pianos Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume 2004

Automatentraume Badisches Landesmuseum, Aubenstelle Bruchsal

Evelyn Flogel Jens Carlson

2003

Barrel Organ Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume 1978

Before the Lamps went out Havering Arts Council

Black Forest Clock Makers & The Cuckoo Clock Karl Kochmann

Box Full of Rolls, A – Autobiography Frank Holland

Catalogue of Instruments Nasu Museum - Japan

Church & Chamber Barrel Organs Langwill & Boston

Clockwork Music A.Ord-Hume review copy May 1973

Collecting Musical Boxes & How to Repair Them A.W.J.G.Ord-Hume

Copyright in Libraries Library Assoc. 1996

Cylinder Musical Box Design & Repair H.A.V.Bullied 1987

Cylinder Musical Box Technology H.A.V.Bullied 1994

Datenspeicher Musikinstrumente Wendel

Da Vinci Mechanical Drum project AMMI

Die Dreorgel in der Kirche Die Orgal in St. Jakobus, Rudesheim am Rhein

Helmut Zarachi (in German) 1977

Die Osterreichische Spielwerkmanufaktur Luuk Goldhorn 176 pages 1999

Die Welte Philharmonie Orgel Dr H Weiss-Stauffacher 1970

Disc Musical Box Book, The Directions Wurlitzer Harp.

Kevin McElhone 2012

Discovering Mechanical Music T.E.Crowley

Dollmaking & Collecting 1981

Drehorgeln Helmut Zeraschi

Duo-Art Roll Catalogue Charles Davis Smith Reprint

Duo-Art Service Manual 1927

Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments Q.David Bowers

Faszination Player Piano Figures in the Fourth Dimension

Jurgen Hocker Ellen S Rixford

2009 2015

Figuren – Drehorgel von Ignaz Bruder und Seinen Nachkommen

Juttemann

Flights of Fancy C. & S.Bailly 2001

From Music Boxes to Street Organs R. De Waard

Gilbert’s Pocket Guide to Antique Musical Machine G Pasley

Values

Glorieuze Orgeldagen F.Wieffering

Guida al Museo di Strumenti Musicali Meccanici Marino Marini 304 pages + English Translation c.60 Pg

Guide Book of Automatic Musical Instruments Q.David Bowers

Historic Organs – Keddleston Hall Chamber Organ Dr. Alan Barnes Richard Allan

Home Emtertainment Dale & Weaver British Library

Hupfield PhonoLiszt-Violana & Mills Violano Virtuoso Ignaz Blasius Bruder, Schwarzwalder Drehorgelbau

Q David Bowers Juttemann

AMICA 2012 2006

Il Piano a Cilindro Antonio Latanza 2009

Il Ripristino Dell’Organo Idraulico Del Quirinale Antonio Latanza Italian language 1995

Image de la Musique Mecanique Anne-Lise Quesnel 2006

Inventing Entertainment Brian Dolan 2009

Isis and Beyond. Biog of Cecil E.Nixon Kazuo Murakami

Doran Wittlesbach Japanese Automata

66 pages 256 pages

1997 2012

Keyboard Instruments in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Emanuel Winternitz

Klang Kunst Schweizeriisches Landesmuseum 1996

La Serinette La Tonotechnie ou L'art de Noter les Cylindres

Ackim Sneider J.Engramelle

2007/8

Leierkasten in Berlin Willy Romer

London DuoArt Pianists: Mechanical Mozart

PPG/Patrick Handscombe Van Speelklok Museum

2014 2007

Mechanical Musical Instruments Alexander Buchner

Mechanical Singing-Bird Tabatieres Geoffrey T.Mason 2000

Modern British Organ Musee de Pieces a Musique Anciennes

Noel A Bonavia-Hunt Baud Freres

Museumsbuch Speyer 1996

Music for the Pianola & Duo-Art Full scale & 65 note 1932

Music Museum – Burg Linz 124 pages 1986

Musical Automata Utrecht Museum 1995

Musical Box A.W.J.G. Ord-Hume Allen & Unwin 1980

Musical Box Tune Sheets H.A.V.Bullied Softback 1999

Musical Box Tune Sheets H.A.V.Bullied Hardback 1999

Musical Box Tune Sheets Musical Box Tunes Sheets

H.A.V.Bullied H.A.V.Bullied

Supplement Supplements 2,3

Musical Boxes John E.T.Clark 3rd ed 1961

Musical Boxes John E.T.Clark 1st ed 1961

Musical Boxes David Tallis 1971

Musical Boxes & Other Musical Marvels MBSI

Musical Clock A.W.J.G.Ord-Hume 1995

Musical Times (Oct 1951) Novello

Musik Automaten - Schloss Bruschal 56 pages 1995

Muskum 1600 Mechanische Musikinstrumente Nicole Record

Austrian Academy of Sciences M.Kinnear

286 pages

2001

On Display. 40th Anniversary book F.O.P.S. 1999

Orchestrien Aus Dem Schwarzwald Herbert Juttemann German 2004

Organ Construction J.W.Hinton

Organ Parade FOPS

Origin & Development of The Music Box Jaccard

Passion for Barrel Organs, A Pianola Bulletin – Nederlandse Pianola Vereniging

Milly & Colin Williams

Piano Playing Mechanisms William B.White

Player Piano A.W.J.G Ord-Hume Allen & Unwin 1970

Player Piano Treasury Harvey Roehl Vestal

Player Piano Treasury Harvey Roehl Vestal 1973

Player Pianos & Musical Boxes Roehl

Popper Orchestrion Katalog 1908/09 Reprint

Practical Manual for the Piano & Harmonium Tuner E.Nugues; H.C.Pouget; C.Martin

Protection of Mech. Reproduction Rights Prof. Erich Schulze BIEM 1980

Put Another Nickel In Rare and Unusual Black Forest Clocks

Q.D. Bowers Justin J Miller

2012

Rebuilding the Player Piano Larry Givens

Re-enacting the Artist L.Givens

Restoring Musical Boxes A/W/J.G. Ord-Hume Allen & Unwin

Restoring Musical Boxes & Musical Clocks A.W.J.G.Ord-Hume Mayfield

Roller Organs Todd Augsberger

Royal Music Machines Haspels vonSpeelklok

Saltzburger Stier – Bericht uber die Restaurung des Hornwerkes

Schilder Bilder – Moritten German 1987

Schweizer Spieldosen Dr. H Weiss-Stauffacher

Sciopticon Manual reprint from 1989

1875

Silver Anniversary Collection MBSI 1974

Speyer & Sinsheim Museums - Musikautomaten

Street Musicians on Postcards MBSGB

Street Organs in Europe

Technique & History of the Swiss Watch E.Jaquet & A.Chapuis

The Book of knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices

Donald R.Hill

The Book of World Famous Music

The Cinema Organ 2nd. Edition Reginald Foort Vestal Press 1970

The Curious History of Music Boxes Mosoriak

The Cylinder Musical Box Handbook Graham Webb Faber

The Directory of Tunes Denys Parsons

The Disc Musical Box Handbook Graham Webb

The Fair Organ & How it Works E.V.Cockayne

The Fairground Organ-It's Music Mechanism & History

E.V.Cockayne

The Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments Art.Reblitz boxed 2001

The History of the Player McTammany p/copy 84 p. 1915

The Marvellous World of Music Machines H.Weiss-Stauffacher & R.Bruhin

The Mechanics of Mechanical Music Ord-Hume

The modern Piano Lawrence M.Nalder

The Music Box Makers Jean Claude Piguet

The Music Box Workshop Manual K.Harding + C.Burnett

The Musical Box A.W.J.G.Ord-Hume Schiffer 1995

The Nicole Factor Bellamy, Cunlifee & Ison MBSGB

The Organ Baker Shire

The Organ Walter G Alcock

The Organ Tuner No. 5 Michael MacDonald

The Organette Book Kevin McElhone MBSGB

The Pipe Organ & Player Piano – Construction, Repair & Tuning

Faust Reprint

The Practical Lubrication of Clocks & Watches BHI 2007

The Servicing of Clocks & Watches BHI 2008

Titanic-Orgel, Die Deutsches Musikautomaten Museum

2012

The Technical History of the Player John McTammany

Toys. Dolls. Automata - Marks & Labels Gwen White

Traumereien Mit Musik (Sewen) Dr H Weiss Stauffacher 2006

Treasures of Mechanical Music Treasures of the Forbidden City

Reblitz & Bowers Speelklok Museum

Vestal

Vom Glockenspiel zum Tonband Walter Bruch

Voyage au Pays Des Miniatures

Waldkirch Street & Fairground Organs Die Wiener Flotënuhr The Wonderland of Music Boxes and Automata

Jutteman Helmut Kowar

Vienna Technisches Museum

York Museum of Automata, 2 sets of 12 postcards

Miscellaneous

**** S.F.Sunley B.H.I. Certificate, photographs & newspaper Cuttings Carlo Giannetti letter to Mrs.Bornand 15.01.49 re Dancing dolls + cuttings & AMICA - London, 6.8.95 - leaflet. Project to locate Barrel Pianos in UK Museums – J.F. Turner 2001 Bound copy. Copies of musical box arrangements supplied by David Beck to HAV Bulleid. Box of miscellaneous photographs – undocumented. Plans of table for Racca 48 note Piano Melodico, by Arthur Cunliffe Various Barrel Piano arrangements from Derek Taylor of Colchester, via Richard Kerridge HAV Bulleid’s Journals; + 2 boxes HAV Bulleid’s papers Transcript of BBC radio programmes featuring Canon Wintle Anthony Sheppard – Puccini and Musical Boxes, Journal of Royal Musical Association

Other Documents

What your Player Piano thinks about Messig Orchestrion Corporation – Share Certificate 1920 American Music Box Co. - Share Certificate 1896. Jottings from the Past - A Dip into the Archives - K.Harding London Labour & The London Poor - copy 1851 life & earnings Street Buskers etc. The Duo-Art Fracas Sir Henry Irvine's music box J.E.T.Clark bills, photocopy of papers from Harper Pianos. Regina Disc Punching machine -Photos Hobbies Magazine - Antique Musical Instrument number - May 1938. Australian Collectors Quarterly Aug - Oct 1990. Waldkircher Orgel Zeitung - 200 Jahre - August 1999 - paper 8 pg. Focus on Stamps 1996 Swiss Bicentenary Brochure + Limited Edition Reuge Cat (2) The Collector Dec/Jan 2001/2 Music & Automata, publicity material Androids - the Jaquet-Droz automatons. promotional leaflet Isis & Beyond – Advert for biography of Cecil E Nixon Beatty Cabinet Rogan est. New Jersey. Photocopy of advert Tune identification – Lyn Wright Song & Music sheets which refer to Mechanical Music Instruments Introduction to cylinder musical boxes – bibliography Gershwin piano rollography Langdorff musical box details – HAV Bulleid Songs from Irving Berlin Music Box Revues Words to old songs – various Explanation for using musical boxes – 4 languages Tips on dismantling a cylinder musical box R. Smith – letter and order forms Bibliography of Tune catalogues in MBSI & MBSGB journals to 1988 Details of Mermod musical boxes extracted from the Register Disc Box Register at 26/2/99 Organette Register at 26/2/99 H.A.V.Bullied? list of Airs found on Musical Boxes + dates 1997

Bremond Interchangeable No. 36234, G 8898 tune list. Herbert Jutterman: Ignaz Blasius Bruder, Schwarzwalder Drehorgelbau Seit 1860 Robin Timms. manuscripts of the arrangements for 11" Polyphon discs Introduction & descriptive (Various incomplete) 9007 The Parade of the Tin Soldiers 9015 The Stripper 9016 The Trout 9019 The Streams of Lovely Nancy 9021 Let me Lament - Handel 9023 Moonlight 9024 The Bard of Eve 9025 Loved with Everlasting Love 9026 Brahms Song 9027 Some Enchanted Evening 9028 In the Garden 9029 San Toy A.B.C. Gavotte 9030 Arcady is ever Young - the Arcadians, L.Monckton 9031 Pipes of Pan " 9032 the Girl with a Brogue " 9033 Some Where " 9034 Charming Weather " 9038 All Down Piccadilly " 9039 Come Back to Arcady " 9041 Keep off the Grass - The Toreador 9043 Legend of the Bells - The Bells of Corneville 9044 A Quaker Girl - The Quaker Girl 9045 Come to the Ball - " " 9046 My Own Little Girl - a Country Girl 9047 The Pink Hungarian Band - " " 9048 Half Past Two - The Arcadians list of arrangements 9001 - 9082 as at May 1993.

Newspaper cuttings

Georgian organ clock MBSI members at Greenfield village 21.10.54 Diversions of the Pianola - Daily Telegraph 29.11.75 Music Boxes preserve a family tradition - N.Y.Times. 22 1/2" autochange Polyphon. Sunday Telegraph Sept 1986 Boy's Own Paper - How to cut tunes for automatic musical instruments by R.A.R.Bennet M.A.Oxon. Repairing Melodions Radio Times - Clockwork in Concert - Jan 1987 Showcase - Sunday Times 5.4.1987 Antiques, by James Paton Musical Keyboards from a bygone age. The Advertiser 15/4/1988 Swiss Music Box Display Aid Fund. Pictorial Review 29/5/1949 Ring-a-ding! An historic “box”. Lancs Evening Post 27/4/1968 Lord Oranmore and Browne with barrel organ. Daily Telegraph 10/8/2002

Melody Farm shares the joy of music.. Rain-but the music “boxes” played on. Daily Mail13/9/1983 A Star with a Hobby – David Nixon. Radio Times 23/11/1967 Bygone sounds help raise cash for the blind. (Whitehead, Brown, etc.) Rolling out the barrel aids guide dogs. Grinding it out with new spirit. Clockworke in concerte! Derek & Pamela Taylor in Colchester A Collection of Note (Musical Museum) Notes from the Musical Museum. Southern Electricity Magazine. Music Boxes. What’s it worth, 1992 A.I.G. interviews A.Ord-Hume Canon Wintle out again. Country Life 17/9/1953 Retonio’s Mechanische Musik. Weltwoche Magazin, 25/10/1978 (German) The Great Exhibition of Automata. Malta Times Christmas 1998 Win a Humanola competition. The Musical Journal July 1905 Music men strike a happy note at Altens.Press & Journal 23/9/1985 Sentence on Frank Solomon for stealing a Polyphon. 1899 Cartoon of organ grinder. L’Eclipse 3/11/1872 The Piano Girl. (frontispiece for sheet music ?) The Matchless Orchestrion Cylinder pianos L’histoire curieuse d’un “instrument de rue” Modern Advert - Bowers & Wilkins loudspeakers depicting Phonograph & Orchestrion Photo of Reginald Reynolds Sound and Fury by Graham Webb. Art & Antiques, 22/10.1977 Silver Swan, Bowes Museum, Country Life, May 13,2009 Winchester Organ Festival, 2015

Artefacts

Brass & Wood Plaque - Presented to MBSGB on 10th Anniversary by MBSI Guide Dog for the Blind Model - Presented to MBSGB Sept 1982 Bag of button badges, etc. commemorating Organ Grinds etc. Several Medallions, 40th Anniversary Meeting Lincoln 2002 Cine Film Projector in zip-up case. 20th Anniversary of BOGA pin

Musical Box Tune sheets

Blank – Fabrique De Geneve Imitation Mandoline No. 5406 (photocopy) Chris Rodwell June 2004 – Copy of sheet from 39081 1889 8 Airs Drum & Bells 22804 (photocopy) B A Bremond – Directions for use and Instructions (photocopies), card. 8 Air 51 Pouce (poor photocopy) Blank unidentified Nicole Freres 32399, Gamme 1323 (photocopy) Interchangeable Mandolin Tremolo Expressif Zither Nr.57659

Frontispiece + 3 tune Music cards. B.A.Bremond - tune sheet 12" x 8" from A. Heap

2 tune cards, Bourdelot 51955, & Harp Zither 635, Also tuning scales (from collection of John Clark)

Business Cards

Mary Belton - Original Pianola Shop, Brighton John Cowderoy - Eastbourne Evans & Evans - Alresford A.J.Colley - Bellvue J.P.Pettit - Haybarn Antiques Adrian H Little – Cheshire Decamps – Paris Jacot & Son – New York Kamiel Flame – Gent (Photocopy) Jean Decuber – Charleroi (Photocopy)

Greeting Cards

Christmas Cards. Bob Minney to Gerry Planus 1976 & 1980. " " Murtogh Guinness possibly to G.Planus " " various to Archivist - K.Harding + Le Ludion 1997 “ “ Cyril de Vere Green “ “ Graham and Jo Webb

Orders of Service:-

Cyril de Vere Green 22.04.83 Harold Smith 7/12/2001 Arthur Reginald Waylett 11/4/1995 Jon Francis Gresham Robert Walker Clark 28/3/2002 Frank Holland 24/11/1989 Frank Holland Memorial Concert 19/2/1992 Durrell Armstrong (Owner of Player Piano Co.) 29/12/2008

Tune Lists.

Mira & Stella Disc titles list, Coulson Conn Kalliope catalogue and tune list Organina Thibouville - 24 note - 7 sheet tune list. Polyphon 24 1/2" 1st Series list (poor copy) Tune catalogue Other Polyphon lists 32 Note Grand Organette Cob list 4.5” Thorens Triola Zither Faventia Pianos George Salter – List of tunes for musical box No. 1 Polyphon 50cm. Tune list book Seraphone Music (original)

Music for Celestina, Mandolina & Coronet Aeolian 116 note Pipe Organ roll list Alphabetical Index of Music contained in Aeolian Pipe-Organ Music Catalog Catalogue of Roller Organs & Music (Repro) Symphonion 192 list Symphonion 78, 106, 13x, 10x, 192, 143 Roller organ music list (original) Endless bands for Celestina, Seraphone, Ariel Polyphon 4X, 5x, 62, 10x, 2043 Polyphon 15 ½ Artona rolls Paillard interchangeable cylinders Hupfeld 73note 26” Regina Intona Organette Rings Empress Musical Boxes Gerald Stonehill Duo-Art collection Celestina rolls Thibouville 16 Music for the Angelus styles 64, 64, 66 and 16, and the Angelus Piano, also New Melodant Music Catalogue of ARTISTYLE music rolls for all standard 88 note full scale player pianos

Brochures from other Societies

Friends of the Musical Museum Hurdy Gurdy Society Kring van Draaiorgelvriended MechaMusica Nederlands Pianola Vereniging Gesellschaft fur Selbstspielende Musikinstrumente International Vintage Phonograph & Mechanical Music Society Carousel Organ Association of America Automatic Musical Instrument Collector’s Association Musical Box Society International (4) Associazione Musicale Meccanica Italiana Club Deutscher Drehorgelfreunde e V

Other

Organ grinding certificate

Auction Catalogues.

Christies, Kensington; Phillips, Bayswater; Bonhams, Knightsbridge & Knowle (from 1999 at Knowle); Bonham's, Chelsea; Sothebys, London Fieldings; Retonio; Auction Team Koln/Breker James D.Julia – Auction poster May 1997. + Ad Card July 1998. + various posters & leaflets Chartres Gildings Saddington Hall

Original Makers & Dealers Catalogues

American Photoplayer Company Aeolian Company – The Pianola Piano new Duo-Art models Aeolians – The Orchestrelle Company The Orchestrelle Company and its Business Aeolian Pipe Organs in English Homes Aeolians – Photocopied leaflet The Aeolian May 1923 Adler Musik-Werke 1900 Angelus Player Piano (leaflet) Angelus: Catalogue of Melodant Artistyle Music Rolls for 88 & 65 note Angelus Bial & Freund Musikwerke J.M.Bonn, Lepzig Jos Bursens Cocchi, Bacigalupo & Graffigna Compton: Sonata and Sonatina Service Manual Cuendet, Jules Cuendet Jules Catalogue Illustre des Boites a Musique (Reproduction copy) Douglas & Co., London Drapers Organettes, Blackburn Ehrlich, Paul & Co. Estrelle: Spiel Auleitung fur Estrelle Piano und Vorsete-Appart Estrelle Frati & Co., Berlin (2) G Baker-Trolls High Class Musical Boxes and Orchestrions (Reproduction copy) Gebruder Bruder, Waldkirch (2) Gerard & Co., Bruxelles Gramophone & Typewriter Ltd Gueissaz Fils & Cie, L’Auberson Hasse, Wm. F., New York Heppe, C.j., Philadelphia (3) Hoffman, Carl, Kansas City (2) Hug & Co., Zurich Hupfeld – Solophonola, Duophonola, Triphonola (2) Hupfeld / J.M. Grob & Co. Hupfeld Electro-pianos & Orchestrions Jacot Music Box Co., Stella Music Boxes

Junod, Aubert & Cie., Sainte-Croix Kalliope 1905 Kalliope 1911 Mermod various Leabarjan manufacturing Co. Limonaire Freres, Organettes Photocopy leaflet Limonaire Freres – Colour catalogue Limonaire Freres – 1921 Lyon & Healy, Chicago Marquette Piano Company – The Cremona Mermod & Co., New York Mira-Phone, New York Mira Catalogue – Stella Johnson Molinari Carousal Organs, Cylinder Pianos, New York Nicole Freres, London, Musical Boxes Operators Pianos Company, Chicago – Reproduco & Coinola Regina & Reginaphone Ruth, A & Sohn – Waldkirch Segdefield’s Stereographs Stella – various Triumphauto Player Piano (2) Ullmann, Charles Wilhelm Bruder Sohne, Waldkirch Wellershaus Weiser, Amb. Wurlitzer Unit Orchestra Wurlitzer organette “Nachtrag zum Musik-Katalog” German reproduction catalogues (3), unidentified Photocopies of various organette adverts

Modern Day Traders Literature

Electronic Media

Visual Media

Films 8 m.m. format 3" spool MBSGB Dinner 1968 " " Banquet - date unknown " " Guiness & Ryder " " MBSI - date unknown 4" " MBS 1971 7" " Santa Monica " " U.S.A. 1965 16 m.m. format 5" spool Silver Swan - Bowes Museum 7" Spool. This colourful world. S.F.Sunley 10 1/2" spool preliminary discussions on formation of a chapter of MBSI in England, June 1962.

(Above films now copied onto 2 DVDs) 35 m.m. slides Qty 65 America 1965

34 M.B.S. Meeting 1967 25 various MBS meetings

5 MBSI Chains of office Video Tape Llandridod Wells Victorian Festival 1988 David Pilgrim MBSGB Meeting 1992 Cambridge & Cotton Museum MBSGB Meeting Worcester 3/93:Lyn Wright & Adrian Little: Automata MBSGB Meeting Dawlish 4/95 MBSGB AGM Ashorne Hall 1997, Cotton Museum1997 (not MBS meeting) Old School Xmas 1997; Alan Wyatt’s 1997; Keith & Richard at Hitchin Xmas 1997 Miscellaneous Events from 1998 – 2003 MBSGB Grand Tour 1994 of Black Forest – Robert Hough Musical Boxes & Automata, 1998, 40 mins, Keith Harding Museum. Old School; Cotton; Ashford MBS 1998 The Bygone World of Mechanical Music, 45 mins, Keith Harding (AT189) Sounds of the Past, Ted Brown, 1999, 60 minutes. Giovanni Racca & his Piano Melodico, 30 mins, in English 1999 Museum of Automata (York, England) The Beautiful World of Mechanical Music Musical Museum ? DVD Alan Pratt Talk One Man Band – The Musical Museum (early film of Frank Holland) Royal Music Machines – Nationaal Museum van Speelklok tot Pierment Canon Wintle – several short clips on DVD provided by Peter Whitehead/Paul Baker AMMI film of Da Vinci Mechanical Drum project, 2009

Patel Philippe Museum – Automata and watches. Copy of 8mm. films mentioned above Copy of 16mm. films mentioned above The Secret Life of an Organ Builder (Alan Pell Organs) Clips of Canon Wintle provided by Peter Whitehead via Paul Baker MBSGB – Utrecht visit 2006 (Doug Pell) MBSGB – Brentford 2008 (Doug Pell) MBSGB – Eastham 2008, 2 DVDs Doug Pell MBSGB 50th Anniversary (compiled by John Farmer) MBSGB 1992 Worcester,1994 Harrogate & York Museum,1998 Guildford, Canterbury, Rye & Derby Doug Pell MBSGB 1995, Dawlish & Paul Corins, 1996 Ashorne Hall,Guildford, Chichester, Hereford, 1997 Ted Brown’s, John Turner’s,1999 Wakefield, Saltaire, Saddington, 2000 Southwell MBSGB Organ Grinds 1981 - 1986 Sounds of the Past – The Victorian Music Room (Ted Brown Collection) Lecoultre Granger 3809 recorded at the Revelstoke Museum AIMM La Passion des Automates (2011) Musik aus der Dose (?German Society?) 2011/2 The Anatomy of a Singing Bird Box Triple J Productions Musical Moments Photo CD Aeolian Catalogues - .jpg files, Kevin McElhone Italy 2007 photos – Doug Pell ? Teme Valley Winders Nov 2006 photos – Doug Pell Teme Valley Winders Jun 2007 photos – Doug Pell Amica Technicalities (provided by PPG) Photos & .pdf files

Audio Media

Cassettes Cyril de Vere Green Memorial Service 1983. c.60 cassette Keith Hardings Museum - MMM003 Varkhaus Museum, Finland - Music of Yesteryear Jim Weir - Stella Music Box Canon Wintle B.B.C. Broadcasts 1954/55 Out of the Attic (Musical Museum, Brentford) Organette Mega Tape – Kevin McElhone MBSGB Meeting 1967 4 x tapes of Barrel Organ Music, 1 marked “Vincent” Norman Viince (Kevin McElhone) Pianovo (Kevin McElhone) Ted Brown’s Barrel Organ (Kevin McElhone) 26 “ Stella (Jim Weir) Reel to Reel (ALL TRANSFERRED TO ONE CASSETTE BY K.McElhone 1997) 3" content unknown 4" " " 4" MBS 17.5.1970 4" Victor Borge 5" MBS committee 1.12.67 5" music boxes

5" Keith Harding talk with B.B.C. 7" MBS Oct 1969. L.P. records Vic Hammet, Wurlitzer Organ (Boulevard 4014). London Barrel Organs – Harry Smith (Contour 2870106) Audio CD Canon A O Wintle 4 CDs of various broadcasts The Story of Onward Christian Soldiers, 1999, John Turner. Reginald Reynolds "The Paderewski of the Player Piano" (PPG) Nimbus NI8814 Chopin - Played Alfred Cortot " NI8809 Grainger - " Percey Grainger " NI8815 Liszt - Arthur Freidheim Die Elite der Pianisten - GFSSM - 2001 Masters of the Piano Roll (Sampler) KDV Historic Concours, Acoustic Recordings KDV Historic Concours, Electrical Recordings The Sea-Side Wurlitzer – 50 tunes Mechanische Musik aus den Technik Museen Sinsheim & Speyer Recording of LeCoultre-Granger musical box 3809 (Ref The Music Box Winter 2009) Voulez vous Danser ? – 35th Anniversary of AAIMM Limonaire Freres Waldkirch, model 265 Musique de Geneve – Osterreichischen Akademie de Wissenschaften/Gesellschaft fur Selbspielende Musikinstrumente e.v. Racca Music (A. Cunliffe) Pianist 14 CD The Prinsen Ghysel Collection 2007 (M.O.O.S.) Gebr Weber Automatische Capelle (Waldkirch) Mortier Dance Organ in Speyer Technik Museum

Digital Media

Computer CD/DVD Lexicon Musicautomaten - CD Encyclopaedia of Mechanical Music - by Schott. AMMI – Mechanical Drum project, photos and presentation. MBSGB Logos DVD - 3 copies of The Music Box Index, final version DVD - Also 1 each of versions 2.2, 2.3, draft2 MBSGB Postcard book “Printers Master” MBSGB Tunes Sheet supplement 3 & Search Engine 3.5” floppy MBSGB Constitution (old copy) MBSGB 50th Anniversary compilation of old video clips Renaissance Discs Catalogue MBSI Index 1966-1996 Arthur Cunliffe Cylinder Box Register Sept 2014

Patents for Mechanical Devices

12 various in form of calendar for 1981 (German) " " " 1982. List of German Patents Bauer F.L. & Roder C.A. 83740 01.11.1894 Capitaine & Hertling 71954 11.10.1892 Fraenkel W. 11045 1912 Hambruch H.F. 43539 23.09.1887 Hardy R.J. 23441 1912 " 26553 1912 Junghans A. 140211 29.08.1902 Mucker J.E. 79003 06.09.1893 Otto, Gustav 116422 13.01.1900 Quentin de Gromard 1401 1863 Patents U.S.A. M.Boom E.Parr P.Lochmann – Symphonion (9) Symphonion - New York (12) J.Bornand ( 3) Perfection Music Box Company (3) P.Ehrlich (3) F.A.Richter G.A.Brachhausen – Regina (22) P.Riessner - Polyphon F.G.Otto & Son, Criterion & Olympia (7) Mermod Freres – Stella (2) " " - Mira (3) " " - Miscellaneous ( 5) Miscellaneous Projectionless discs ( 4) Miscellaneous tune shifting (2) Thorens American Music Box Company (3) Note discs of Music sheets for Musical Boxes – Booklet of 12 Miscellaneous music box patents11 Brunswick Balke Collender Talking Machine Co.(5) F.F.Douglass Talking Machine Company (10) Junod Patent List (from H.A.V.Bullied) 1995 Bound volume of 59 from various US Makers List of US patents 6pp. Tomasso 16,440 - 1908

Museums - Leaflets & Catalogues

United Kingdom List of 39 locations where Mechanical Music can be seen in British Isles (pre 1993) Musical Museum – Brentford (Many brochures in brown envelope) Mechanical Music and Doll Collection – Chichester (3) Thursford Collection – Fakenham (2) Forest of Dean Mechanical Organ Museum (2) Rushworth & Dreaper collection – Liverpool (3) Victoria & Albert Museum Museum of Entertainment - Whaplode Napton Nickeloden/Ashorne Hall (Several brochures) Turners Musical Merry go Round (2) RyeTreasury of Mechanical Music Museum of Mechanical Music – York (2) Rutland Cottage Mechanical Music & Fairground Museum Reed organ and Harmonium Museum – Saltaire Mechanical Music Museum – Cotton (3) Paul Corin’s Magnificent Music Machines (3) St. Alban’s Organ Museum West Cornwall Museum of Mechanical Music (2) Finchcocks – Tunbridge Wells (3) Keith Harding’s World of Mechanical Music (2) Amersham Fair Organ Museum Milestones – Hampshire Neville Blakey Music & Cultural Trust – Lancashire Bourneville Carillon Arthur Clarke collection of Fairground & Dutch Organs Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre Victorian Music Room – Buck’s Green National Fairground Museum – Northamptonshire Devon Museum of Mechanical Music Birmingham Science Museum, The Music Room, summary of instruments 1991 Salomons Museum, Tunbridge Wells (Welte Philharmonic) (3) Pipes in the Peaks Sweden Bill Lindewall’s Toy Museum – Stockholm (several brochures in envelope) Japan About 20 brochures of museums, in Japanese! Australia Fernihough Phonograph & Music Box Collection – Dalkeith Chris & Tom Coxall’s Mechanical Music Museum, Lynoch, South Australia New Zealand Michael Woolf collection of Mechanical Music

Finland Museum of Mechanical Music - Warkaus Denmark Mekanisk Musik Museum - Copenhagen Italy Marino Marini Collection – Ravenna (book, Introductive Guide to MM Instruments) Museo degli Strumenti Musicali Meccani ‘Amarcord’, Cremona Musicalia, Cesena Belgium Orgel Museum – Brugge (2) Orgel Museum van het Waasland Stedelijk Museum – Sint-Niklaas Netherlands Pianola Museum - Amsterdam House of Music Boxes – Niuew Stuttenburgh (5) Nationaal Museum van Speeldoos tot Pierement (9) Switzerland Fredy’s Mechnisches Musikmuseum Musee Baud - L'Auberson (3) Museum of Timekeepers & Mechanical Music – Oberhofen (3) Museum of Music Automatons – Seewen (9) Wunderwelt der Mechanischen Musik – Basel Musee du Nord Vaudois (4 museums) Patek Philippe Germany Museum fur Mechanische Musikinstrumente - Baden-Baden Black Forest Museum - Triberg Das Museum der mechanischen Musik - Braunschweig Siegfried's Mechanisches Musikkabinett – Rudesheim (2) Sinsheim & Speyer Technik Museums (Several brochures & see book list) Mechanishes Musik Museum – Simmershausen (2) Das Drehorgel Museum – Kapellenweg (Dr. Ullrich Wimmer) (2) Mechanishes Musik Museum – Ladenburg A. Kessler’s Nostalgisches Musikparadies – Oberhasli Deutsches Musikautomaten-Museum im Schloss Bruschal France Maison de la Musique Mecanique - Mirecourt Musee National de Monaco - Monaco Musee de Musique Mecanique – Botforn de Combrit Musee de Musique Mecanique – Paris Musee de Musique Mecanique – Les Gets

USA The Musical Museum - Deansboro, New York Musical Wonderhouse – Wiscasset (2) The Time Museum – Rockford, Illionis Musee Mecanique – The Cliff House, San Fransisco Cars & Music of Yesterday, Sarasota.

Brochures of Special Events

United Kingdom 1972 – 13th Dec – Concert, Queen Elizabeth Hall, inc. Duo-Art performance 1977 – Knowl Hill Steam Rally 1978 – 16th July – Flight Barrel Organ Rededication, Stratfield Saye (by Freddy Hill) 1980 – 7thDec – 13th Apr – Musical Boxes, Science Museum, London (on loan from National Technical Museum, Prague) 1984 – 10-22nd Jul – Int. Pianola Festival & Exhibition, Fairfield Halls, Croydon 1986 – 3rd Aug – Chanctonbury Ring Open Day 1987 – 4-13th Sep – Llandrindod Wells Victorian Festival 1988 – 29 Sept – Musical Museum trustees meeting 1988/89 – 8th Nov – 23rd Jan – The World of Mech. Music, Prescot Museum, Merseyside 1994 – 13-14th Aug – Model Fair & Mechanical Music Festival, Grampian Transport Museum 1996 – 22nd Jun – Mechanical Music Fair by MBSGB, Winter Gardens, Ilkley 1998 – 2-6 Sept – Great Dorset Steam Fair 1986 – FOPS Calendar, Fairground Organ at Night 1987 – 27 Sept MBSGB/MBSI Banquet dinner 2015 – Rachmaninoff at the South Bank 2015 - Winchester Organ Festival USA 1983 – 31 Aug – 4 Sep – 34th Annual Meeting MBSI, Philadelphia 1989 – 13th Aug – 22nd Sep – The Regina Exhibit, MBSI Lockwood Mathews Mansion Museum, Norwalk, Connecticut Switzerland 1983 – 14-17th Jul – 2nd Int. Drehorgel Festival, Thun 1996 – Bicentenary of the Musical Box, Saint-Croix Germany 1976 – 6th Nov – 18th Dec – Alte Spielhuren im Haues Pesch, Koln 1980 – 29th Apr-9th May – MBSI Tour to Germany & Hannover Festival 1981 – 30th Apr – 3rd May – 8th Int. Drehorgel Festival, Hannover 1981 – 15-16th May – Helios in Concert, Werner & Ilona Baus, Fuldatal 1984 – 8-16th Jul – Rhine Valley Tour, MBSGB 1987 – 2-5th Jul – 8th Int. Drehorgelfest, Berlin 1982 – 200 Jahre Drehorgelbau Ignaz Blasius Bruder, Waldkirch 2014 Waldkirch Organ Festival France 1989/90 – 28th Oct – 7th Jan – 150th. Anniversary of L’Epee Musee du Chateau Montbeliard 1991 – 20-22nd Sept – 2nd Recontres Int. D’Orgues de Barbarie, Castelmoron 2000 – 14-17th Jul – 9th Festival Int. de la Musique Mecanique

Belgium 1983 – 5th Oct – Int Orgelfestival,Bursens Tovert Muziek vi Hout

(100th Anniversary of Bursens), Hoboken, Antwerp Italy 2015 Longiano Organ Festival

European Project 2015 Longiano