The Museum of Music: A History of Mechanical Instruments

1. Percy A. Scholes , The Appreciation of Music by Means of the “Pianola” and “Duo-Art” (London Oxford University Press, 1925), Foreword.

2. Alexander Buchner , Mechanical Musical Instruments (trans. By Iris Urwin ) (London Batchworth Press, 1961), p. 24.

3. For more on the barrel organ, see John E. T. Clark, Musical Boxes: A History and An Appreciation (London The Fountain Press, 1952), pp. 138ff.

4. Buchner, p. 79.

5. For a picture of this instrument, see Lucius R. Wyatt , “The Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments,” Music Educators Journal, Vol. 53, No. 6 (February 1967), p. 49.

6. Many of these rolls have been flawlessly reproduced on Argo Recordings, DA 41, 42, and 43.

7. Lewis Graham, Curator-director of the Museum of Music is seeking permanent quarters for the collection.