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Player Piano Rolls

 Accession
Identifier: MUS-550

Content Description

60 Piano rolls for a player piano made of paper and metal. From Gaston, Oregon. Attached to the old Pacific Museum records is a list printed from a typewriter of the 35 songs on the rolls and an "extra box" with another 20 songs. On the "left side of box": 1. A Perfect Day - Carrie J. Bond 2. I'm in Heaven When I'm in My Mother's Arms - Ballad 3. Melody in F 4. Lucia de Lammermoor 5. Liebstraum 6. Thais 7. Waltz - Moskowski 8. Isabelle - Waltz 9. Prelude Op. 3, No. 2 - Rachmaninoff 10. Valse, Caprice Op. 116 - Roff 11. Lorraine - Played by Lee S. Roberts 12. Bohemian folk Songs - Played by Marguerite Volavy 13. Harlequin Waltz 14. Washing That Dreams Would Come True - Ballad 15. That Tumble-down Shack in Athlone Combinola Novelties #6 1-6 Combinola Novelties #1. On the "right side of box": 1. Hymn - It Came Upon The Midnight Clear 2. The Last Smile - Wollenhaupt 3. American Patrol - Medley 4. Old Oake Bucket - Trans. by T.P. Ryder 5. Roses of Lorraine - Fox trot 6. Beautiful Isle of Somewhere - Medium voise 7. Echos of the Ball - Waltz - Gillet 8. Hawaiian butterfly - Fox trot 9. Hawaiian lullaby - Waltz 10. Water-nymph - Nevin 11. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny 12. Sweet Hawaiian Moonlight - Waltz 13. Abide With Me - Sacred Song 14. My Old Kentucky Home 15. When You Look In the Heart of a Rose 16. In the Gloaming - Harrison 17. A Little Birch Canoe - Waltz 18. a. O Come All Ye Faithful b. Holy, Holy, Holy c. Come Thou Almighty King 19. Mickey - Ballad 20. Cleo - Fox trot. In the "Extra box" list: 1. That Wonderful Mother of Mine - ballad 2. Hawaiian Nights - Waltz 3. Scherzo - Valse - Godard 4. Canary Cottage Selections 5. Fruhlinger Auschen - Sinding 6. Paganini Etude #5 - Liszt 7. Barcarolle - Tschaikowsky 8. Bonnie Sweet Bessie - Selections 9. I'll Take You Back to Italy - Jass Fox Trot (Irving Berlin) - Played by Harold Scott and Jeff Waters 10. Schubert Op. 96 - Valse - Morena 11. Smiles - Fox Trot - Played by Erlbach and Herzhog 12. Hymn Medley 13. Face to Face - Herbert Johnson 14. Tales of Hoffman 15. The Holy City 16. The Prayer Perfect 17. Mother Machree - Ballad 18. Joan of Arc - Words by Alfred Bryan and Willie Weston, Music by Jack Wells 19. Eldorado - Polka 20. Stars and Stripes Forever - Sousa - March Several other rolls not listed. All but three rolls have original boxes.

Acquisition Type

Gift

Restrictions Apply

No

Dates

  • 1850-1950

Extent

60 items

Source