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This photograph was taken at the Grainger home at White Plains, USA. Other photographs in the Grainger Museum Collection depict Ella Grainger also working with Percy Grainger and Burnett Cross, on this same experiment. It is likely that Ella Grainger…

Donated to the Grainger Museum by Burnett Cross on 19 April 1994

This photograph shows the Grainger and Cross's Kangaroo Pouch Tone Tool Free Music machine installed in the Grainger Museum, probably in the late 1950s. The machine was not fully complete when it was installed, and Cross visited the Grainger Museum…

The box of Free Music components that this object is part of contains scraps of wood, metal, paper and rubber.
- Wood and felt frame (musical instrument?)
- Small piece of cardboard with electronic components attached - transformer, potentiometer,…

Large, upright wooden frame with cross beams at side. Two vertical poles / tubes at each side divided into four sections with acetate discs. Paper reels (cut to represent pitch) are fed through a series of metal poles - a roller runs along top (cut)…

Photograph of Free Music experiments with Grainger's Duo Art player piano, and types notes by Grainger describing the experiment