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Title
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"Hills and dales" air-blown-reeds tone-tool No. 1
Creator
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Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961
Date
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1951
Subject
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Free Music
Type
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Drawings
Description
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watercolour, ink and graphite on paper
Illustration showing graphic elevations of the instrument. Top half of page depicts the whole instrument with parts labelled or given desciptions, bottom half of page depicts close-ups of individual joins and how they function within the instrument.
Identifier
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04.0166
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Physical Object
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Title
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"Hills and dales" air-blown-reeds tone-tool No. 6
Creator
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Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961
Date
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1951
Subject
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Free Music
Type
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Drawings
Description
An account of the resource
watercolour and ink on paper
Illustration of Instrument with details of description, materials and functions.
Identifier
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04.1710
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Title
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Moog ‘Signature’ theremin
Subject
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Free Music
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Metal, electronics</p>
<p>In 1932 Percy Grainger attended a concert of musical pieces performed on a new instrument called the theremin. This instrument, invented in 1920 by Russian physicist Lev Sergeyevich Termen (known in the USA as Léon Theremin) was a revelation to Grainger. It could produce gliding musical tones of any pitch with freely variable dynamics. When he first heard it, Grainger considered the instrument to be ‘perfectly able to carry out my intentions’. Grainger hoped to work with Léon Theremin while the</p>
<p>Russian was in America, but this idea was thwarted when Theremin returned to Russia in 1938. Grainger scored some of his Free Music for performance on the theremin.</p>
Creator
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Moog Music Inc., United States of America
Date
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1998
Type
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Experimental Instruments
Identifier
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00.0224
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Oscillator-playing tone-tool, 3rd experiment, sketched 24 November 1951, copied 12 February 1952
Subject
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Free Music
Description
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Watercolour and ink on paper.
Creator
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Percy Aldridge Grainger
Date
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Sketched 24 November 1951, copied 12 February 1952
Type
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Drawing
Identifier
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04.0182
Rights
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Copyright Grainger Estate
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Title
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Grainger Museum display legend:
Free Music
Subject
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Free Music
Description
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Ink, paper, wood, tape, glass
Grainger scored his compositions Free Music No.1 and Free Music No.2 (1936-7) for multiple theremins. These scores were reproduced by Grainger in this Free Music Legend which he made for the Grainger Museum’s official opening on 10 December 1938. The musical scores are like graphs: the y-axis indicates a pitch range from A sharp below middle C upwards for two octaves, and a volume range from ppp to fff; the x-axis indicates the flow of time. The scores were extremely difficult to perform accurately, and Grainger realised he would have to create his own instruments to bring his Free Music concept to reality.
Creator
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Percy Aldridge Grainger
Date
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6 December 1938
Type
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Framed Works on Paper
Identifier
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04.0325
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Title
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Example of swells (Estey reed tone-tool)
Subject
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Free Music
Description
An account of the resource
Ink on paper
21.4 x 14.3 cm
Creator
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Percy Aldridge Grainger
Identifier
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04.0163
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Title
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Player Piano conceived as a Free Music experiment with notes by Percy Grainger
Subject
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Free Music
Description
An account of the resource
Photograph of Free Music experiments with Grainger's Duo Art player piano, and types notes by Grainger describing the experiment
Creator
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Percy Aldridge Grainger
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1940s
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Cross Grainger experiments "Sea Song" Sketch with 3 Solovoxes played by Pianola roll
Subject
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Free Music
Creator
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Percy Aldridge Grainger
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1950
Rights
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Copyright Grainger Estate
Format
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Black and white photograph
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Title
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Sliding Pipe Free Music Invention
Subject
The topic of the resource
Free Music
Description
An account of the resource
Masonite, wire, string, tape
This invention was Grainger's first attempt at constructing an instrument which could glide smoothly from one tone to the next and which was controlled by a 'musical score' rather than a player. The sound was produced by two swanee whistles or 'Sliding Pipes' as Grainger referred to them. The whistles' pitch was altered by moving the 'musical score' - the horizontal wave cut from cardboard - past the whistles' plunge (or piston). The wave then moved the plunge up or down in accordance with the score, creating smooth gliding tones. Burnett Cross suggested that Grainger try positioning the instrument upright, so gravity would work in its favour. This led to further experiments such as the Kangaroo Pouch Free Music Machine with its upright columns.
An accomplished visual artist and highly analytical thinker, Grainger documented his Free Music experiments extensively and in great detail. The illustrations themselves show an innovative approach to documentary practice, inhabiting a middle ground between scientific accounts and aesthetically rewarding artwork. These documents reflect his desire to make ‘pretty machines’ that were at once both visually exciting and mechanically functional.
Creator
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Percy Aldridge Grainger and Burnett Cross
Date
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1946
Identifier
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01.0002
Type
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Experimental instruments
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Title
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Double reed box single tracker bar
(incomplete)
Subject
The topic of the resource
Free Music
Description
An account of the resource
Wood, plastic, string, tape, metal, masonite
This ‘reed box’ is designed somewhat like a giant
mechanically-operated mouth organ. A large strip of
paper (not present), like a pianola roll with holes cut at
calculated points, was to be rolled steadily over the
multi-coloured plastic fins, below which sit an array of
accordion reeds tuned micro-tonally to approximate the
effect of gliding tones when adjacent reeds are played.
The machine was to be operated with a vacuum cleaner
providing the necessary suction to draw air through the
holes in the paper roll and then through the reeds.
Creator
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Percy Aldridge Grainger and Burnett Cross
Date
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1954
Type
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Experimental instruments
Identifier
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06.0034