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Player Piano conceived as a Free Music experiment with notes by Percy Grainger
Photograph of Free Music experiments with Grainger's Duo Art player piano, and types notes by Grainger describing the experiment
Example of swells (Estey reed tone-tool)
Ink on paper
21.4 x 14.3 cm
21.4 x 14.3 cm
Grainger Museum display legend:
Free Music
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…
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…
Oscillator-playing tone-tool, 3rd experiment, sketched 24 November 1951, copied 12 February 1952
Watercolour and ink on paper.
Moog ‘Signature’ theremin
Metal, electronics
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…
"Hills and dales" air-blown-reeds tone-tool No. 6
watercolour and ink on paper
"Hills and dales" air-blown-reeds tone-tool No. 1
watercolour, ink and graphite on paper