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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…

Wood, cardboard tubes, paper, string, tape, nails

Watercolour, ink and graphite on paper. Illustration of instrument (a modified sewing machine) with handwritten explanations and instructions. 14.2 x 25.7cm
Excerpt from Percy Grainger's daybooks 1944-1960: Thursday 25 October 1951
‘Red Letter day…

Percy Grainger, Sketch for ‘Sea Songs’ style, composed 1907, worked out beatless for pianola, 26 May 1922

Ink on paper

Grainger Museum Archive, MG 3/79: 1,2

Grainger was a compositional radical, a fact that
was not well known to a public accustomed to
compositions like ‘Country Gardens’. ‘Train Music’
shows Grainger’s experimentation with irregular
metres. His note at the top indicates that…

Card, paper, ink.

The towel clothes in the Grainger Museum are one of the highlights of the Costume Collection. Numbering 26 individual pieces or outfit, the towel clothes represent the Graingers’ innovative ideas and creativity in dress. Percy Grainger wrote about…

Printed card

he top of the shorts are made of a woven material and the fringing (which starts mid thigh) is layered in a striped pattern on the right and checked pattern on the left leg. No fastening at the waist.

Black and white towelling cropped jacket with three quarter sleeves and centre front opening.