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Lynch Family Bellringers, Glassophonists, Instrumentalists, Vocalists & Comedians poster, 1920s
The Lynch Family were renowned for using many unusual instruments, including handbells, organ chimes, glasses, and a metallophone (‘the Marimba Resonators’). This latter instrument, described as ‘the only instrument of its kind in the world’, is an…
LP Album cover, 50 Synthesizer Greats, David Chesworth
Sound artist David Chesworth was only 21 when he composed and recorded '50 Synthesizer Greats'. Originally self-released, the album 50 Synthesizer Greats is actually 37 tracks of minimal synth investigations, full of humour and playful…
Lotus shoes 莲花鞋
DESCRIPTION: silk, thread, linen, wooden base.
OVERVIEW: Shoes are conical or sheath-shaped, intended to imitate the shape of lotus flowers. They are made of cotton or silk, so small that they can be put into the palm of your hand. Some designs have…
OVERVIEW: Shoes are conical or sheath-shaped, intended to imitate the shape of lotus flowers. They are made of cotton or silk, so small that they can be put into the palm of your hand. Some designs have…
List of Sendings to Grainger Museum, 1940
Card, paper, ink.
Life-sized mannequin of Percy Grainger, made for displays in the Grainger Museum, and letter from Percy Grainger to Kathleen Rogers regarding mannequin construction, October 1951
Display mannequin, created from tape, calico, cardboard, cotton, gauze, Plaster of Paris, straw, thread. Size: 170 x 60. Letter from Grainger Museum Archive.
This mannequin was made by Kathleen and William Rogers, at Arch Hill Studio, Albany Post…
This mannequin was made by Kathleen and William Rogers, at Arch Hill Studio, Albany Post…
Life-sized mannequin of Ella Grainger
Display mannequin, created from tape, calico, cardboard, cotton, gauze, Plaster of Paris, straw, thread. Size: 161 x 53cm. Letter from the Grainger Museum Archive
This mannequin was made by Kathleen and William Rogers, at Arch Hill Studio, Albany…
This mannequin was made by Kathleen and William Rogers, at Arch Hill Studio, Albany…
Letter from Percy Grainger to Mrs Kathleen Rogers, Nov 27, 1951, regarding museum display mannequins
Typed letter with inscription
Letter from Ormond Professor Bernard Heinze to Percy Grainger, 25 September 1936, and accompanying photograph of the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne.
In this letter, Heinze shares an image of the Grainger Museum at the completion of its first phase, with Percy Grainger. Grainger had participated in early design of the Museum, but was obliged to leave the project with the local team of architects,…
Letter from Nellie Melba to Percy Grainger, sent from Portsea, 29 August 1916
Rose entrusted Melba with the secret of her own illness from syphilis. A month after writing to Percy about his father, Melba wrote, ‘I have received your letter & also read your Mother’s letter to Bella. I am so sorry for her & so humiliated that…
Letter from J.C. Deagan to Percy Grainger, Chicago, 19 October 1916
Grainger enjoyed ‘liberty of the factory’ of J.C. Deagan, as he worked closely with the instrument maker to develop instruments specific to the new orchestral timbres he was seeking to create. In this letter, Deagan writes to Grainger regarding the…