Browse Items (337 total)

1. Eiraku Wazen, Japan, Nine tea cups, late 19th century-early 20th century. Purchased by Rose Grainger on 4 November 1920 from Wahman & Co., New York. 01.0184
2. Unknown maker, South Africa, Seed pod. Seed pod with repeated design of fine copper…

This metallophone has bronze keys, each fitted below with a hollow bronze resonator. The beautiful embossing on each resonator, in Japonisme style, is a remarkable feature. The instrument is created from elements constructed by multiple makers,…

Printing-out paper print.

Photo: 9.3 x 14.2 cm
Photo and board: 10.3 x 16.5 cm
Envelope: 11.4 x 26.3 cm
View of Percy Grainger as a baby. He is depicted naked and lying on his right side on a blanket with his eyes closed. His left arm is…

Sheet-fed photo gravure print
(Bruchmann Mezzotint gravures, printer)

28.5 x 22 cm

This portrait depicts Rose Grainger sitting in a plush armchair. She is wearing a long off shoulder dress with flowing skirts and organza. As described by the…

Iron, wood, steel, ivory, ebony, nails.

Keen to explore the possibilities of Free Music, but lacking instruments that would readily play the ‘noteless’ gliding tones it required, Grainger and Cross modified existing instruments to make…

Tribute to Grainger conducted by Keith Humble, and tickets to the event, 1976

Grainger Museum Archive, HO1196

35mm slide, Grainger Museum Archive, 99.600.1 In 1976, ABC Television made a documentary about Grainger’s Free Music experiments, interviewing Burnett Cross, who was visiting the Grainger Museum in order to restore Percy Grainger’s Kangaroo Pouch…

Maureen Bang, 'Even Cooking is Music to Him', The Australian Women's Weekly, August 1973, detail
Collection of John Whiteoak