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COOL!!! Thanks, Frank, and congratulations! On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 1:44 PM Frank Ferko <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > > The Archive of Recorded Sound at Stanford University is pleased to > announce the completion of the processing of the Richard J. Howe > Collection of Musical Instrument Literature. An illustrated blogpost by > our Project Archivist, Gurudarshan Khalsa, has been posted on the ARS web > site, and the finding aid is available on the Online Archive of California > (OAC). > > > > The largest known collection of its kind, the Howe Collection of Musical > Instrument Literature contains material about the manufacture of pianos, > organs, and mechanical musical instruments from 1838 to 2002. The materials > include catalogs, books, magazines, correspondence, photographs, > broadsides, advertisements, and price lists. The collection was created, > and originally donated to the University of Maryland, by Richard J. Howe. > It was transferred to the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound in 2015 to > support the Player Piano Project, which now includes ten mechanical pianos > and more than 15,000 piano rolls. > > Blogpost for the Howe Collection of Musical Instrument Literature: > > https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford-libraries-blog/2018/09/unique-items-found-howe-collection-musical-instrument > > Finding aid for the Howe Collection of Musical Instrument Literature: > https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8cc1668/ > > Player Piano Project > http://library.stanford.edu/projects/player-piano-project > > We invite you to explore this massive collection and to share the link > information with researchers, faculty, and students who are interested in > the study of musical instruments. > > With best regards, > > Frank Ferko > Sound Archives Librarian > Archive of Recorded Sound > Braun Music Center > 541 Lasuen Mall > Stanford, CA 94305 > 650-721-2142 > -- Madeline Dietrich 414-687-8744