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Society for Self-Playing Musical Instruments
(Gesellschaft für Selbstspielende Musikinstrumente e.V.)
The "Society for Self-Playing Musical Instruments" was founded in 1975 with the aim of investigating, maintaining and encouraging the cultural tradition of self-playing musical instruments. This international association has around 700 members, among them many institutions such as musicological institutes and national libraries, but in particular collectors and lovers of these instruments. The Society's journal, which is published several times a year and distributed free to the Society's members, includes specialist contributions on mechanical instruments and their music as well as the latest information and collectors' announcements. Society activities include collectors' meetings, exhibitions and fairs where collectors can buy and exchange, and sight-seeing tours.
Numerous museum foundations, concerts, auctions and
collectors'
meetings bear witness to the enormous world-wide appreciation of
mechanical
musical instruments. The "Society for Self-playing Musical
Instruments",
a registered charity, represents all these interests and informs its
members
about all aspects of mechanical music.
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Various methods of storing sound information for self-playing musical instruments: pinned barrel, perforated cardboard and tin discs, cardboard and paper music rolls. |
Our Journal "Das Mechanische
Musikinstrument"
, which is issued several times a year, is sent free to members. The
annual
subscription is currently € 60.-- .
For further information please contact:
| Ralf Smolne
Emmastr. 56 D - 45130 Essen GERMANY |
Tel. **49-201-784927 Fax **49-201-7266240 |
or make use of this Contact
Form
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Last update: July 25, 2004