I had an organ booking at Speke Hall near Liverpool this weekend and I was taken to see an interesting collection of looped paper music in their archive, which have no information associated with them.
There appears to be twenty-something notes (based on a rough approximation of slot spacing), so I can only assume it would have been a keyless hand-turned organ of some kind?
Does anyone know what these are and what would they have been played on?
I can only assume that it is some form of early Karaoke (heaven forbid!), where a verse is played in a loop for people to sing along with!
The music is about 5 and a half inches wide (138mm).
File comment: The collection in the Speke Hall archive
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File comment: One of the music loops with the title "Sun of my soul"
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File comment: Close up of the title
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File comment: A direction of play arrow!
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File comment: The slots seem relatively large (I didn't measure them)
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File comment: An extract of the list of titles. The measurements should be in millimetres and not centimetres.
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File comment: Another title list extract, with more 'modern' titles!
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Photo's taken by yours truly, with the kind permission of the National Trust.
Speke Hall also has a weight driven Imhof and Mukle barrel organ, which I am hoping they will send me a picture to show on here, because the hall contains a number of items owned by other collections and the copyright owners don't allow photography in the hall (even though the organ is owned by the National Trust).