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Total number of records: 184

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives167
Books and printed items17

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture161
Brotherton Collection10
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection5
Herbert Read Collection2
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
musical instruments184
play161
culture135
folk music120
community life73
occupations59
english language - dialects56
manners and customs54
persons42
social life and customs34

Count of Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom4
Gibraltar2
Genoa, Italy1
Great Britain1
Turin, Italy1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Dunn, Ginette15
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)14
Russell, Ian10
Sullivan, Keith Frederick10
Chapman, Mr9
Harrison, Stephen9
Hart, Bob (1892-1978)7
Taylor, Barry Roy6
Webb, Percy6
Alderson, Richard5

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From 16002
From 17002
From 180012
From 1900168

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Up to 189910
Up to 1999170

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Board of Elders, Catholic Church, Gibraltar to Novello, Vincent

12 Jul 1837

Handwritten letter from the Board of Elders of the Catholic Church, Gibralter, to Vincent Novello, thanking Novello for his role in supervising the installation of a new organ.

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Martin, T. to Novello, Vincent

28 Nov 1846

Handwritten letter on behalf of T. Martin to Vincent Novello, requesting his acceptance of a portrait of the late piano and harp maker Johann Andreas Stumpff, with a translation of the lines written u...

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John Broadwood and Sons to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

1870

Two handwritten letters from the piano manufacturer John Broadwood and Sons to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred, noting that they were about to send a pianoforte and a parcel of soap from London to Genoa and ...

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Shea, Alexander to Novello, Vincent

17 Dec 1836

Handwritten letter from Alexander Shea to Vincent Novello, acknowledging Novello's letter and expressing thanks from the Elders of the Catholic Church in Gibraltar for his assistance in obtaining an o...

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Ries, Louis to Luras [?], Miss

13 Jun 1879

Handwritten letter from the violinist Louis Ries to Miss Luras [?], requesting that she send his violin to Mr Flavell of 26 North Audley Street and apologising for giving her the task.

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The history of the violin and other instruments played on with the bow from the remotest times to the present

Sandys, William (1792-1874); Forster, Simon Andrew

1864

Includes index.

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La musique

Colomb, L C (1834-1890)

1880

"Illustré de 119 gravures dessinées sur bois par C. Colomb, C. Gilbert et Bonnafoux".

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Music and morals

Haweis, H R (1839-1901)

[1871?]

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Harmonics, or the philosophy of musical sounds

Smith, Robert (1689-1768)

1749

First edition. Of the 28 plates, all but three are folding, numbered I to XXV. With advertisement of Smith's "Complete system of optics", 1738, Cotes's "Harmonia mensurarum", 1722, and "Hydrostati...

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Musikinstrumente

Kunstgewerbemuseum Zürich

c1962

Catalogue of an exhibition held at Kunstgewerbemuseum Zurich, May 6-July 1, 1962.

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