Violano Virtuoso Roll #2550: Museum Object and Cultural History
Violano Virtuoso Roll #2550: date made: ca 1922-1925. maker: Mills Novelty Company. Object Name: music roll.
The object in the museum catalogue
This music roll was made by Mills Novelty Company in Chicago, Illinois, about 1922-1925. It is Roll #2550, playable in a Violano Virtuoso player. The tune list for this roll is as follows:
Roll #2550 - Hand Played Classical Roll 9661: Medley of Old Favorites, arr. by J.F. Stelzl, My Old Kentucky Home, The Mocking Bird, Wearin' of the Green, Turkey In the Straw, Comin' Thru the Rye, Old Irish Washerwoman, Annie Laurie, Dixie – Finale 9662: Sometine from "Sometime" (song), Friml-Young, copyright 1918, G. Schirmer 9663: Somewhere a Voice Is Calling (ballad), A.F. Tate, copyright 1911, Harms, Inc. 9665: Every Little Movement from "Madame Sherr" (song), Hauerbach-Hoscher, copyright 1909, M. Witmark
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca 1922-1925
- maker: Mills Novelty Company
- Object Name: music roll
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 5 1/4 in x 6 in x 17 3/8 in; 13.335 cm x 15.24 cm x 44.1325 cm
- place made: United States: Illinois, Chicago
- ID Number: MI.73.11
- accession number: 289515
- catalog number: 73.11
- maker number: 2550
- Credit Line: Gift of Lewis Graham
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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