New-York tribune., 1922-03-19

to which additions are eors+or.h, ..:.
mace seldom fails to bring patronage in
gratifying proportion to the accession.
or musical material"
Propagation of
Automatic Music
n unique feature in library activities
disclosed by the Bulletin is Tho c,rcul.-
'ioH OF AIDS to automatic machinc-made
music IN the shape of rolls and records
In great many instances this ararer
OF musical culturs is evidently ranked
higher than either printed music or
books. Only two libraries are reported
from Arkansas, one of which has q COL
lection of twenty-five volumes on nusic
whiie tho other, that of tho Stste
University at Fayetteville, which has
twenty-five books, 100 bound volumes
and 100 separate sheets OF music, keeps
800 records in circulation. A state
appropriation provides annually $500
for music, SIS for books on music and
Slo0 for records for mechanical play
ers. The Los Angeles (Calif.) Public
Library provides player-pianos as well
as rolls in sound proof room. The
San Diego Public Library enjoys "a
liberal appropriation" for books and
records but none for music. Colorado
gives no place to player pianos and
Photographs, nor are any records or
rOl1c rnnnrfoL
which state one library tthat Of Yale
University has over 1000 books and
5000 bound volumes Of music. Reports
are recorded from forty-seven libraries.
The Yale School of Religion owns the
church music, collected by Lowell Ma
son, and the University Library is par
ticularly strong in history, folk song
and early American music. Florida
lwhlch reports only four libraries, only
one of which has between 100 and $50
books and the same number Of bound
vclumes of music has one library with
400 playerYisao rolls. Two libraries
spend SIS each a year and one SIS. But
tals shows greater lberalty than is
known in Georgia, where there is q
single annual appropriation Of IS at
one library for books on music. One
library has twenty-five photograph
records, but not one has over twenty
five books on music. Yet Atlanta has
an annual week of opera provided bv
the Metropolitan Opera Company Of
Now York;
In Idaho the Lewiston State Norma,
( School Library has so books on music.
( forty eight separate pieces Of sheet
! music. bat 210 rolls and records. Onlv
three of ffty-eight Libraries in Illinois
report the possession of piano rolls
and two Of photograph records. None
! is reported by the Newberry Library,
which mas 1888 volumes and pam
phlets listed under music
In tire forty-one libraries Of Indiana
there s@em to be about $500 books and
abou, 900 rolls and records, l,100 of
the later in the Gary Public Library
alone. The possession OF rolls and rec
ords is reported by FIVE cut of the
fortyfivc libraries in Iowa. The an
nual expenditure of the largest library
Chat of Grinnell College School Of
Music is $500 for music, s45 for books,
s35 for records aAl $40 for rolls. an
Kansas" says the Bulletin, mot one Of
The twentyseven libraries reportinc
mentions player piano or roll,
though Photographs and records are
fairly common" In collection Of the
University of Kansas kept separate
from the library there are 900 Nictrola
records. Thirteen sets Of music rec
ords, each accompanied by a typewrit-
ten talk on some phase of music, are
sent out as travelling libraries" Three
Of the four libraries in Louisiana re-
ported to the committee, but there is
no mention Of rolls or records. Two
llbiarles in Maine have small collcc-
ton (lcss than twenty five) Of player
piano rolls and one has over 800 rec
ords. Nothing is said about automatic
music il the report from Maryland,
where the Peabody Institute in Balt-
more has 1900 books on music, 200
bound volumes Of music, besides 500
orchestral scores. Tho reports from
Massachusetts are likewise "highbrow"
in this respect. While eight libraries
report over 1000 books and seven as
many bound volumes, only one reports
over 1000 rolls, four 200 or less and
five from twenty to $50 phonograph
records. But one library (thc Brown
Collection in the Boston Public III
brary), which has $1,000 books and
$4,000 bound volumes of music and
1000 orchestral scores, does not con-
Germ itself with mechanical music in
any form. Last year $1,000 used the
music collection and the interest is in
creasing."
There is only one library in Micn-
gan THAT of the University at Ann
Arborl in which there are 1900 book
on music, but another library expends
s125 annually for rolls and records.
Two libraries report 100 or less phono
graph records. Minnesota sends in re-
ports from 90 libraries, one of which !
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