Guide to the Peter H. Adams collection of musical instrument catalogs M2606

Gurudarshan Khalsa

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

2021

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford 94305-6064

specialcollections@stanford.edu

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: Peter H. Adams collection of musical instrument

catalogs

Creator: Adams, Peter H.

source: Adams, Peter H.

Identifier/Call Number: M2606

Physical Description: 3.75 Linear Feet 8 manuscript boxes and 1 flat box

Date (inclusive): 1857-2018

Content Description

The Peter H. Adams collection of

musical instrument

catalogs consists primarily of

musical instrument

catalogs and materials related to

musical instruments

. The catalogs are arranged alphabetically, A-Z, by company, and the Lyon & Healy Company is the most represented company. There are also catalogs of

musical instrument

dealers also organized alphabetically. A subcollection of pamphlets owned and/or written by Helen R. Hollis, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution, is also included. Other materials in the collection include

musical instrument

methods and tutors, catalogs of music, published and unpublished papers and articles on

musical instruments

, correspondence with Peter Adams, periodical issues on

musical instruments

, miscellaneous documents and a card game about opera.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Peter H. Adams collection of

musical instrument

catalogs (M2606). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, California.

Conditions Governing Use

While Special Collections is the owner of the physical items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual & born-digital materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Adams, Peter H.

Dealer catalogs

Box 1, Folder 1

Acousta Grip - Aulos 1911-2017

Box 1, Folder 2

Begin, Louis - Cundy-Bettoney Company 1857-2016

Box 1, Folder 3

Folkers & Powell 1868-2017

Box 1, Folder 4

Galileo - GuitarJack 1923-2017

Box 1, Folder 5

Haines Brothers - Hulbert Brothers circa 1889-2017

Box 2, Folder 1

Johnson, Timothy G. - Lyricon 1890-2016

Box 2, Folder 2

Lyon & Healy 1937-2013

Box 2, Folder 3

Lyon & Healy 1907

Box 2, Folder 4

Lyon & Healy 1910

Box 2, Folder 5

Lyon & Healy - band instruments 1886-1919

Box 8, Folder 5

Lyon & Healy - band instruments

Box 3, Folder 1

Lyon & Healy - band instruments 1910-1924

Box 3, Folder 2

Lyon & Healy - Everything Know in Music 1916

Box 3, Folder 3

Lyon & Healy - harps 1979-2013

Box 3, Folder 4

Lyon & Healy - Musician's Handbook 1905

Box 3, Folder 5

Lyon & Healy - Record News 1938-1940

Box 3, Folder 6

Lyon & Healy - violins 1917-1948

Box 3, Folder 7

Margueritat - Notion Music 1880-2012

Box 4, Folder 1

Pollmann, August 1894

Box 4, Folder 2

Paramount Banjos - Robinson & Ross 1909-2006

Box 8, Folder 6

J.W. Pepper & Son

Box 4, Folder 3

Saur Early Strings Workshops - Suzuki 1906-2018

Box 8, Folder 7

Schimmel Pianos 2005

Box 4, Folder 4

Ternovec, Marco - Tonk Brothers Company 1930-2017

Box 4, Folder 5

Unprofitable Instruments - Von Huene Workshop 1927-2017

Box 5, Folder 1

Ward - Zuchowicz. Also includes Cyrillic catalog 1892-2010s

Instrument catalogs

Box 5, Folder 2

Boulder Early Music Shop - Connolly 1930-2013

Box 5, Folder 3

Czechoslovak Music Company - F.N. Fugate

Box 5, Folder 4

Harris-Teller Inc. - House of Musical Traditions circa 1972-2011

Box 5, Folder 5

Illinois Musical Supply Company - The Woodward

Helen Haddis collection

Box 6, Folder 1

Catalogue of Early Keyboard Instruments at Fenton House - Harpsichords and Clavichords 1957-1969

Box 6, Folder 2

The Influence of the Eighteenth-Century Piano on the Music of Joseph Haydn - Italian Harpsichord Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries 1960-1982

Box 6, Folder 3

Keyboard Instruments - The Musical Instruments of Joseph Haydn 1958-1985

Box 6, Folder 4

On the Origin of the Keyboard Mechanism in the Late Middle Ages - Social Emulation and Industrial Progress: The Victorian Piano 1966-1981

Music catalogs, library and museum exhibit catalogs, and other materials

Box 6, Folder 5

Music catalogs 1891-2016

Box 6, Folder 6

Library and museum exhibit catalogs 1990

Box 7, Folder 1

Library and museum exhibit catalogs 1960-1992

Box 7, Folder 2

Library and museum exhibit catalogs 1997-1998

Box 7, Folder 3

Orion Blue Book - Vintage Guitar Fall, 1996

Box 7, Folder 4

Opern Quartett, nr. 286, Ferdinand Piatnik & Söhne - playing cards

Box 7, Folder 5

Instrument pedagogy 1926-1990

Box 7, Folder 6

Instruments inventory, offprints and articles 1931-2003

Box 7, Folder 7

Horvath: philomela violin - newspaper article 1998

Box 7, Folder 8

Instrument and music periodical issues 1880-1991

Box 8, Folder 1

Instrument and music periodical issues 1897-1898

Box 8, Folder 2

Willis M. Gault: Washington D.C. Violin Maker 1985

Box 8, Folder 3

Haydn's Klaviere: Haydn's Stringed Keyboard Instruments 1970

Box 8, Folder 4

Peter Adams correspondence 1992-2001

Box 9, Folder 1

Besson Brass - Godin Guitars 1895-2004

Box 9, Folder 2

Lyon & Healy 1880-1933

Box 9, Folder 3

Lyon & Healy 1883

Box 9, Folder 4

Mason & Hamlin

Box 9, Folder 5

J.W. Pepper & Son - Peace Musical Company

Box 9, Folder 6

E.T. Root & Son - Steinway 1923-1933

Box 9, Folder 7

Articles and illustrations 1881-1891