Nordic Blue Gloves

Percy Grainger's Hall of Mirrors

Of more lasting interest are the myriad musical titillations, such as the big cabinet with knobs on it, that looks like a huge domestic radiogram from the 1930s, but is actually a cleverly disguised computer. Twiddle those knobs, and you can instantly dial up a number of different sound sources, be they examples of Grainger’s music, speech, whatever. Then there’s his “butterfly piano” – part of his ‘free music’ experiments, with each note being tuned only one sixth of a tone apart, instead of a semitone, so its range is very limited. It looks for all the world like one of those tinkley toy pianos that children used to be given as presents, but on steroids. Reopened in October 2010 as part of the University of Melbourne Library, the Museum houses personal items from all parts of Grainger’s life – from the piano he practiced on as a child, to the wild and weird instruments that he conjured up to deliver his “free music”, an uninhibited world of sound. Not for Grainger the limits of just tones and semitones of a piano keyboard. He wanted to release the music from in between the cracks – a continuous tonal swoop, such as that made by an air-raid siren or swanee whistle. He was also very concerned that these innovations be preserved for the musicians of the future. Just what sort of person do you have to be to erect a museum to your own memory? We must remember that Grainger really did build this place himself, sometimes brick by brick with his own hands. “We don’t know when Grainger first started thinking about creating an autobiographical museum,” says curator Astrid Krautschneider, “but after his mother’s death he wrote to his friend Balfour Gardiner remarking that, ‘All very intimate letters or notes should be deposited in an Australian Grainger Museum, preferably in birth-town Melbourne’.”   Grainger hoped that in opening his museum he would use his life experiences to help explain to others the creative process that drove his music. “He believed that art did not occur in a social vacuum, so he took the unconventional approach of collecting and displaying the ephemera, domestic items, clothes, etc – the very material that made up his world, alongside his music.” – in Mother’s time.) His mother Rose was an inestimable influence.

Nordic Blue Drygloves

You can put them on yourself with a bit of practice or you can just ask your buddy to help you. The buddy method: Ask him to hold the seal open with two fingers and use one finger yourself so you're stretching it to a triangle. Now you can just stick your hand in easily. Then just let go of the seal, pull out the glove a little to straighten the seal and inspect it's got no wrinkles. And here's one method to put them on yourself: http://shadowdweller.skynetblogs.

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