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- This button is from the Bull Moose Party Band (BMPB). It is made of yellow paper with black and red ink covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button with a pin back. The button is printed:
- I[red heart]BMPB[caricature of a moose]BULL MOOSE PARTY BAND
- The [New] Bull Moose Party Band was formed in the Log Angeles area, in 1979. The band performed Dixieland and traditional Jazz releasing two records in the 1980s. BMPS continued to perform at traditional Jazz festivals until the mid-1980s.
- Floyd Levin (1922-2007) was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. His numerous reviews, profiles, and articles were published in magazines such as Down Beat, Jazz Journal International, Metronome, and American Rag. He also authored Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- early 1980s
- user
- Levin, Floyd
- ID Number
- 2011.3086.142
- nonaccession number
- 2011.3086
- catalog number
- 2011.3086.142
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- Description (Brief)
- This case was made by an unknown maker in the United States, in the 1950s. It is a conga drum case, made of fiberboard, with metal rivets and handle, black webbing, and foam lining. Accessioned with conga drum (Cat. #1998.0355.02). This conga drum case was used by Nick Reynolds (1933-2008) of The Kingston Trio.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1950s
- user
- Reynolds, Nick
- ID Number
- 1998.0355.02.01
- catalog number
- 1998.0355.02.01
- accession number
- 1998.0355
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- Description
- This button is from Dick Gibson’s Jazz Party, held at various venues in Colorado since its inception in 1963. The button is a round metal straight-pin back button with red, white, and blue stripes, and blue black, and red text. These buttons were given to all Jazz Party goers as admission tickets and to simplify the billing for food and beverages. The button is printed:
- GIBSON[image of trumpet]M 3JAZZ
- Dick Gibson, a Denver businessman, sponsored the first Colorado Jazz Party in 1963 as a means to reinvigorate the jazz scene in Colorado. These private gatherings brought together musicians and fans from all over the world in an intimate setting of weekend-long jam sessions. Initially hosted at the Jerome Hotel in Aspen, the Jazz Party became an annual event, moving to the Broadmoor Hotel, a resort located high in the mountains above Colorado Springs, then to Denver. This Jazz Party format has since inspired multiple other jazz parties throughout the United States.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2007.0013.13
- accession number
- 2007.0013
- catalog number
- 2007.0013.13
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- MI.73.36a.640
- accession number
- 304324
- catalog number
- 73.36a.640
- maker number
- 60079
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- Description
- This hardanger fiddle was made by Ellef Johnsen Stenkjondalen in Bø, Norway, in 1870. It is made of a three-piece table of cedar, back of plain birch in two pieces, and ribs of similar birch. The plain birch neck is terminated in an ornamented pegbox and stylized carved dragon head with a semi-opaque orange-brown varnish. The veneered fingerboard (made of either ebony or horn) and tailpiece are decorated en suite. The instrument has four bowed and four sympathetic strings. The fiddle was donated with the bow cataloged as MI.381919a. There is a handwritten label inside the instrument:
- Fabrikeret afEllef Johnsen StenkjondalenBo’ Pgd. 1870.
- Ellef Johnsen Steintjonndalen (Stenkjondalen) lived from 1821 to 1876 in the small community of Bø in Telemark and was the second son of the fiddle maker John Eriksen Helland. In the 19th century the Helland-Steintjonndalen family developed the style of hardanger fiddle that became a dominating standard for all makers. The elaborate fine line ink ornaments with inlaid mother-of-pearl on table, back, and tailpiece on this instrument represent the fully developed style of this family of makers. Knut G. (1880-1919) and Gunnar G. Helland (1885-1976) went to Chippawa Falls, Wisconsin, operating a violin and hardingfele business from 1909 to 1924. Gunnar moved to Fargo, North Dakota in 1929, retiring in 1962 at the age of 77.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1870
- maker
- Stenkjondalen, Ellef Johnsen
- ID Number
- MI.381919
- accession number
- 160028
- catalog number
- 381919
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- Description (Brief)
- This square piano was made by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Albrecht in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania around 1832. It is assumed that he had been trained as a piano maker in Germany, but nothing is known of his training there. C.F.L. Albrecht also was trained as a cabinetmaker and apparently improved his income from the piano trade by cabinetry. This piano has a compass of FF-f4, an English double action, felt (?) hammers, double-strings throughout, first 10 notes are wound brass, the next 9 are brass, the rest are iron, 1 pedal (attached to the center post): dampers, wood frame, and a mahogany or rosewood case with ornamental metal moldings.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1830-1835
- maker
- Albrecht, Christian Friedrich Ludwig
- ID Number
- MI.314525
- catalog number
- 314525
- accession number
- 65118
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1985.0430.51
- accession number
- 1985.0430
- catalog number
- 1985.0430.51
- maker number
- 2910
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- MI.73.01.13.01
- catalog number
- 73.01.13.01
- accession number
- 301414
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- MI.261050c
- accession number
- 51116
- catalog number
- 261050c
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- Description
- This harmonica was made by Magnus Harmonica Corporation in Newark, New Jersey, around 1947. It is a Super Scout model, with 10 single holes and 20 reeds. This harmonica has a dark red plastic comb with metal cover plates attached to the top and bottom with open rivets. It is engraved and stamped:
- SUPER [logo] SCOUT
- (and):
- TRADEMARKMAGNUSHARMONICA CORPORATIONNEWARK 4, NEW JERSEYU.S. PATENT Nos 2,373,1292,407,312 – 2,416,451MADE IN U.S.A.OTHER U.S. AND FOREIGNPATENTS PENDING
- This harmonica features the following patents:
- U. S. Patent #2372129, dated April 10, 1945, for the construction of the reed plate and reeds for instruments of the harmonica type by Finn H. Magnus.
- U. S. Patent #2407312, dated September 10, 1946, for harmonicas in which the reeds or
- reed plate, or both the reeds and reed plate are formed of a plastic composition by Finn H. Magnus assignor to International Plastic Harmonica Corporation.
- U. S. Patent #2416451, date February 25, 1947, for a method of and making integral reed plates and reeds by Finn H. Magnus assignor to International Plastic Harmonica Corporation.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1947
- maker
- Magnus Harmonica Corporation
- ID Number
- 1988.0783.324
- accession number
- 1988.0783
- catalog number
- 1988.0783.324
- patent number
- 2373129
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- Description
- This master disc was made by the Regina Music Box Company in Rahway, New Jersey. It is master disc #1178 used in the production of 20-3/4” diameter discs for Regina disc music box styles 26, 126, 39, and 139. These table-top disc players featured a 130 steel tongues double comb mechanism. The Regina Company was in business from 1894-1922.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- manufacturer
- Regina Music Box Company
- ID Number
- MI.73.01.11.003
- maker number
- 1178
- accession number
- 301414
- catalog number
- 73.01.11.003
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- Description
- This player piano roll was made by Supertone in Chicago, Illinois, 1930s. It is roll #4592 – “Somewhere in Old Wyoming,” by Charlie Tobias and Peter de Rose, published by Edwin H. Morris Company. Supertone player piano rolls were sold by Sears Roebuck Company.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1930s
- manufacturer
- Supertone
- ID Number
- MI.71.12.11
- accession number
- 292526
- catalog number
- 71.12.11
- maker number
- 4592
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- Description
- This guitar was made probably in Germany, around 1875-1880, and sold by the J. Howard Foote Company in New York and Chicago. It is a 6 course (6x1) Spanish model. This guitar appears as item #6053 in J. Howard Foote' Catalogue from 1880: "Bird's-Eye Maple, mouse color, with fancy pearl and wood inlaying front and back, extra fine quality, with first quality patent head. $9.85" "...made after the Spanish Model, with patent, or machine heads."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1875-1880
- ID Number
- MI.055690
- accession number
- 11535
- catalog number
- 055690
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1928 - 1932
- maker
- Lyon & Healy
- ID Number
- 1981.0780.01
- catalog number
- 1981.0780.01
- accession number
- 1981.0780
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- Description
- This button is from the Colorado Jazz Party at the Broadmoor Hotel, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is made of white paper with black ink covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button with a pin back. These buttons were given to all Jazz Party goers as admission tickets and to simplify the billing for food and beverages. The button is printed:
- BROADMOOR[image of trumpet]332JAZZ
- Dick Gibson, a Denver businessman, sponsored the first Colorado Jazz Party in 1963 as a means to reinvigorate the jazz scene in Colorado. These private gatherings brought together musicians and fans from all over the world in an intimate setting of weekend-long jam sessions. Initially hosted at the Jerome Hotel in Aspen, the Jazz Party became an annual event, moving to the Broadmoor Hotel, a resort located high in the mountains above Colorado Springs, then to Denver. This Jazz Party format has since inspired multiple other jazz parties throughout the United States.
- Floyd Levin (1922-2007) was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. His numerous reviews, profiles, and articles were published in magazines such as Down Beat, Jazz Journal International, Metronome, and American Rag. He also authored Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- user
- Levin, Floyd
- ID Number
- 2011.3086.147
- nonaccession number
- 2011.3086
- catalog number
- 2011.3086.147
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1989.0306.206
- accession number
- 1989.0306
- catalog number
- 1989.0306.206
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- Description
- This kazoo was made by the Kazoo Company, in Buffalo, New York, around 1900 to 1910. It is a trumpet kazoo made of metal. Printed paper instructions are attached to the top of the kazoo. This instrument features U.S. Patent #700986 dated May 27, 1902, by George D. Smith, for improvements in a musical toys or kazoos.
- This kazoo was used by William T. Armstrong (1879-1965), orchestra leader and musician in vaudeville and silent film theaters. Armstrong grew up in South River, New Jersey and began playing drums at the age of 14. He continued his musical career through the mid-1910s, after which, Armstrong began work in banking and finance. This artifact is part of a collection of drums, sound effect instruments, and other percussion instruments used by Armstrong.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1902
- ID Number
- 1984.0335.27
- accession number
- 1984.0335
- catalog number
- 1984.0335.27
- patent number
- 700986
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1890-1899
- ID Number
- MI.167087
- accession number
- 38947
- catalog number
- 167087
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- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2018.3081.373
- catalog number
- 2018.3081.373
- nonaccession number
- 2018.3081
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- Description
- This Patron badge is from the Los Angeles Classic Sweet & Hot Music Festival, in 1996. It made of yellow paper with black lettering, encapsulated in plastic. The badge is printed:
- First Annual [foundation logo] THE LOS ANGELESSWEET & HOTMUSIC FESTIVALPATRON1996.
- Founded in 1996, The Sweet & Hot Music Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the music of the 1920s through 50s. The foundation produces an annual event in Los Angeles which support jazz education programs for Los Angeles area high school students.
- The foundation also honors legends in classic jazz by placing permanent bronze plaques with their names, in the ground surrounding the pool and garden area at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel. Known as the “Sweet & Hot Music Walk of Fame,” it features jazz greats Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and Benny Goodman, Cole Porter, Lionel Hampton and Billie Holiday.
- Floyd Levin (1922-2007) was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. His numerous reviews, profiles, and articles were published in magazines such as Down Beat, Jazz Journal International, Metronome, and American Rag. He also authored Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1996
- user
- Levin, Floyd
- ID Number
- 2011.3086.063
- nonaccession number
- 2011.3086
- catalog number
- 2011.3086.063
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