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24: 185: 148:, consists of over 2,500 historical and contemporary musical instruments from around the world. The basis of the Collection is a gift made to the university by pharmaceutical businessman Frederick Stearns in 1898. Known internationally as a unique research collection, its holdings include the trumpet collection of 176:
from 1936 to 1952. A Catalog documenting the Collection's holdings was published in 1918 by Albert A. Stanley, with a second edition published in 1921. In 1988, Professor James M. Borders published a catalog featuring the Collection's European and American wind and
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Borders, James M., "European and American Wind and Percussion Instruments: Catalogue of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, University of Michigan, 1988
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The museum's collections include a number of forged or altered items, purchased by the founder from the notorious Italian instrument dealer
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Coover, James. Musical Instrument Collection Catalogues and Cognate Literature, Information Coordinators, 1981
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Gift to Michigan University - Collection of Musical Instruments Presented by Frederick Stearns
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Stanley, Albert A., "Catalogue of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments", 1921.
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Stanley, Albert A., "Catalogue of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments", 1918.
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Frederick Stearns, industrialist (pharmaceuticals) and founder of the collection
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on the Central Campus and at the Earl V. Moore Building on the North Campus.
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faculty member; a collection of violin bows from Jerry Tetewsky; as well as
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The Stearns Collection Website, The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
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The collection is exhibited in the lower lobby of the university's
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BobMoog.com Stearns Collection Home to First Commercial Moog
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Carol Stepanchuk (outreach, lecture series director)
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UMich School of Music, Dance & Theatre
Earl V. Moore Building
Director
Staff
42°17′25.1″N 83°43′15.6″W / 42.290306°N 83.721000°W / 42.290306; -83.721000
smtd.umich.edu
University of Michigan
School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Armando Ghitalla
Boston Symphony Orchestra
University of Michigan
Robert Moog
Moog synthesizer
theremin
Green Hornet
percussion

Leopoldo Franciolini
Hill Auditorium
List of music museums


"UM School of Music, Theatre & Dance - About the Stearns Collection"
the original
Gift to Michigan University - Collection of Musical Instruments Presented by Frederick Stearns
The Stearns Collection Website, The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Digitized 1918 Catalogue of the Stearns Collection
Digitized 1921 Catalogue of the Stearns Collection

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