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Got one or more titles not on this list that you would like to donate? Contact me at thedulcimerlady at juno dot com) The last updated date appears both in the .pdf title and at the bottom of this page. Any date change you may notice means new items were added or existing items were revised or updated. Please contact me at the email address at the top of any page re: any old, public-domain materials you may have that are not on this list. Original copies, scans, and/or photo-copies of public- domain materials, along with any and all historical information, are welcome! If you don’t see a more recent title that's protected by copyright (after 1926 or so), I don’t have it. For these, I’ll feel more comfortable (and legal) having published books over photocopies. So before you toss out or give away that instruction book you no longer need, it may just fi nd a home here as a reference tool. And if you want to buy a book for the Archives, blessings on you! I'll add your name to the growing list of donors on my On the Research Trail web page. The best way to see if a book title is in the AutoharpING Archives is to fi rst fi nd its copyright year on the book you have, if present (very old books may lack this; check the verso of the title page, the title page itself, or a few pages into the text). Then look up the copyright year in the fi rst column of the books list (Section I). If you don’t see the title, then it's not in this Archives. In that case, email me the complete book title with its author and copyright year, if known. A photo of the front cover, if you can supply it, will help instantly, too. As for autoharp sheet music, just let me know you found some, especially if there's a lot. Many thanks! (Charles F. Zimmermann/Alfred Dolge) (The American Autoharp Company) Archive list created on September 09, 2018; last updated on October 30, 2019. 1 Got one or more titles not on this list that you would like to donate? Contact me at thedulcimerlady at juno dot com) © year title, author, etc. notes/discrepancies/thoughts source Photocopies of most pages, with Figure Received May 28, 2019 with Music for missing pages coming from Philadelphia Style 2¾ autoharp other CFZ publications, except for via eBay from “Blue-Eyed Mary.” (While this title is listed on the front cover, it does Jeff Yurkoski, not appear at the beginning of CFZ’s 719 Brookhill Dr, sheet-music list where all the other Lexington, KY 40502 Collection of Popular Figure Music for C. F. songs in this book are listed. It may instead be “Blind Mary”?) The front 1885? Zimmermann’s Miniatur Autoharp, for Autoharp cover, which may have been printed Styles 2 and 2¾. on the same paper stock as the music pages, disintegrated on the binding side, deleting text from the bottom two paragraphs on the inside front cover, which I reconstructed from other CFZ writings. Due to some music signs on some scores that have not been defi ned, one leaf may be missing from this title. original pamphlet (as stated on received 3/28/19 via eBay from C. F. Zimmermann’s Simplifi ed Harmony Teacher the outside back cover), 20 pages Christopher Marenda (no page #s); includes two glued-in and New Method of Music by Figures, in English and 33 Twist Dr. inserts. Offers a lengthy history of German, no city (Philadelphia is assumed), no year Holland, PA 18966-2065 music notation, with Figure Music (antiques dealer): $13.98 (year shown at left was calculated by evidence on the explanations for Autoharp, Piano 1886 back cover, combined with evidence elsewhere). (with playing instructions), Viola, F. A. North is the publisher of Note: This title signifi cantly changes some docu- Violoncello and Bass Viol, with ads on the outside back cover by F. A. North, North’s Philadelphia Musical mentation about autoharp history written in the 1980s 1308 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Journal, and 1990s. Also describes the available chords on Autoharp Styles 1, 2, 2¾, 3, 4, and 5. Color photocopy. 24 pages (some Owned by Rick Meyers, Portland, C. F. Zimmermann’s Simplifi ed Harmony Teacher with page numbers); its one glue-in Oregon and Short-hand Writing of Chords, in English and insert is missing. The Preface differs German—Also—New Method of Music by Figures, no signifi cantly from the 1886 and 1889 1888? city (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania assumed), no year editions, also condensing the history (1888 assumed, based on a year reference on page 19 of music notation given in the 1886 and the lack of second-party ads on the back cover). edition. The Autoharp is the sole focus of this advertising tool, lacking any Note: I call this the “second edition”: SHT II. description about how to play it. 2 Got one or more titles not on this list that you would like to donate? Contact me at thedulcimerlady at juno dot com) © year title, author, etc. notes/discrepancies/thoughts source Electronic photos of pages in jumbled purchased from Southern order on a .pdf, received from The C. F. Zimmermann’s Simplifi ed Harmony Teacher Folklife Collection, UNC Southern Folklife Collection at the U. of and Short-hand Writing of Chords, in English and North Carolina. 28 pages (some with German—Also—New Method of Music by Figures, no ?1890- page numbers) with one glued-in insert city (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania assumed), no year (present among the photos). I re-set 92? (1889 or 1890 is assumed, based on the two earlier the pages in Adobe InDesign, retyp- editions by the same title, listed in previous row). ing the English text in white boxes for clarity. The Autoharp remains the sole Note: I call this the “third edition”: SHT III. focus; like 1888, it lacks description about how to play. original, all pages are loose and gift of Dean Guymon, 302 N. Old Park C. F. Zimmermann’s Choice Collection of Popular present, including a Figure Music list Rd., Mulberry Grove, IL 62262-1110; ?1888? Figure Music for the Autoharp: Autoharp No. 1. in the back with no other markings at received Oct. 29, 2019. the top of the fi rst page. Photocopy of the original, whose gift of Eileen Roys, May 2018 whereabouts are unknown; printed C. F. Zimmermann’s Choice Collection of Popular on 16 x 11 stock and GBC bound. 1888? Pages are set more or less in order, Figure Music for the Autoharp: Autoharp No. 2. based on the 2¾ book. Miscellaneous photocopies of handwritten poetry and newspaper clippings follow book pages. original, showing one staple of a gift of Paul Ranney, Tallahassee, FL, saddle-stitched binding; however, most received July 29, 2019. ?1888? Figure Music list points to Alfred C. F. Zimmermann’s Choice Collection of Popular pages are loose. All pages are present, (and including a Figure Music list in the Dolge & Son; this may have been Figure Music for the Autoharp: Autoharp No. 2¾. ?1894?) back which bears "Alfred Dolge & Son" reprinted some time before April 16, at the top of the fi rst page, indicating a 1898 when Rudolf Dolge fi led suit to reprint circa 1894. dissolve the partnership. C. F. Zimmermann’s Choice Collection of Popular original, most pages are in torn gift of Chuck Daniels, DeSoto KS, Figure Music for the Autoharp: Autoharp No. 6 pieces, stored between layers of poster June 27, 2019. Book was in the case board; one piece is a small part of a underneath a Style No. 6 autoharp 1888 Note: Style No. 6 fi rst appeared in an autoharp ad in page including the outside page edge purchased by Dr. William Brose, Upper Marlboro, MD at the MLAG silent August 1888; it could have been ready for the market showing no song titles. Dolgeville's auction on June 29, 2019. by June 1888. Books for all styles preceding it may Catalog No. 1 (see Section II) have been published by this time as well. established the song order. 1893 A Choice Selection of Songs and Instrumental Music printed from online scan; shows National Library of Australia Arranged for the Auto-Harp, Reid Bros., Melbourne Figure Music like CFZ’s with a couple and Sydney [Australia]. symbol changes. No playing or “tab”- interpretation instructions provided. 3 Got one or more titles not on this list that you would like to donate? Contact me at thedulcimerlady at juno dot com) © year title, author, etc. notes/discrepancies/thoughts source Photocopy of actual size (5″ x 6.5″) on Photocopy is gift of Rick Meyers, 8.5 x 11 paper; covers and explanation/ received March 14, 2019. This book text pages in color; all songs in b&w goes with an autoharp Rick bought and set sideways on the pages. Much on eBay, which has a pitch decal of the text echoes C. F. Zimmermann’s at the bottom that looks the same publications and media ads. This may as that on an Australian autoharp 1895 have been published in Canada by R. S. owned by Denis McKay, BUT Denis' Autoharp Favorites, no author (see next column), no at the Williams & Son, Ltd., as a pre-cursor autoharp & book may have been city, no year. latest to Instructor for the Ten-Bar Autoharp, exported from Canada to Australia published in 1912+ (below), or by via The American Autoharp Co.? Whaley, Boyce & Co.