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Boselli brand piano accordion : Flying Officer Alan Lindsay Harrison RAAF, US 530th Bombardment Squadron
Heraldry
Maker: Boselli Pty Ltd
Boselli, Emdeo VI, black bakelite and wood piano accordion (Serial No.7827). The piano accordion has ornamental fretwork across the curved panel adjoining the keyboard, and in the wooden base. It has ...REL27058.001
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Bugle used to signal the start of Japanese POW breakout at Cowra : Toyoshima Hajime
Heraldry
Maker: Boosey & Co Boosey & Hawkes Ltd
Long double-loop brass bugle, with a silver mouthpiece fitted with a chain and linked to the body of the bugle. There is damage to the bell end of the bugle, and the reinforcing loop has separated fro...REL/04058
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Clarinet in case : Signalman H W Almond, 8 Division Signals, AIF Concert Party
Heraldry
Maker: Boosey & Hawkes Ltd
Clarinet in plastic with plated metal keys and mouthpiece cover. Each separate section of the clarinet (mouth piece, barrel joint, body and bell), is impressed with serial number 34651. The upper body...REL35412
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Handmade cover for repaired guitar: Captain E M Dahl, 84th Light Aid Detachment, POW, Changi and Thailand
Heraldry
Maker: Dahl, Edward Marstrand Luja
Handmade guitar cover or carrying bag made from lengths of brown cotton (taken from a British military valise) and sewn with thick cream cotton thread (salvaged from canvas). A carrying strap has been...RELAWM24605.002
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Hand-made guitar : Australian Prisoner of War, Changi
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Hand-made wooden acoustic guitar. The sound board and back are timber with the sides made from old petrol tins into which names have been scatched. Legible inscriptions are, or appear to be, 'YARDBIRD...RELAWM37036
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Hohner diatonic single row button accordion : Corporal H E McCleary, 6 Division Australian Army Service Corps Ammunition Company
Heraldry
Maker: Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG
Hohner plywood framed diatonic accordion featuring a 12 button (10 treble and two bass) brown Bakelite playing board to one side and four treble stop buttons with a sliding selector button located on ...REL43198
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'Jolli-Joe' banjo-ukulele : Lance Corporal S V Finnigan, 55/53 Battalion CMF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Aluminium necked, pressed steel bodied banjo-ukulele with tin resonator, nickle-plated brass endpiece, nickle-plated brass j-hooks, wooden bridge and bakelite machine heads. A circular brass plate, im...REL44515
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New Guinean kundu drum : Brigadier M J Moten, 17 Infantry Brigade
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Traditional New Guinean kundu drum. It is made of a hollowed tree trunk in an hourglass shape with a lizard skin stretched over one of the open ends. It has a carved handle on the left hand side and ...REL32397
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Piano accordion : VX24288 Sapper F W House, 2/9 Field Company, RAE
Heraldry
German manufactured `Melba' piano accordion. The black concertina section in the centre is decorated with light-blue patterned fabric. The two wooden ends have a glossy burgundy-coloured finish. Lists...REL26907.001
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Repaired guitar: Captain E M Dahl, 84th Light Aid Detachment, POW, Changi and Thailand
Heraldry
Maker: Dahl, Edward Marstrand Luja
Rebuilt guitar, using a commercial neck, machine heads and tailpiece. All the other items are improvised. The machine heads are commercially manufactured nickel-plated steel, with brass winder cogs,...RELAWM24605.001
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Saxophone : E J Banks, Changi Concert Party
Heraldry
Maker: Fanning, Keith
Saxophone impressed 'MADE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA' and 'J K MARK 9849 THE BEST IN THE WORLD'. It has been further engraved, subsequent to manufacture by its Singaporean importer, 'THE NEW KING NANG HENG & C...RELAWM32797.001
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Short upright piano : Changi Concert Party
Heraldry
Maker: Robinson Piano Company (Siam) Limited
Robinson short upright piano, originally with olive green wash finish to body, later given cream wash when used by the Changi Concert Party 1942-1945, and subsequently painted cream in Australia. A st...REL43749
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Side Drum bearing Battle Honours of 21 Battalion AIF, used at Ambon and Hainan Island by 2/21 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Premier, England
Gold painted wood and vellum side drum with steel frame, wires and adjustment screws. A small gold and enamel badge, in the shape of a shield surmounted by a king's crown, is attached to the side of t...REL/15006
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Silver cavalry trumpet presentation plaque : 13/18 Royal Hussars, Tobruk War Memorial
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Rectangular sterling silver plaque with a pair of suspension chains attached. The reverse is impressed with hallmarks denoting manufacture in London in 1948, but the maker's stamp is unclear. The obve...RELAWM30892.002
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Silver cavalry trumpet : 13/18 Royal Hussars, Tobruk Memorial
Heraldry
Maker: Hawkes & Son
Sterling silver cavalry trumpet bearing the badge of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) in silver, soldered to the bell. Engraved below this are the following words: 'PRESENTED BY MRS. MOL...RELAWM30892.001
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Tonette
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
A black coloured plastic whistle or Tonette instrument, with curved, removable mouth piece and tapered tubular body with finger holes or air outlets. The body of the Tonette has two large outlets and ...REL32861
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Trumpet pennant : 4 Company, 6 Regiment, Algerian Colonial Infantry, Vichy France
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Triangular pennant used for Vichy French Trumpets. Double sided light blue felt pennant has three eyelet holes for attachment to the trumpet. The pennant has a gold cotton braid border 10 mm wide abou...REL25390
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Violin Case : Gunner A E Beattie, 2/10 Field Regiment , AIF Concert Party
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Black painted wooden violin case with brass hinges, lock and latches. The top of the case has been repaired with black painted hessian which has subsequently been waterproofed with a type of glue. The...REL29071.003
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Violin damaged by kamikaze attack on HMAS Australia : Steward M E Loxton, HMAS Australia
Heraldry
Maker: Paulus, Albin Ludwig Unknown
Full-size violin complete except for chin board. The violin has four holes in it, and three slits on the soundboard which were repaired before the violin was revarnished. There is a printed manufact...REL/11453.001
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Violin : Gunner A E Beattie, 2/10 Field Regiment , AIF Concert Party
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Standard violin, complete with pegs, strings, bridge and chin-rest. No indication of manufacturer, although the bridge, a later addition, is impressed 'Dolling'. Finish has been completely worn from n...REL29071.001