Daily Archive for March 31st, 2008

Piano roll boxes at the Mastertouch Piano Roll Factory


A museum photographer went to the Mastertouch Piano Roll Company to document the amazing factory and it’s contents before it closed in July 2005. We now have a great archive of images from the factory and an extensive collection of Mastertouch items in the Museum that document it’s history.

This highly significant company was established in 1919 and was the longest running and only piano roll manufacturer to be operating in the country.

This used to be a highly popular, quick and easy form of listening to music. Do you still listen to piano roll music?

National Library of Australia here are some other images taken in the factory before it closed.

File #00z12607

Photography by Marinco Kojdanovski
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0