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Rolls of every major company are represented in the collection. The popular music documents playing styles of this earlier era with pianists such as Zez Confrey, Ferde Grofé, Fritz Kreisler, Ernesto Lecuona, Richard Rogers, and Victor Youmans. There are numerous important pianists including Backhaus, Cortot, d’Albert, Dohnanyi, Gabrilowitsch, Ganz, Hofmann, Horowitz, Landowska, Lhevinne, Reisenberg, Rubinstein, and Samaroff. The collection contains rolls of important composers of the period including Busoni, Chaminade, Debussy, Granados, Gershwin, Glazunov, Grainger, Leschetizky, Mahler, Paderewski, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Scriabin, Richard Strauss, and Stravinsky all playing their own works. The cabinet player was also used to record the Grieg Concerto performed by Percy Grainger with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
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He constructed, together with his friend and engineer, Peter Phillips, a Duo-Art cabinet player (or Vorsetzer) which played rolls in concert throughout Australia and New Zealand. From his home he hosted social evenings every two months where rolls were played for the assembled guests. Over the next sixty years he amassed a collection of 7540 piano rolls and ten instruments.
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He developed an interest in the reproducing player piano when his father purchased an Ampico piano when Denis was fifteen. Denis Condon Collection of Reproducing Pianos and Rollsĭenis Condon (1933-2012) trained at the Sydney Conservatory and became a music teacher and educator.