Traces

Music lessons

Rouse Hill House has a large collection of sheet music, accumulated over several generations and ranging in date from the 1830s to the 1980s. For a music researcher seeking to enable visitors to hear the music as it might have been played and heard by the Rouse family, this collection is at once tantalising and frustrating.

Those silent piles of music alone don’t

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