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Musical Museum survival appeal.

I'm a volunteer tour guide at the Musical Museum in Brentford, London. https://www.musicalmuseum.co.uk/

It is a very satisfying role because I watch the delight and wonder on the visitors' faces when they see and hear the instruments used for music reproduction through the ages. We have musical boxes, polyphons (the precursors of juke boxes) self-playing organs and pianos including player pianos and reproducing pianos that play the actual performances of famous pianists of the past including Gershwin, Rachmaninoff and many others. There are phonographs, gramophones, juke boxes that play 78s and a mighty Wurlitzer Cinema organ in our concert hall. The collection is of national and international importance because it restores and preserves working examples of extremely rare instruments.

Loss of income during the Covid shutdown followed by huge inflation in the museum's costs mean that the museum can no longer pay its way so this year, our 60th, might be the last. We have trimmed our costs to the bone but must find money urgently to keep the doors open as we change the way we operate.

If you value a historic musical resource, you may wish to support the museum's survival crowdfunder but if it doesn't seem that important to you, I understand that and I apologise for the intrusion. Here's the crowdfunder link.

https://gofund.me/5632515e

If you feel able to, it would be great if you can also pass on the appeal to anyone you think might be interested.

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A SPOOKY new show at the BARONS COURT THEATRE this Halloween!

We Are Monsters X Glass Oct 24th — Nov 4th, 7:30pm  Barons Court Theatre https://www.baronscourttheatre.com/we-are-monsters-x-glass
“This isn’t… how the story goes.”
Just a Regular House presents a double-bill of two new short plays this halloween.
Caitlyn and Kyle enjoy playing pranks and scaring campers on Lake Windermere, but their harmless fun turns into trouble when they’re tracked down by a nearby ghost-whisperer in ‘We Are Monsters.’
Upon the ninth floor of a skyscraper on Halloween night, a terrified Brody Jenkins receives an ominous phone call from a stranger on a broken-down train, in ‘Glass’.
Just a Regular House is back again this Halloween in the one and only basement of the Barons Court Theatre, this time with two brand new plays that are fearful, funny, and filled with ghost stories! 
Just a Regular House is an emerging theatre company that focuses on fantastic writing from new and published writers. 
We are an emerging theatre company that have been shortlisted for the 2023 LET Award, received an OFFCOM Commendation, been nominated for two OFFIE awards, and also received two London Pub Standing Ovation Nominations.
We write, direct, act, fight, cry, and play, just like any other regular house of people. We would love for you to join in.
https://www.justaregularhouse.com Instagram: @justaregularhouseproductions Twitter: @jrhprods Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/we-are-monsters-x-glass-a-new-nightmare
✭✭✭✭✭ “a dramatic triumph”  Broadway Baby on A BUTCHER OF DISTINCTION
✭✭✭✭✭ “gripping, shocking, funny and disturbing”  Jack the Lad Mag on A BUTCHER OF DISTINCTION
✭✭✭✭✭ “just gorgeous”  London Pub Theatres on ONE DAY WHEN WE WERE YOUNG

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