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One afternoon in 1930 a young music-lover went into the London gramophone shop, Cranbourn Street, run by Mr Wilfrid Van Wyck and Mr W. Rimington, and asked for Dohnányi's Violin Sonata in the arrangement by Lionel Tertis. To his amazement he was told that the record was 'out of print'; it had been deleted. So he walked on to the British Museum determined to hear the recording at least, even if he couldn't buy it. But he was told that there were no gramophone records at all at the British Museum…
He faced an uphill struggle, public authorities were sceptical and it was not until 1955 that sufficient money had been raised to finance premises in Russell Square, leased by the British Museum trustees. Sir Adrian Boult and Dame Myra Hess were among the eminent musicians to help what was then the British Institute of Recorded Sound, and EMI and Decca provided their new recordings.
One afternoon in 1930 a young music-lover went into the London gramophone shop, Cranbourn Street, run by Mr Wilfrid Van Wyck and Mr W. Rimington, and asked for Dohnányi's Violin Sonata in the arrangement by Lionel Tertis. To his amazement he was told that the record was 'out of print'; it had been deleted. So he walked on to the British Museum determined to hear the recording at least, even if he couldn't buy it. But he was told that there were no gramophone records at all at the British Museum…
