CHATFIELD BRASS BAND FREE MUSIC LENDING LIBRARY

Sarah Cole spent the month of July "vacationing" at the Chatfield
Brass Band Free Music Lending Library in Chatfield, MN, helping
to file music and produce their newsletter.  The Library is the
only known free music lending library in the world today, with a
collection of tens of thousands of band and orchestra scores,
music magazines, choral pieces, and sheet music (not to mention a
substantial number of G&S melodies arranged for band and orches-
tra -- S/A has a little list of them).  As a matter of fact, the
library has a bigger collection of some composers' works than the
Library of Congress; but, unlike that library, survives purely on
donations.  For more information on the Chatfield Brass Band Free
Music Lending Library and its services, write to its president
James Perkins, at 81 Library Lane, Chatfield, MN 55923.

[This article appeared in Issue 4 (September 1985) of Precious
Nonsense, the newsletter of the Midwestern Gilbert & Sullivan
Society.  Posted by permission of Sarah Cole, Society Secre-
tary/Archivist.  For information on Society membership write to: 
The Midwestern Gilbert & Sullivan Society, c/o Miss Sarah Cole,
613 W. State St., North Aurora, IL 60542-1538.]