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Last updated: Saturday, July 06, 2013

Emmett Ford (1914 - June 2009)

Ford, Emmett M., was born in Englewood, Kansas. He will be remembered most for his Love of Music and the many publications that he wrote for.

He will also be remembered for his Love of Antiques, especially Servers porcelain. Emmett was willing to share his knowledge with anyone who truly wanted to learn. He was proud of his service record with The Beech Aircraft Company, working there 40 years as an inspector and traveling for the company. He was also proud of his unique style of handwriting and he possessed an unlimited zeal for learning. Emmett had a long and full life, and he was 94 years old. He will be missed by his many Friends. Interment will be in the Ashland Cemetery, Ashland, Kansas next to his parents

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The Jun-Jul 2007 issue of the AMICA Bulletin carried an undated news item as follows:

"Emmett M. Ford, son of Emmett Ford, who was custodian of the Englewood Grade and High Schools for twenty-five years, has made a deferred gift in the amount of $150,000 to the College of Fine Arts of Wichita State University for an Emmett M. Ford Piano Scholarship for students pursuing the study of piano.

Emmett, known to Englewood people as Melvin, was born in Englewood in1914 and graduated from the schools in 1933. He resides in Wichita and is a research writer for AMICA News Bulletin."

In 1996, he was awarded Honorary Member in AMICA for his numerous significant contributions to AMICA over many years, starting shortly after he joined in 1973. His is best remembered for his huge archives which live on within AMICA, partly in AMICA Bulletins of the past, and currently in my possession awaiting development of a Published

Heritage Archiving initiative, which I'm planning. His archives need to be digitally archived and made freely available to researchers anywhere.Tributes from those who knew Emmett will be very much appreciated for the next issue of the AMICA Bulletin.

Regards, Terry

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Update Feb/2009: Until the "Orphan Works Act" is passed into law, online access does not seem possible.
What is the "Orphan Works Act"? What's happening with it now?

The Howe Collection of Musical Instrument Literature

After many years of passionate, but critical collecting of original literature relating to mechanical musical instruments, pianos and organs, Richard Howe, of Houston Texas, in 1995 placed his collection into the International Piano Archives at the University of Maryland, known as IPAM. The Howe Collection is the largest of its kind in the world by far. In summary, it contains: