Nov 26, 2013 - Sale 2333

Sale 2333 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
GRAINGER, PERCY. Autograph Letter Signed, to NBC Music Supervisor Walter Koons, giving his personal definition of music. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery; folds. White Plains, NY, 30 December 1932

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"What is music? In my opinion music is mainly the voice of man grown conscious to man thru habits of improvisation & notation. To a lesser degree music is a collection of other sounds (other than the voice of man) heard in nature (wind in reeds, wind in hollow places, things banging together, the twang of bowstrings, etc.) . . . ."