Frank Collins
Frank Collins, Goulburn, NSW, collected and provided details of and collected some of the Australian tunes in this archive, as described by John Meredith, and also collected by Chris Sullivan & Rob Willis.
Frank recorded a number of tunes to disc in the 1950s, some years before his death. Of the 12 discs made five were in the keeping of his daughter Pansy House. They were collected by John Meredith in company with Chris Sullivan. These acetate recordings are now held by the National Library of Australia (search their catalog for "Frank Collins").
"Pansy House, nee Collins, of Bowral ... casually mentioned that her late father, Frank Collins, had made some recordings of his fiddle playing (in the 1950s) some years before his death and had distributed the twelve disks among friends and relations. She had five of the disks ... The disks were cut using a process popular at that time for 'one off' recordings, the acetate disk ... Born in 1887, Frank Collins died at the age of seventy-nine in 1966. In 1904 he married Letitia Cary and they went to live in a bark house at Boxers Creek, near Wingello, where Pansy was born two years later." -- (adapted from) J Meredith, R Covell, P Brown, Folk Songs of Australia Vol 2, UNSW Press, 1987, p80-84
