Harry Schaefer
Harry Schaefer (1876-1954), Forbes, NSW, collected and provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive. Harry was the youngest of eight children born in Echuca. Harry's father Carl had emigrated from Bavaria in 1857.
"A "short stocky bushman", Harry was involved in farm work in the Forbes and Parkes area for most of his life ... The variety of instruments played by Harry was truly amazing - fiddles, strohviol, flute, tin whistle, piano, clarinet, accordion, cornet and other brass instruments ore among those mentioned. Harry was also o member of the Forbes Town Bond and some of the dance music in these books is obviously written out for brass players." -- "The music of Harry Schaefer".
He wrote his collected tunes in several exercise books. Some of Harry's tunes are Schaefer Manuscripts are published in a book "The music of Harry Schaefer: tunes from the Schaefer manuscripts", compiled by Rob Willis and Graham McDonald in the National Library of Australia in Canberra, 1996. A copy is available from: Music of Harry Schaefer.
