Thanks for letting us know. I had more or less given up checking the site, which has been promising great things for a long time now, while delivering only "teasers" and weblogs. It's good to see it all come together at last, though from a purely personal point of view I'd have preferred it if they had added collections gradually, as they became ready, instead of waiting until they could mount everything all in one go; there does seem to be quite a lot of it.

There's some important material there, not least the Bell collections and the Atkinson and Vickers MS tunebooks. It will be a long time before I can go through it all, but it looks potentially very useful indeed. Funding for such initiatives is woefully limited in the UK as compared to the US, but now if ever is the time to be going for such funding, and this is an encouraging precedent; not least in view of the fact that a number of separate institutions have co-operated in its production.