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Editor Sqn Ldr A E Birt [address removed]

Number three: Autumn 1974

Pressure of work at the beginning of the new academic year has held up the production of this edition of 'HOODATA'. Its format and content is modified to speed up its publication but a return to the standard layout will be made for edition number four in early 1975.

Here are details of the hoods pertaining to various music colleges but extensive research over many years has not produced any other information about them. If anyone can give any further details of these institutions, especially the present address, or date of closure or amalgamation with another body, or indeed the 'bona fides' of the organisations, the editor will be pleased to receive the information.

British College of Music

	ABCM	Simple shape blue silk, lined with orange silk and bound with white silk, 1 inch inside and ½ inch outside
	LBCM	Simple shape blue silk, lined with orange silk and bound with pink silk, 2 inches inside and ½ inch outside
	FBCM	Simple shape blue silk, lined with orange silk and bound with red silk, 3 inches inside and ½ inch outside.

National Academy of Music (no connection with the National College of Music)

	ANAM	Simple shape navy-blue silk, lined with red silk
	LNAM	Simple shape navy-blue silk, lined with red silk and edged with white silk
	FNAM	Simple shape navy-blue silk, lined with red silk and edged with white fur.

Guild of Organists

FGldO

Simple shape black poplin, lined with crimson satin and with an inside border of white fur.

Society of Church Organists (may also be known as the Guild of St Cecilia)

FSCO

Simple shape black silk, lined with white silk and edged with 1½ inches of red silk.

National Conservatoire of Music

	AMusNCM	Black corded silk edged inside and outside with ½ inch of old-gold silk
	LMusNCM	Black corded silk edged inside and outside with 2 inches of old-gold silk
	FMusNCM	Black corded silk lined with old-gold silk.

[This was in Liverpool, and was a notorious diploma-mill. Diplomates were allowed to choose their hood colours at one stage. See article in 'The Organist' Review for February 1993. Shape of these hoods never found out. NWG]

Musical International College

	LMusMIC	Purple poplin lined and edged (one inch) with white silk
	FMIC	Purple silk lined and edged (one inch) with white silk.

[These were simple shape - but I can’t remember where I found that out: I think an early Haycraft. NWG]

ENQUIRY RECEIVED

Can anyone identify the following hood seen at a school prize-giving ceremony? Simple shape green silk with a narrow edging of black.