For 15 years Albert and Sarah Corrick, along with their seven daughters and one son, travelled and entertained people with thousands of shows comprised of music, film and performance.

The family settled in Launceston upon their retirement in 1915.

Now their story has been re-told in a special, one-night-only show at the Princess Theatre, after the family films were discovered in a garage.

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Stan Tilley, a descendant of the Corrick family, said the family was unique.

"It's absolutely fantastic that they are being recognised [with The Marvellous Corricks show]," he said.

Mr Tilley, whose mother was Elsie - youngest of the seven daughters - said there was always music in their house.

"That music has remained with me forever," he said.

"It was so magnificent to have all this wonderful classical opera music played continuously at home."

Stewart Corrick, also a descendant of the talented family, agreed that there was a lot of music in his family home too.

He said his father had occasionally talked about the family history.

"They were, really for me, just stuff dad had in the garage.

"They didn't seem to be particularly special until I went to the National Film and Sound Archive a couple of years ago and saw how enthusiastic they were about the Corrick collection."

Though the National Film and Sound Archive had the film, many of the photographs, objects and other archival information went to the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.

Mr Corrick said seeing his family history come to life with the performance was fascinating.

"[What a] great honor it is for the Corrick family to have this being done.

"I know my dad would have been absolutely beside himself, particularly with the film side. My grandfather probably would have wondered what all the fuss was about."

The show also provided an opportunity for the family's chimes to be played for the first time in public since the 1930s.

"It's just phenomenal to see," Mr Corrick said.

Jon Addison, QVMAG's senior curator of public history, said the chimes were such an unusual instrument.

"There's very few of these [chimes] left in the world," he said.

"They were only made on order for very specific people like the Corricks.

Mr Addison said it was important to represent the family through music too, because that's part of what they were known for.

"So far, the focus has always been on the film, because that is one of those very rare things that survived. There's so few films of this era surviving."

Mr Addison said much of the strong music culture in Launceston was down to the Corrick legacy.

"Their legacy is huge," he said.

The senior curator said he was keen to see more museum objects not just used visually, but aurally too.

Ten Days on the Island has finished in Launceston and will now make its way down to the south of the state.