Arnold Myers

President, The Galpin Society for the Study of Musical Instruments
Advisory Board Member, International Committee of Museums and Collections of Instruments and Music, ICOM Music (CIMCIM)
Chair of Organising Committee, Galpin Society Conference, Edinburgh, June 2022
Chair of Organising and Scientific Committees, joint Conference of Galpin Society and the American Musical Instrument Society, Edinburgh, June 2017
Chair of the Terence Pamplin Award committee (for the Worshipful Company of Musicians)
Invited member, Institut für Musikinstrumentenforschung "Georg Kinsky" e.V. (Leipzig)
Editorial Board member 1997-2024, Historic Brass Society Journal
Member of Scientific Committee, ANIMUSIC organological congresses
List owner and Moderator 1995-2025, CIMCIM-L: E-mail Discussion List on Museums and Collections of Musical Instruments

ARNOLD MYERS completed his doctorate at the University of Edinburgh with research into acoustically based techniques for taxonomic classification of brass instruments. He has worked in parallel as an information scientist and as Curator and Director of Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. He is now a Professor Emeritus in the University of Edinburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. His research is at the interface of musical acoustics and the history of brass instruments. He lives in Edinburgh.

E-mail address: am@ed.ac.uk

Academic profile: https://pure.rcs.ac.uk/en/persons/arnold-myers

Publications list: http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/am/pvl.html

Awards: http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/am/pvn.html

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