Arnold Myers

PUBLICATIONS: 19 December 2025

Contents

Publications (Music)
1a. Books and book chapters in preparation
1b. Books and book chapters published
2. Books edited
3a. Articles in preparation as sole author
3b. Articles submitted as sole author
3c. Articles in press as sole author
3d. Articles published as sole author
4a. Joint articles in preparation
4b. Joint articles submitted
4c. Joint articles in press
4d. Joint articles published
5. Reviews
6a. Online publications
6b. Streamed presentations
7. Commissioned writing:
8. Journal and Proceedings Editorship:
Publications (Information Science)
Online:
Books:
Articles:
Periodical Editorship:

Publications (Music)

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1a. Books and book chapters in preparation

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1b. Books and book chapters published

  • Arnold Myers et al., Historic Musical Instruments in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland: Catalogue of the John Webb Collection and other Historic Musical Instruments. Glasgow: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, 2025. ISBN 978-0-907635-72-7. 487pp. Print-on-demand from Lulu Press, Inc.

  • Murray Campbell, Arnold Myers and Joël Gilbert, Sounding Brass: Brasswind Instruments and How they Work. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2025. ISBN 978-3-031-86735-4 (eBook), ISBN 978-3-031-86734-7 (print), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-86735-4. 296pp.

  • Murray Campbell, Joël Gilbert and Arnold Myers, The Science of Brass Instruments. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing [series]. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2021. ISBN 978-3-030-55686-0 (eBook), ISBN 978-3-030-55684-6 (print), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-55686-0. 461pp.

  • Trevor Herbert, Arnold Myers, and John Wallace (eds), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments. Cambridge University Press, 2018. The 86 articles contributed by Arnold Myers are: Althorn; Antoniophone; Armee-Posaune; Ascending valve; Baines, Anthony; Ballad horn; Barclay; Robert; Baritone; Bass trumpet; Bell; Bit; Blaikley, David James; Bore; Brassiness; Catalogues of instrument manufacturers; Catholic fingering; Cerveny, Vaclav Frantisek; Classification of brass instruments; Clavicor; Cobla; Collections of instruments; Compass; Compensation; Contrabass trombone; Cornopean; Cornophone; Cracked note; Crooks and couplers; Distin family; Doigté ministériel; Duplex instruments; Euphonium; Exhibitions; Factitious notes; Fanfare trumpet; Fiscorn; Harmonic series; Helicon; Hibernicon; Koenig horn; Kuhlohorn; Labrosone; Leadpipe; Lipping; Lituus (Bach); Mellophone; Meucci, Renato; Model; Natural instruments; Natural notes; Néocor; Nomenclatures of instruments; Nominal pitch; Normaphone and Jazzophone; Oliphant; Omnitonic; Over-the-shoulder instruments; Parade instruments; Pavillon; Pedal note; Pitch standards; Pless-Horn; Response; Rose, Algernon Sidney; Russian bassoon; Russian horn; Serial numbers; Shank; Slotting; Sommerophone; Sounding length; Sousaphone; Sudrophone; Tenor cor; Tenor horn; Tessitura; Timbre; Tonwechsel; Tornister instruments; Touch-springs; Transposing instruments; Transposition; Tuba; Tuning-slide; Waterhouse, William; Wrap.

  • Arnold Myers and Heike Fricke, Catalogue of the Frank Tomes Collection. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 2012. ISBN 978-0-907635-70-3. 52pp.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Euphoniums and Tubas: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle x, 3rd edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 2011. ISBN 978-0-907635-67-3. 64pp.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Althorns, Tenor Horns and Baritones: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle ix, 3rd edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 2010. ISBN 978-0-907635-65-9. 60pp.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Post-horns, Cornets and Ballad Horns: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle viii, 3rd edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 2010. ISBN 978-0-907635-63-5. 90pp.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Trombones: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle xii, new edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 2008. ISBN 978-0-907635-62-8. 76pp.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Trumpets: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle xi, new edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 2008. ISBN 978-0-907635-61-1. 80pp.

  • Heike Fricke et al., edited by Arnold Myers, photography by Raymond Parks, Catalogue of the Sir Nicholas Shackleton Collection. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 2007. ISBN 978-0-907635-58-1. 809 pages, 1024 illustrations.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Bugles, Cornetts and Ophicleides: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle vii. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 2006. ISBN 0-907635-54-7, ISBN 978-907635-54-3. 64pp.

  • Paul Lewis, Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, French Horns and Cornophones: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle vi. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 2006. ISBN 0-907635-53-9, ISBN 978-907635-53-6. 76pp.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Small Mouthpieces for Brasswind: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle iv, 2nd edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 2005. ISBN 0-907635-51-2. 119pp.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Large Mouthpieces for Brasswind: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle v, 2nd edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 2004. ISBN 0-907635-50-4. 71pp.

  • Murray Campbell, Clive Greated and Arnold Myers, Musical Instruments: History, Technology and Performance of Instruments of Western Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-816504-8. 520pp. [ commissioned by J. & M. Dent, published by Oxford University Press ].

  • 'Instruments and Instrumentation of British Brass Bands'. Chapter 4 in The British Brass Band: a Musical and Social History, edited by Trevor Herbert, pp.155-186. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-19-816698-2.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Euphoniums and Tubas: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle x. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 2000. ISBN 0-907635-45-8. 51pp.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Althorns, Tenor Horns and Baritones: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle ix. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 2000. ISBN 0-907635-44-X. 40pp.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Post-horns, Cornets and Ballad Horns: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle viii. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 2000. ISBN 0-907635-43-1. 71pp.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Trumpets and Trombones: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle iii, 2nd edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1998. ISBN 0-907635-37-7. 91pp.

  • Christopher D.S. Field and Arnold Myers, Donaldson's Apparatus: Catalogue of the Exhibition of mid-19th century Acoustical Equipment, Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1997 Festival Exhibition. Published on the University of Edinburgh Music website, URL http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/udeda.html

  • Arnold Myers and Cary Karp, 'Documentation' In Robert Barclay, ed., The Care of Historic Musical Instruments, Ottawa: Canadian Conservation Institute, London: Museums and Galleries Commission, Edinburgh: CIMCIM, 1997, ISBN 0-660-17116-3, pp.109-123.

  • Articles commissioned for the Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments edited by Trevor Herbert and John Wallace: 'How Brass Instruments Work', pp.19-23; 'Design, Technology and Manufacture since 1800', pp.115-130; Glossary [ part ]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-56343-7.

  • Paul Lewis, Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Horns and Bugles: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle i, 2nd edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1997. ISBN 0-907635-33-4. 104pp.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Large Mouthpieces for Brasswind: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle v. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1996. ISBN 0-907635-31-8. 55pp.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Small Mouthpieces for Brasswind: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle iv. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1996. ISBN 0-907635-30-X. 89pp.

  • Christopher Field and Arnold Myers, Ancillary Equipment: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part K. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1995. ISBN 0-907635-29-6. 66pp.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Cornets and Tubas: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle ii. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1994. ISBN 0-907635-24-5. 92pp.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Trumpets and Trombones: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle iii. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1993. ISBN 0-907635-22-9. 69pp.

  • Paul Lewis, Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, Horns and Bugles: Catalogue of the Collection Volume 2 Part H Fascicle i. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1992. ISBN 0-907635-19-9. 70pp.

  • Arnold Myers and Angela Cartledge, Catalogue of the Brass Musical Instruments in the Collections of Bradford Art Galleries and Museums. Keighley: Cliffe Castle Museum (City of Bradford Metropolitan Council), 1991.

  • Arnold Myers and Trevor Herbert, Catalogue of the European Wind and Percussion Instruments in the Cyfarthfa Castle Museum Collection. Merthyr Tydfil: the Museum, 1990.

  • Catherine Gray and Arnold Myers, Guide to the Collection. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1987, and subsequently updated. ISBN 0-907635-15-6. 32pp.

  • A Check-list of the Brass Musical Instruments in the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1981. ISBN 0-907635-01-6.

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    2. Books edited

  • Editor, Copies of Historic Musical Instruments, CIMCIM Publication No. 3. Edinburgh: CIMCIM, 1994. ISSN 1019-9977. [ Also published on the CIMCIM website ]

  • Editor, Historic musical instruments in the Edinburgh University Collection: The Catalogue of the Collection, Vol. 2: The Descriptive Text. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1992-2013 [ simultaneous electronic and printed publication ].

  • Editor, Historic musical instruments in the Edinburgh University Collection: The Catalogue of the Collection, Vol. 1: The Illustrations. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1990. ISBN 0-907635-17-2. 168pp.

  • Editor, The Glen Account Book 1838-1853. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1985. ISBN 0-907635-12-1.

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    3a. Articles in preparation as sole author

  • Brass instruments (Europe) for the Dizionario enciclopedico universal della musica e dei musicisti (DEUMM).

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    3b. Articles submitted as sole author

  • 'The Distin family in popular art'. In 14th International RIdIM (Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale) Conference: Visual Intersections: Negotiating East and West, Istanbul, June 2013. Vienna: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag.

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    3c. Articles in press as sole author

  • 'Brass', In Vivien Estelle Williams and Hugh Cheape (eds), The Cultural History of Musical Instruments in Scotland, 1700 - Present Day. Edinburgh: Birlinn Publishers.

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    3d. Articles published as sole author

  • 'John Bayley, the "Improved Acoustic Cornet" and the "Improved Acoustic Handelian Trumpet"'. Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society (ISSN 0362-3300) 51, 2025, pp.29-44. (refereed journal)

  • 'The Taxonomy of the Valved Ophicleide'. SIM Jahrbuch 2020/2021, pp.71-92. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.71046/simjb.2020-2021.8]. (refereed journal, open access)

  • ‘The Migration of the Anaconda’. Serpent Newsletter 27 September 2024, pp.9-10; https://www.serpentwebsite.com/sn_sep24.pdf

  • 'The British Bass Trombone in G'. Historic Brass Society Society Journal, (ISSN 1045-4616), 2023, 35, pp.19-36 [DOI: 10.2153/0120230011002]. (refereed journal)

  • 'Preserving Information relating to Instruments in Museums'. In: Adrian von Steiger, Daniel Allenbach and Martin Skamletz (eds.), To Play or Not to Play: Corrosion of Historic Brass Instruments: Proceedings, 4th International Conference on Romantic Brass, Bern, 25 February 2017. Schliengen: Argus Edition, 2023. ISBN 978-3-931264-95-6, pp.120-7. DOI 10.26045/kp64-6179-010 (CC BY-NC 4.0); https://www.hkb-interpretation.ch/publikationen/reihe-musikforschung-der-hochschule-der-kuenste-bern/corrosion

  • 'The Galpin Society Permanent Collection'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LXXV, 2022, pp.3-46 (refereed journal) not yet available through JSTOR

  • 'Les Nouveaux Hélikons'. Larigot (ISSN 1145-2048), No. 65 (Avril 2020), pp.24-29.

  • 'Instrument Making of the Salvation Army'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LXXIII, 2020, pp.30-59. (refereed journal, open access)

  • 'The French Trombone's Conquest of Britain', In Yves Balmer, Alban Framboisier, Fabien Guilloux & Catherine Massip (eds.), Musiques. Images. Instruments. Mélanges en l'honneur de Florence Gétreau. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019 ISBN 978-2-503-58371-6 (Music and Visual Culture 5), pp.567-79.

  • 'The Typology and Timbre of the Tuba'. In Christian Philipsen, ed., Vom Serpent zur Tuba: Entwicklung und Einsatz der tiefen Polsterzungen-Instrumente mit Grifflöchern und Ventilen: Bericht über das 33 Musikinstrumentenbau-Symposium in Michaelstein, 7-9 November 2014. (Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte, Band 83). Augsburg: Wissner; Blankenburg, Harz: Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein, 2019, ISBN 978-3-95786-204-4; ISBN 978-3-89512-145-6, pp.159-174.

  • 'Rudall Carte and E.A. Couturier Conical-bore Instruments Compared'. Historic Brass Society Society Journal, (ISSN 1045-4616), 2018, 30, pp.103-111 [DOI: 10.2153/0120180011006]. (refereed journal, open access)

  • 'Made in Manchester: Instruments of the Higham Firm'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LXXI, 2018, pp.161-178, 156-157. (refereed journal) Available online through JSTOR

  • 'Complexité ultime: système “Synchrotonic” de pistons'. Larigot (ISSN 1145-2048), No. 60, décembre 2017, pp.24-27.

  • 'Relics of the Maltese Bands'. Treasures of Malta (ISSN 1028-3013) 70, XXIV No. 1 (Christmas 2017), pp.28-36.

  • 'Information Preservation for Museum Instruments'. CIMCIM Bulletin, September 2017, pp.4-8.

  • 'The John Webb Collection'. In Instrumental Odyssey: A Tribute to Herbert Heyde edited by Laurence Libin. Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 2016 (Bucina: The Historic Brass Society Series No. 9) ISBN 987 1 57647 252 1, pp.279-288.

  • 'The "Concert" or "Vocal" Horn'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LXIX, 2016, pp.168-180. (refereed journal) Available online through JSTOR

  • 'The Valved Ophicleide: A Broken Promise'. Liranimus Vol. 2, 2013 (ISBN 978-989-98347-2-9, published 2015) pp.9-21.

  • 'Musikinstrumentenkunde heute - eine persönliche Annäherung'. Rohrblatt (ISSN 0935-8900) 28 Heft 4, 2013, pp.175-176.

  • 'Scaling of brasswind instruments'. Liranimus Vol. 1, 2012 (ISBN 978-989-98347-0-5, published 2013) pp.9-19.

  • 'MIMO: a new tool for musicological research'. In Proceedings 13th International RIdIM Conference and 1st Brazilian Conference on Music Iconography: Enhancing Music Iconography Research: Considering the Current, Setting New Trends, Salvador, Brazil, July 2011. CD.

  • 'How Different are Cornets and Trumpets ?'. Historic Brass Society Journal (ISSN 1045-4616), 2012, 24 pp.113-128 [DOI: 10.2153/0120120011006]. (refereed journal, open access)

  • 'Advocating the German Trombone'. The Trombonist, Winter 2010, p.23.

  • 'The German Trombone in Britain'. In Die Deutsche Posaune: ein Leipziger Welterfolg, Katalog zur Sonderaustellung im Grassimuseum für Musikinstrumente der Universität Leipzig. Leipzig: Verlag des Museums für Musikinstrumente der Universität Leipzig, 2010, ISBN 978-3-9804574-7-7, pp.73-75.

  • 'Research on Historic Musical Instruments'. In 1r Congrés Internacional: Investigació en Música, València, 25-26 de febrer de 2010: Llibre d'actes. València: Instituto Superior de Enseñanzas Artísticas de la Comunidad Valenciana, 2010. ISBN-13 978-84-693-3667-0, pp.72-77.

  • 'Characterisation of brass musical instrument designs using the brassiness parameter' Acta Acustica united with Acustica (ISSN 1610-1928), 94 (Supp. 1), 2008, A153.

  • 'Canon Galpin's Schoolboy Notebook'. Galpin Society Newsletter, May 2008, No. 21, p.4.

  • 'The internal evolution of the french horn and the trompe'. In Boje E. Hans Schmul and Monika Lustig, eds., Jagd- und Waldhörner - Geschichte und musikalische Nutzung: Bericht über das 25 Musikinstrumentenbau-Symposium in Michaelstein, 8-10 October 2004. (Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte, Band 70). Augsburg: Wissner; Blankenburg, Harz: Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein, 2006. ISBN-10 3-89639-130-4, ISBN 978-3-89639-130-2, pp.373-390.

  • 'The Rodger Mirrey Collection'. Soundboard, Special Issue, March 2006, [pp.3-5].

  • 'Un modele experimental de piston conçu par Blaikley'. Larigot (ISSN 1145-2048), No. 35, Juin 2005, pp.14-16.

  • 'The University's Other Instrument Collection'. Soundboard, Summer 2004, No. 9 pp.14-15.

  • 'The Acoustical Engineering of Brasswind Instruments 1779-1929'. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2004, 115 No. 5 Pt. 2, New Research on Pre-1929 Instruments session, p.2565.

  • 'Brasswind Manufacturing at Boosey & Hawkes 1930-1959'. Historic Brass Society Journal (ISSN 1045-4616), 2003, 15 pp.55-72 . (refereed journal, open access)

  • 'Brasswind Innovation and Output of Boosey & Co in the Blaikley Era'. Historic Brass Society Journal (ISSN 1045-4616), 2002, 14 pp.391-423. (refereed journal, open access)

  • 'The Mystery of the Missing Saxhorn'. International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Mexico City, 9-13 December 2002, [ Preprints CD ].

  • 'An Intriguing Corno di Bassetto'. Galpin Society Newsletter, February 2002, No. 2, p.6.

  • 'A Renaissance Recorder in Edinburgh'. The Recorder Magazine (ISSN 0961-3544), Autumn 2001, 21a No. 3 pp.94-95.

  • 'Acoustical Aspects of Preserving Historic Musical Instruments'. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress on Acoustics, Rome, 2-7 September 2001. Rome: 17th ICA, 2001. ISBN 88-88387-03-X, Vol. 4, Acoustics in the Restoration of Ancient Musical Instruments session, pp.6-7.

  • 'Organology: a Position Paper'. Historic Brass Society Journal (ISSN 1045-4616), 2000, 12 pp.viii-xi. (refereed journal, open access)

  • 'Trombone Designs in the Transition from Early Models to Modern'. In Monika Lustig, ed., Posaunen und Trompeten - Geschichte, Akustik, Spieltechnik: Bericht über das 19 Musikinstrumentenbau-Symposium in Michaelstein, 20-22 November 1998. (Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte, Band 60). Blankenburg, Harz: Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein, 2000. ISBN 3-89512-116-9, pp.39-52.

  • Arnold Myers: Editor, Index to the Publications of CIMCIM. Edinburgh: CIMCIM, 1997. Published on the CIMCIM website.

  • 'The Horn Function and Brass Instrument Character'. In Stewart Carter, ed., Perspectives in Brass Scholarship: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Historic Brass Instruments, Amherst, 1995. New York: Pendragon, 1997. ISBN 0-945193-97-1, pp.239-262.

  • 'Brass Mouthpieces'. FoMRHI Quarterly, July 1996, No. 84, Comm. 1465, pp.35-36.

  • 'Nominal Pitch'. FoMRHI Quarterly, April 1994, No. 75, Comm. 1247, pp.24-25.

  • 'Association in Instrument Collections'. FoMRHI Quarterly, April 1994, No. 75, Comm. 1246, pp.23-24.

  • 'Are our Instruments HISTORIC or HISTORICAL ?' FoMRHI Quarterly, April 1994, No. 75, Comm. 1245, p.22.

  • 'The Early Victorian Brass Band'. Historic Brass Society Journal (ISSN 1045-4616), 4 1992 pp.261-263.

  • 'Museums in Harmony'. Scottish Museum News, Autumn 1989, pp.7-8.

  • 'A Slide Tuba ?' Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), 1989, XLI pp.127-128. Available online through JSTOR

  • 'Cataloguing Standards for Instrument Collections', paper read at the CIMCIM meeting, Berlin, 11-17 April 1988. Newsletter of the International Committee of Musical Instrument Collections and Museums, 1989, XIV pp.14-28.

  • 'Musical Instruments Historic, Rare and Unique' [ bibliographic essay ]. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), 1988, XLI pp.118-120. Available online through JSTOR

  • 'Conservation of Wind Instruments'. Paper presented at the conference, Conservazione, Restauro e Riusi Degli Strumenti Musicali Antichi: per Una Carta Europea Del Restauro organised by the Fondazione Levi, a cura di Elena Ferrari Barassi e Marinella Laini, Venice, 16-19 October 1985. Firenze: Leo Olschki, 1987 p.221-234.

  • 'The Oldest Trombone in Britain'. The Trombonist, Summer 1987, p.7.

  • 'Fingering Charts for the Cimbasso and Other Instruments'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), 1986, XXXIX pp.134-136. Available online through JSTOR

  • 'The Macaulay Collection of Musical Instruments, Edinburgh'. Glareana (Nachrichten der Gesellschaft der Freunde alter Musikinstrumente), 1986, 35 (2) pp 12-14.

  • 'Pitch Notation: a Plea to End Confusion'. Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society, June 1985, 14 (2) p.5.

  • 'Pitch notation: a Plea to End Confusion'. Newsletter of the International Committee of Musical Instrument Collections and Museums, 1985, XII p.73.

  • 'The Acquisition, Use and Restoration of Wind Instruments in Collections'. Newsletter of the International Committee of Musical Instrument Collections and Museums, 1985, XII pp.82-86.

  • 'The Glen Account Book: Insights of Musical Instrument Usage in a Time of Change', paper read at the CIMCIM meeting, Washington D.C. and New York, 23-31 May 1985. Newsletter of the International Committee of Musical Instrument Collections and Museums, 1985, XII pp.43-45.

  • 'The Glen and Ross Collections of Musical Instruments', paper read at a meeting of the Galpin Society, Edinburgh, 12-13 November 1983. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), 1985, XXVIII pp.4-8. Available online through JSTOR

  • 'The Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), 1982, XXXV pp.151-153. Available online through JSTOR

  • 'Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments'. University of Edinburgh Journal, December 1981, XXX (2) pp131-133.

  • 'Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments'. Newsletter of the International Committee of Musical Instrument Collections, 1981, IX pp.67-68.

  • 'Rendall Acquisition Increases Almost Unique Historic Collection to 1,000 Instruments'. University of Edinburgh Bulletin, March 1981, 17 (3) p.13.

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    4a. Joint articles in preparation

  • Arnold Myers and Murray Campbell, Victor Mahillon's Contributions to Acoustics. Proceedings of the Conference Mahillon and his Time.

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    4b. Joint articles submitted

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    4d. Joint articles published

  • Marco George Aragó Bishop, Arnold Myers, Murray Campbell and Sandy McGrattan, 'Optimising intonation and playability in a vented trumpet: Acoustical behaviour and performer insights'. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (ISSN 1939800X) 58 (1) 035016, 2025, [Open Access DOI: 10.1121/2.0002113] 13pp, (peer-reviewed proceedings, open access)

  • Arnold Myers and Ignace De Keyser, 'Les tubas wagnériens entre réalité organologique et le concept de Wagner'. Larigot (ISSN 1145-2048), No.  73 (Juin 2024), pp.50-63.

  • Arnold Myers and Murray Campbell, 'Spectral Enrichment in Valve Trombones'. Proceedings, Forum Acusticum 2023: 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, Torino, 11-15 September 2023; pp.359-364; DOI: 10.61782/fa2023.0736. Open access: https://dael.euracoustics.org/confs/fa2023/data/articles/000736.pdf, (peer-reviewed proceedings, open access)

  • Murray Campbell and Arnold Myers, 'The Contributions of Joël Gilbert to the Understanding of 'Brassiness''. Proceedings, Forum Acusticum 2023: 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, Torino, 11-15 September 2023; pp.353-357; DOI: 10.61782/fa2023.0481. Open access: https://dael.euracoustics.org/confs/fa2023/data/articles/000481.pdf, (peer-reviewed proceedings, open access)

  • Ignace De Keyser, Géry Dumoulin and Arnold Myers, 'Brass Instrument Production by the Mahillon Company'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LXXVI, 2023, pp.67-108, 208-211, (refereed journal, open access)

  • Arnold Myers, Joël Gilbert and Murray Campbell, 'La Position Précaire du Saxhorn Basse dans l'Instrumentarium Moderne'. Larigot (ISSN 1145-2048), No. 70 (Novembre 2022), pp.28-35.

  • Murray Campbell, Joël Gilbert and Arnold Myers, 'What's the Difference? Predicting and Characterising Timbral Distinctions between Families of Brass Instruments'. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics (ISBN 978-1-906913-39-7) Vol. 43 Pt. 1, 2021, DOI 10.25144/13767

  • Murray Campbell, Joël Gilbert and Arnold Myers, 'Put a sock in it! Mutes for Musical Horns'. Acoustics Today, 17 (2), Summer 2021, pp.13-22.

  • Murray Campbell, Joël Gilbert and Arnold Myers, 'Brassiness and the Understanding of Brass Instruments'. Proceedings, 9th Forum Acusticum, 7-11 December 2020.

  • Arnold Myers and Ignace De Keyser, 'Mahillon's Wagner Tubas Revisited'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LXXIV, 2021, pp.152-163, 224-5 (refereed journal) not yet available through JSTOR

  • Eugenia Mitroulia and Arnold Myers, 'The Saxhorn Families'. In: Adrian von Steiger, Daniel Allenbach and Martin Skamletz (eds.), Adolphe Sax' Blechblasinstrumente im Kontext ihrer Zeit: Proceedings, 3rd International Romantic Brass Symposium, Bern, February 2014. Schliengen: Argus Edition, 2020. ISBN 978-3-931264-93-2, pp.18-34. DOI 10.26045/kp64-6177-003 (CC BY-NC 4.0); https://www.hkb-interpretation.ch/publikationen/reihe-musikforschung-der-hochschule-der-kuenste-bern/saxhorn

  • Margaret Birley and Arnold Myers, with Rupert Shepherd, 'The revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs classification in 2011 by the MIMO Consortium'. In Cristina Ghirardini (ed.), Reflecting on Hornbostel-Sachs's Versuch a century later: Proceedings of the international meeting Venice, 3-4 July 2015. Venice: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, 2020. (Quaderni di Etnomusicologia, 1) pp.167-180. https://www.fondazionelevi.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Reflecting-Hornbostel-Sachs.pdf

  • Anneke Scott, John Chick and Arnold Myers, 'The Cor Solo: History and Characteristics'. Historic Brass Society Society Journal (ISSN 1045-4616), 31, 2019, pp.1-34 [DOI: 10.2153/0120190011001]; (refereed journal, open access.

  • Arnold Myers and Jenny Nex, 'The Development of Industrial Brass Instrument Making in Britain'. In Massimiliano Sala (ed.) Music and the Second Industrial Revolution. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019 (Music, Science and Technology 2; ISBN 978-2-503-58571-0) pp.177-198.

  • Murray Campbell and Arnold Myers, 'Les instruments basse de type cuivre dans l'orchestre d'Hector Berlioz'. Musique & Technique #7 Mars 2017, pp.25-39.

  • Panagiotis Poulopoulos and Arnold Myers, 'Historic Brass Instruments: A review of preventive and remedial conservation practices in EUCHMI'. In Emanuele Marconi (ed), Diagnostic and Imaging on Musical Instruments: selected proceedings of the 1st and 2nd International Workshop, 2010-2011 Ravenna, Italy. Firenze: Nardini Editore, 2016, pp.55-78.

  • Núria Bonet and Arnold Myers, 'Understanding Historical Horns with Crooks by Combining Measuring and Modelling Approaches'. 11th International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research 2015: Music, Mind & Embodiment, Plymouth, 16-19 June 2015. Plymouth: ICCMR - Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research. Proceedings, pp.545-554.

  • Jocelyn Howell and Arnold Myers, 'Hawkes & Son: Instrument Makers'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LXVIII, 2015, pp.121-149. (refereed journal) available online through JSTOR

  • Murray Campbell, John Chick and Arnold Myers, 'Acoustical Comparisons of Sackbuts and Trombones'. Historic Brass Society Journal (ISSN 1045-4616), 2014, 26, pp.63-78 [DOI: 10.2153/0120140011005]. (refereed journal, open access)

  • M. Campbell, J. Chick, J. Gilbert, J. Kemp, A. Myers and M. Newton, 'Spectral Enrichment in Brass Instruments Due to Nonlinear Sound Propagation: a Comparison of Measurements and Predictions'. International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Le Mans, 7-11 July 2014, Preprints.

  • M. Campbell, A. Myers and J. Chick, 'Influence of the bell profile of the trombone on sound reflection and radiation'. International Congress on Acoustics, Montréal, 2-7 June 2013.

  • Frank Tomes, Sabine Klaus and Arnold Myers, 'Shaw, Köhler and the Disc Valve in Britain'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LXVI, 2013, pp.99-116, 249. (refereed journal) available online through JSTOR

  • Arnold Myers, Robert W. Pyle, Jr, Joël Gilbert, D. Murray Campbell, John P. Chick, and Shona Logie, 'Effects of nonlinear sound propagation on the characteristic timbres of brass instruments'. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131 Issue 1, 2012, pp.678-688 [DOI: 10.1121/1.3651093]. (refereed journal)

  • Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium 2011.

  • John P. Chick, Shona Logie, Joël Gilbert, Arnold Myers and D. Murray Campbell, 'Effects of Viscothermal Losses on Wavefront Distortion due to Nonlinear Propagation in Trombones'. Forum Acusticum 2011, Aalborg, Denmark, 27 June - 1 July 2011. European Acoustical Association, 2011. Preprints, pp.557-562.

  • Lisa Norman, D. Murray Campbell and Arnold Myers, 'Brassiness Characteristics of Early Orchestral Horns'. Forum Acusticum 2011, Aalborg, Denmark, 27 June - 1 July 2011. European Acoustical Association, 2011. Preprints, pp.585-589.

  • Eugenia Mitroulia and Arnold Myers, 'The Distin Family as Instrument Makers and Dealers'. Scottish Music Review (Online ISSN 1755-4934), 2, No 1, Posted 21.1.11. (refereed journal)

  • Shona Logie, Murray Campbell, John Chick, Arnold Myers, and Joël Gilbert, 'Musical consequences of nonlinear sound propagation in brass instruments'. Acoustical Society of America Meeting, Cancun, Mexico. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128 Issue 4, 2010, p.2282.

  • Trevor Herbert and Arnold Myers, 'Music for the multitude: accounts of brass Bands entering Enderby Jackson's Crystal Palace contests in the 1860s'. Early Music (Online ISSN 1741-7260 - Print ISSN 0306-1078), XXXVIII/4, November 2010, pp.571-584 [DOI:10.1093/em/caq07]. (refereed journal)

  • Arnold Myers, Robert W. Pyle, Joël Gilbert, Murray Campbell, 'The Influence of Bore Size on Brassiness Potentia'l. Proceedings of the 2nd Vienna Talk on Music Acoustics, September 2010. University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

  • Lisa Norman, John Chick, Arnold Myers, and Murray Campbell, 'The influence of the Mouthpiece on the Playability of Early Orchestral Horns'. Proceedings of the 2nd Vienna Talk on Music Acoustics, September 2010. University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

  • Lisa Norman, John Chick, D. Murray Campbell, Arnold Myers and Joël Gilbert, 'Player control of 'brassiness' at intermediate dynamic levels in brass instruments'. Acta Acustica united with Acustica (ISSN 1610-1928), 96 (4), July/August 2010, pp.614-621 [DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918316]. (refereed journal)

  • Lisa Norman, Arnold Myers and Murray Campbell, 'Wagner Tubas and Related Instruments: An Acoustical Comparison'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LXIII, 2010, pp.143-158. (refereed journal) available online through JSTOR

  • Arnold Myers, Murray Campbell, Joël Gilbert, Robert W. Pyle. 'The brassiness potential of chromatic instruments'. SfA Conference, Lyon, April 2010. 4pp.

  • Lisa Norman, Arnold Myers, Murray Campbell. 'An investigation into the brassiness potential of Wagner tubas'. Proceedings, SfA Conference, Lyon, April 2010.

  • A.G. Apostoli, S.M. Logie, A. Myers, J.A. Kemp, J.P. Chick, and A.C.P. Braden 'Reconstructing the Lituus: A Reassessment of Impedance, Harmonicity, and Playability' NAG/DAGA, Rotterdam, March 2009. Preprints.

  • L. Norman, J. Chick, M. Campbell, A. Myers, 'Embouchure control of the onset of "brassiness" independently of dynamic level'. NAG/DAGA, Rotterdam, March 2009. Preprints.

  • Eugenia Mitroulia and Arnold Myers, 'Adolphe Sax: Visionary or Plagiarist ?'. Historic Brass Society Journal (ISSN 1045-4616), 2008, 20 pp.93-141 [ DOI 10.2153/0120080011005 ]. (refereed journal, open access)

  • Arnold Myers and D. Murray Campbell, 'Brassiness and the characterization of brass musical instrument designs'. Echoes: The newsletter of The Acoustical Society of America, 18 (3) Summer 2008.

  • J. Gilbert, D.M. Campbell, A. Myers, R.W. Pyle, 'Differences Between Brass Instruments Arising from Variations in Brassiness due to Nonlinear Propagation'. In Proceedings, International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Barcelona, Spain, 9-12 September 2007.

  • Arnold Myers, J. Gilbert, R.W. Pyle, D.M. Campbell, 'Non-linear propagation characteristics in the evolution of brass musical instrument design'. In Proceedings, 19th International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, Spain, 2007. CD-ROM.

  • Jonathan Kemp, John Chick, Murray Campbell, Darren Hendrie, Arnold Myers, 'Measurement Techniques and the Playability of Terminal Horn Crooks'. In Proceedings, 19th International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, Spain, 2007. CD-ROM.

  • E. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer and Arnold Myers, 'A Manufacturer's Museum: The Collection of Boosey & Hawkes'. In Florence Gétreau, ed., Musique - Images - Instruments: Revue Française d'Organologie et d'Iconographie Musicale 9, 2007 (ISBN 978-2-271-06527-8), pp.146-164.

  • Murray Campbell and Arnold Myers, 'Acoustics of the Tibetan Long Trumpet'. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2006, 120 No. 5, p.3075.

  • Arnold Myers and D. Murray Campbell, 'Trumpet Design and Acoustical Characteristics'. In Stewart Carter, ed., Brass Scholarship in Review: Proceedings of Historic Brass Society Conference, Cité de la Musique, Paris 1999. New York: Pendragon, 2006, ISBN 978-1-57647-105-0, pp.251-274.

  • Robert W. Pyle, Jr and Arnold Myers, 'Scaling of Brasswind Instruments'. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2006, 119 No. 5 Pt. 2, Musical Acoustics: Scaling of Musical Instrument Families session, p.3259.

  • Arnold Myers and Niles Eldredge, 'The Brasswind Production of Madame Besson's London Factory'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127) LIX, 2006, pp.43-76. (refereed journal) available online through JSTOR

  • Arnold Myers, Seona Bromage, and D. Murray Campbell, 'The Acoustical Identity of the Bass Trumpet'. Proceedings, Forum Acusticum, Budapest, Hungary, 29 August - 2 September 2005, ISBN 963-8241-68-3, pp.405-410.

  • Lance Whitehead and Arnold Myers, 'The Kohler Family of Brasswind Instrument Makers'. Historic Brass Society Journal (ISSN 1045-4616), 2004, 16, pp.89-123. (refereed journal, open access)

  • Arnold Myers, Seona Bromage, and D. Murray Campbell, 'Acoustical Factors in the Demise of the Ophicleide'. In Proceedings, International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Nara, Japan, 31 March - 3 April 2004.

  • Kelly J. White and Arnold Myers, 'Woodwind Instruments of Boosey & Company'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LVII, 2004, pp.62-80, 208-214. available online through JSTOR (refereed journal)

  • Catherine Frew and Arnold Myers, 'Sir Samuel Hellier's "Musicall Instruments"'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LVI, 2003, pp.6-26, 186-189. available online through JSTOR (refereed journal)

  • Arnold Myers and Tom Lerch, 'The Research Reconstruction of a Renaissance Recorder'. In D. Bonsi et al., eds., Musical Sounds from Past Millennia: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Perugia, 10-14 September 2001. Venice: Fondazione Suola di San Giorgio, 2001. ISBN 88-900646-0-9, Vol. 1, pp.185-188.

  • D.M. Campbell, J. Gilbert and A. Myers, 'The Sounding Pitches of Brass Instruments'. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress on Acoustics, Rome, 2-7 September 2001. Rome: 17th ICA, 2001. ISBN 88-88387-03-X, Vol. 4, Wind Instruments session, pp.4-5.

  • D. Murray Campbell and Arnold Myers, 'Interactive exhibits illustrating wind instrument acoustics'. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2000, 108 No. 5 Pt. 2, Education in Acoustics: Informal Education in Acoustics session, p.2521.

  • D. Murray Campbell, Arnold Myers, Maarten van Walstijn and Howard Wright, 'Devices for Musical Acoustics Learning in a Museum Environment'. In Actes du 5e Congrès Français d'Acoustique = Proceedings of the 5th French Congress on Acoustics, Lausanne, 3-6 September 2000, Lausanne: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, 2000, ISBN 2-88074-470-9, pp.257-259.

  • Will Murray and Arnold Myers, 'The Analysis and Conservation of an Historic Trombone by François Riedloker, Paris, ca. 1810'. SSCR Journal: The Quarterly Journal of the Scottish Society for Conservation and Restoration (ISSN 0959-2369), May 1998, 9 No. 2, pp.11-12.

  • Mark Jones, Arnold Myers and Albert R. Rice, 'A provisional list of quinticlaves (alto ophicleides) in Europe and the United States'. FoMRHI Quarterly 86, January 1997, Comm. 1499, pp.27-29.

  • David B. Sharp, Arnold Myers and D. Murray Campbell, 'Using Pulse Reflectometry to Compare the Evolution of the Cornet and the Trumpet in the 19th and 20th Centuries' In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Edinburgh, 19-22 August 1997: Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 1997, 19 (5), ISBN 1-901656-04-7, pp.541-548.

  • Barbara Lambert, Arnold Myers, et al., CIMCIM International Directory of Musical Instrument Collections: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Published on the CIMCIM website.

  • David Sharp, Murray Campbell and Arnold Myers, 'Pulse Reflectometry as a Method of Leak Detection in Historical Brass Instruments'. In Proceedings of Forum Acusticum 1996, 1st Convention of the European Acoustics Association, Antwerp, Belgium, 1-4 April 1996. Acustica (ISSN 0001-7884), 1996, 82, Suppl. 1, p.S 188.

  • Cary Karp, Arnold Myers, et al., 'CIMENT: Uniform Procedures for Data Element Description in CIMCIM Database Systems', Version 1.1 1991-08-23, Formatted for electronic distribution on 1993-12-20. HTML on 1996-06-28 with minor corrections as Version 1.11. Published on the CIMCIM website.

  • Arnold Myers and Frank Tomes, 'Rudall Carte's Patent Conical Bore Brasswind and Webster Trumpets'. Historic Brass Society Journal (ISSN 1045-4616), 1995, 7 pp.107-122. (refereed journal, open access)

  • David B. Sharp, D. Murray Campbell and Arnold Myers, 'Input Impedance Measurements on Wind Instruments using Pulse Reflectometry'. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Le Normont, Dourdan, France, 2-6 July 1995 pp.74-78. Société Française d'Acoustique, 1995.

  • David Sharp, Arnold Myers, Raymond Parks and Murray Campbell, 'Bore Reconstruction by Pulse Reflectometry and its Potential for the Taxonomy of Brass Instruments'. In Mike Newman, ed., Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Acoustics, Trondheim, Norway, 26-30 June 1995, Trondheim: ICA '95, 1995, pp.481-484.

  • Arnold Myers and Raymond Parks, 'How to Measure a Horn'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), 1995, XLVII pp.193-199. Available online through JSTOR

    [ Translated into French and published as: Arnold Myers et Raymond Parks, 'Comment mesurer la longeur d'un cuivre'. Larigot, Août 1995, No. 17 pp.12-14. ]

  • Arnold Myers and D. Murray Campbell, 'Approaches to an acoustic taxonomy of brass musical instruments'. In Proceedings of Acoustics '93, Southampton, 1993: Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 1993, 15 (3) pp.697-704.

  • Trevor Herbert and Arnold Myers, 'Instruments of the Cyfarthfa Band'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), 1988, XLI pp.2-10. Available online through JSTOR

  • Maurice Checker and Arnold Myers, 'Woodwind Instruments from Kilravock Castle'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), 1984, XXXVII pp.119-121. Available online through JSTOR

  • Arnold Myers and Linda Knox, 'Sounding Brass'. Bulletin of the Scottish Society for Conservation and Restoration, June 1983, (01) pp.6-8.

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    5. Reviews

  • Reviews Editor, Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), 1987-1996.

  • Author of 23 book reviews for Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), 1985-2007.

  • Author of occasional book reviews for other journals

  • The Origin of the Species. The Wallace Collection. Nimbus Records. [recording review]. Historic Brass Society Newsletter ISSN 1045-4594 No. 10, Summer 1997, p.19.

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    6a. Online publications:

  • British Forms of Valves and Valved Brass Instruments. http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/files/15519718/bpv3u.pdf

  • Arnold Myers reveals his motivations and methods in assembling a brasswind collection. Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society 48 (1) Spring 2019 pp.9-10.

  • Sigla for Musical Instrument Collections https://cimcim.mini.icom.museum/resources/sigla-for-musical-instrument-collections-new/

  • Use of Serial Numbers in Dating Musical Instruments' ('Utilisation des numéros de série pour la datation d'instruments de musique'). Actes de la journée d'étude, Cité de la Musique, Paris, 6 juin 2009. Paris: Cité de la Musique, 2010.

  • Arnold Myers and E. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, The Boosey & Hawkes Museum Collection: Table of Concordances. http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/am/gdbhm.html

  • Arnold Myers, Sabine Klaus and others, Working Text of the Brasswind Terminology Working Group http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/am/ittb.html

  • Margaret Birley, Heidrun Eichler, and Arnold Myers, with the CIMCIM Working Group for Education and Exhibitions, Voices for the Silenced: Guidelines for Interpreting Musical Instruments in Museum Collections. Edinburgh: CIMCIM, 1998. http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/am/iwte.html

  • Journal of surviving 19th-century F. Besson and Besson & Co London-stamped brass instruments, with archival and catalogue data http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/am/gdnj.html

  • Journal of surviving Boosé, Boosey, and Boosey & Hawkes brass instruments, with archival and catalogue data http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/am/gdsj.html

  • John Humphries and Arnold Myers, List of surviving W. Brown & Sons brass instruments http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/am/gdbl.html

  • Journal of surviving Distin & Sons, Henry Distin and Distin & Co brass instruments, with archival and catalogue data http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/am/gddj.html

  • Journal of surviving Hawkes brass instruments, with archival and catalogue data http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/am/gdhj.html

  • Arnold Myers, List of surviving Higham brass instruments http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/am/gdhl.html

  • Arnold Myers, Frank Tomes and Lance Whitehead, List of surviving Köhler brass instruments http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/am/gdkl.html

  • Arnold Myers and Frank Tomes, Journal of surviving Rudall Carte brass instruments, with archival and catalogue data http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/am/gdkj.html

  • Journal of surviving Salvation Army brass instruments, with archival and catalogue data http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/am/gdaj.html

  • Eugenia Mitroulia and Arnold Myers, List of Surviving Adolphe Sax brass instruments http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/am/gdsl.html

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    6b. Streamed presentations:

  • Invited presentation 30 Sep 2021: Nineteenth-century Brasswind: Understanding the Profusion of Invention. Global Trumpets Festival, Folkwange Universität der Künste, Essen, 25-30 September 2021. Streamed via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKyhO32LQ-4.

  • Invited presentation 25 May 2021: John Webb and his Collection of Brass Instruments. Historic Brass Society symposium "Pond Life: Crosscurrents over the Atlantic", online, May 24-26, 2021. Streamed via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhVQS9x0nzU&t=9s

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    7. Commissioned writing:

  • Obituary: 'Clifford James Bevan (25 January 1934 - 26 December 2024)' Historic Brass Society Journal (ISSN 1045-4616), 36, 2024, pp.vi-vi1.

  • Obituary: 'Christopher and Clare Baines' Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LXXIV, 2021, pp.250-1. Not yet available through JSTOR

  • 'Organology through the Digital Revolution'. AMIS at Fifty: supplement to Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society (ISSN 0362-3300), XLVI, 2021, pp.24-29.

  • Obituary: 'Graham Melville-Mason 4 March 1933 - 2 February 2019'. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LXXIII, 2020, pp.248-9. Not yet available through JSTOR

  • 'Ventilblasinstrumente in Großbritannien'. In Conny Restle and Christian Breternitz, eds., Valve.Brass.Music. 200 Jahre Ventilblasinstrumente. Berlin: Nicolai, 2014. ISBN 978-3-89479-841-3, pp.54-65.

  • Obituary: John Webb 1935-2014. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LXVIII, 2015, pp.223-224, 192. Available online through JSTOR

  • 27 Articles commissioned for the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments: 'Althorn'; 'Antoniophone'; 'Baines, Anthony'; 'Ballad Horn' (with Eugenia Mitroulia); 'Brass Instruments'; 'Collections' (with Laurence Libin); 'Cornopean'; 'Cornophone'; 'Distin' (with Eugenia Mitroulia); 'Fingering'; 'Galpin, Francis William'; 'Glen'; 'Hawkes' (with Jocelyn Howell); 'Hibernicon'; 'Kampmann, Bruno'; 'Könighorn'; 'Mellophone'; 'MIMO'; 'Mirrey, Rodger'; 'Mouthpiece'; 'Ophicleide'; 'Pedal Note'; 'Serpentcleide'; 'Shank'; 'Sigla'; 'Slide'; 'Trombone' (with Trevor Herbert). New York: Oxford University Press, 2014 and on the Grove Music website.

  • Obituary: Francis James Tomes 1936-2011. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LXV, 2012, pp.233-234. Available online through JSTOR

  • 'William Waterhouse: An Appreciation'. Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society (ISSN 0362-3300), XXXIV, 2008, pp.168, 170-3.

  • Obituary: Sir Nicholas Shackleton 1937-2006. Galpin Society Journal (ISSN 0072-0127), LIX, 2006, pp.291-292. Available online through JSTOR

  • Article commissioned for the New Dictionary of National Biography: 'Francis Galpin'. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

  • Articles commissioned for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: 'Brasswind'; 'Buccin'; 'Clavicor'; 'Cornet'; 'Fingering systems'; 'Glen'; 'Hibernicon'; 'Instruments, Collections of' (with Barbara Lambert and Albert Rice); 'Mellophone' and 'Tenor cor'; 'Ophicleide' and 'Valved Ophicleide'; 'Pedal Notes'; 'Saxhorn' (with Trevor Herbert); 'Saxotromba'; 'Slide'; 'Trombone: General' and 'Trombone: History since 1750'. London: Macmillan, published in 2000 on the Grove Music website, in 2001 printed version.

  • 'New Introduction' to the reprinted edition of Algernon Rose, Talks with Bandsmen 1895; London: Tony Bingham, 1995.

  • 'Instruments and Instrumentation in British Brass Bands'. In Bands: the Brass Band Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries edited by Trevor Herbert. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1991, pp.169-195.

  • 'Brasswind Instruments'. In Made for Music: and exhibition to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Galpin Society for the study of musical instruments. London: The Galpin Society, 1986.

  • Contributor of occasional 'Historic Instrument Window' for the International Trumpet Guild Journal, 2005-

  • Contributor of annual 'Historical Instrument Section: Museums' for the ITEA Journal for Euphonium and Tuba (ISSN 0363-4787), 2002-2006

  • Contributor of annual 'Historical Instrument Section: Museums and Collections' for the TUBA Journal (ISSN 0363-4787), 1996-2001

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    8. Journal and Proceedings Editorship:

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, Conference on Musical Instruments, Meeting organised jointly by the University of Edinburgh and the Galpin Society, Edinburgh, 22-25 June  2022. Published on the Galpin Society website.

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, Joint meeting of the Galpin Society and the American Musical Instrument Society, Edinburgh, 1-4 June  2017. Published on the Galpin Society website.

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, The Bagpipe Colloquium 2013: Meeting organised by the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. Published on the University of Edinburgh website.

  • Conference Proceedings Editor, Proceedings of the Clarinet and Woodwind Colloquium 2007: Celebrating the Collection of Sir Nicholas Shackleton: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 2012, ISBN 0-907635-59-8. 272 pages.

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, Joint meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society and the Galpin Society, Rome, 10 September 2009. Published on the Galpin Society website.

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, Wind Instrument Acoustics, Summer Meeting of the Musical Acoustics Network. Published on the University of Edinburgh website.

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, Making the British Sound, Conference on Instrumental Music and British Traditions, London and Edinburgh, 7-11 July 2009: University of Edinburgh / Horniman Museum/ Galpin Society / Historic Brass Society. Published on the Galpin Society website.

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, Clarinet and Woodwind Colloquium 2007: Celebrating the Collection of Sir Nicholas Shackleton, meeting organised by the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. Published on the University of Edinburgh website.

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, The Violin in Scotland, meeting organised by the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments with the British Violin Making Association. Published on the University of Edinburgh website.

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, Conference on Musical Instruments, Meeting organised jointly by the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, the Galpin Society, and the American Musical Instrument Society, London and Edinburgh, 8-10 August 2003. Published on the Galpin Society website.

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, Musical Instruments: Do They Have to Sound ? - CIMCIM Conference; St Petersburg, Russia: 8-16 September 2002. Published on the CIMCIM website.

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, Musical Instruments on Display: Mounting, Security, Labelling - CIMCIM Conference; Barcelona, Spain: 1-6 July 2001. Published on the CIMCIM website.

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, Musical instrument collections and musical instrument-making - interaction in history and in the future - CIMCIM Conference; Markneukirchen, Germany: 16-19 September 2000. Published on the CIMCIM website.

  • Arnold Myers: Symposium Abstracts Editor, Symposium on Bowed String Musical Instruments, Meeting organised by the University of Edinburgh in conjunction with the Early Music Forum of Scotland and the Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain, Edinburgh, 1-3 June 2000. Published on the University of Edinburgh website.

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, Conference on Musical Instruments, Meeting organised jointly by the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments and the Galpin Society, Edinburgh, 9-11 July 1999. Published on the Galpin Society website.

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, Les instruments de musique ou la musique ? - Quel rôle pour un musée dans une société en évolution ? = Musical Instruments or Music ? - CIMCIM Conference; Paris: 10-14 June 1999. Published on the CIMCIM website.

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, Cultural Diversity and Museums of Musical Instruments CIMCIM Conference; Melbourne: 10-16 October 1998. Published on the CIMCIM website.

  • Arnold Myers: Colloquium Abstracts Editor, Colloquium on Historical Musical Instrument Acoustics and Technology, Meeting organised jointly by the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments and the Galpin Society, Edinburgh, 22-23 August 1997. Published on the Galpin Society website.

  • Conference Proceedings Editor, International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Edinburgh, 19-22 August 1997: Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 1997, 19 (5), ISBN 1-901656-04-7.

  • Arnold Myers: Conference Abstracts Editor, Musical Instrument Collections in the Electronic Age CIMCIM Conference; Washington, D.C.: 11-14 May 1997. Published on the CIMCIM website.

    Publications (Information Science)

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    Online:

  • 'Internet Offshore Engineer', Virtual Training Suite online tutorial, Published by the Resource Discovery Network for JISC, 2001, URL http://www.eevl.ac.uk/vts/petroleum/

  • 'Petroleum Technology on the Web'. Published in Ariadne: the Web Version Issue 19, 19 May 1999, URL http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue19/eevl/intro.html#petroleum

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    Books:

  • Compiler, Cumulative Bibliography of Petroleum and Marine Technology, a list of over 3000 individual publications, mostly published since 1990. Published on the World-Wide Web, regularly updated 1996-2009.

  • 'Petroleum and Offshore Engineering'. In Information Sources in Engineering 4th edition, edited by R.A. MacLeod and J. Corlett. München: K. G. Saur, 2005, pp.651-662.

  • Petroleum and Marine Technology Information Guide. London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1992.

  • Editor, Offshore Information Conference Papers; Glasgow, 1990. Edinburgh: Institute of Offshore Engineering, 1990.

  • Editor, Offshore Information Conference Papers; Bergen, 1988. Edinburgh: Institute of Offshore Engineering, 1989.

  • Offshore Information Guide. Berkhamsted: ASR Books, 1988.

  • Compiler, INFOIL 2 Thesaurus: Terminology for the Offshore Industry. London: H.M.S.O. for the Department of Energy, 1988 (Offshore Technology Information OTI 88 505) ISBN 0-11-412912-6.

  • Editor, Offshore Information Conference Papers; Edinburgh, 1986. Edinburgh: Institute of Offshore Engineering, 1987.

  • Grete Schanche and Arnold Myers, editors, Offshore Information Conference Papers; Stavanger, 1984. Edinburgh: Institute of Offshore Engineering, 1985.

  • Current Bibliography of Offshore Technology and Offshore Literature Classification, 2nd edition Berkhamsted: ASR Marketing, 1984.

  • Editor, Offshore Information Conference Papers; Aberdeen, 1982. Edinburgh: Institute of Offshore Engineering, 1982.

  • Current Bibliography of Offshore Technology and Offshore Literature Classification. Berkhamsted: ASR Marketing, 1981.

  • Editor, National Offshore Information Conference Papers; London, 1980. Edinburgh: Institute of Offshore Engineering, 1980.

  • Guide to Information Services in Marine Technology, 3rd edition. Edinburgh: Institute of Offshore Engineering, 1979.

  • Arnold Myers and J.R. Atkinson, Directory of current U.K. research and development relating to offshore structures and pipelines. London: CIRIA Underwater Engineering Group, 1979.

  • Editor, National Offshore Information Conference Papers; Edinburgh, 1978. Edinburgh: Institute of Offshore Engineering, 1978.

  • Marine Technology Micro-Thesaurus. Edinburgh: Institute of Offshore Engineering, 1978.

  • Guide to Information Services in Marine Technology, 2nd edition. Edinburgh: Institute of Offshore Engineering, 1976.

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    Articles:

  • Arnold Myers and Jonathan Side, 'Information and legislation on offshore accidents and safety'. Offshore Information Conference Papers 1984, pp.7-49.

  • 'The Information Service at the Institute of Offshore Engineering'. Aslib Proceedings, 1978, 30 (3) pp.115-118.

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    Periodical Editorship:

  • Petroleum and Offshore Engineering Bulletin. Monthly, 2000-09.

  • Offshore Engineering Information Bulletin. Monthly, 1992-99.

  • IOE Library Bulletin and Forthcoming Meetings. Monthly, 1975-91.