The Galpin Society

The Galpin Society and the Historic Brass Society will meet together in London and Edinburgh in July. The event will include visits to important collections of musical instruments, and a conference in which members of both societies will present the results of their recent research, workshops, concerts, and social events. This event will also celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Reid Concert Hall Museum of Instruments.

PROGRAMME

Julian Markham House, Hall of residence of the University of the Arts at Elephant & Castle. Accommodation only, £25.00 per night.

Hilton London Tower Bridge offering four-star hotel services, room rates from £159.00 per night (for two people).

London Bridge Hotel offering four-star hotel services, bed and breakfast rates from £162.50 per night (for two people).

Further suggestions are available on request to the organisers.

Mon 6 July

Performance day at the Royal College of Music, London
Masterclasses, talks and performance relating to period instruments and the British Sound

Enter from Prince Consort Road.

10:00

Historical trumpet masterclass and talk Crispian Steele-Perkins

12:00 Visit to Royal College of Music Museum of Instruments

13:00 Lunch Break

14:00

Historical oboe masterclass and talk Anthony Robson

16:00 Visit to Royal College of Music Museum of Instruments

17:00 Close of session

Tue 7 July

Horniman Museum, Forest Hill (frequent trains from London Bridge to Forest Hill, five minutes walk from Forest Hill station)

See how to get to the Horniman Museum and linked maps.

9:30 Conference registration opens

10:15 Welcome

10:30

Round table session with performers discussing the British orchestral and band sound The performance round table will be chaired by David Wright (Royal College of Music), and panelists will include John Boyden (New Queen's Hall Orchestra), Hale Hambleton (English National Opera and Trinity College of Music), Stephen Cottrell (Goldsmiths College), and Cliff Bevan.

12:30 Lunch Break

14:00

Round table session with musical instrument makers, discussing the British school of instrument making The instrument makers' round table will be chaired by Frances Palmer (Royal Academy of Music), the panelists will include David Armitage (London Metropolitan University, woodwind), Nick Blishen (London Metropolitan University, guitar), William Ring (Howarths, woodwind), Richard Smith (Smith Watkins Trumpets, ex- Boosey & Hawkes), and Marc Soubeyran (British Violin Making Association).

16:00 Tea/Coffee Break

16:30 Concert

Reception, presentation and private view

20:15 Dinner

Boosey & Hawkes Archive: a selection of manufacturing records, catalogues and photographs from the Archive will be on display in the Library throughout the day.

Wed Ju1 8

London and environs (choose one alternative)

• Visit to Horniman Museum Study Collections Centre, Greenwich
  Handling display of selected items from the musical instrument reserve collections

  9:15 Meet at London Bridge Station, at the Millie's Cookies stand directly behind the escalators to the underground on the main (overground) concourse. This party will take the Jubilee Line directly to North Greenwich (zone 3). If you are travelling to London Bridge by public transport, you can buy a zones 1-3 anytime day travelcard when you set out. If you don't have a ticket by the time you are at London Bridge, then a zones 1-4 offpeak travelcard will be the cheapest option.

  13:00 Lunch at the Pilot Inn, Greenwich

  or

• Visit to Paxman horn workshops, Staplehurst

  9:15 Meet at London Bridge Station, at the Millie's Cookies stand directly behind the escalators to the underground on the main (overground) concourse. For this party, the cheapest option is a group ticket where four people travel for the price of two. We will organise organise the party into fours, and each group of four will pay 30 pounds return.

  or

• free time in London to explore musical instrument collections and attractions

Evening: Meet at 16:40 for the 17:00 train from Kings Cross to Edinburgh, arriving 21:21.

We meet at the entrance to the platform and go through ticket control to the train as a group. We have a group ticket with reserved seats in coach C (seats 23-62).

See the Booking Form for fares. Participants returning to London should book their return journey themselves. Meals are available on the train.

Moderate-cost bed and breakfast accommodation has been arranged in Edinburgh at Pollock Halls, in a spectacular location at the foot of Arthur's Seat. See the Booking Form for details of rates.

If you are arriving by the 17:00 train from Kings Cross to Edinburgh, taxis can be shared to Pollock Halls. If you are arriving directly to Pollock Halls, see given at www.edinburghfirst.com/edinburgh-campus-maps-08.pdf for maps, or Enter from Holyrood Park Road. Travel directions to Pollock Halls are given at www.edinburghfirst.com/edinburghfirst/travel.asp

Thursday 9 Ju1y - Saturday 11 July

Reid Concert Hall Museum of Instruments, Edinburgh

• Papers sessions
• Visits to special exhibition, Sackbut and Trombone in session breaks
• Click on titles below to view paper abstracts

The Reid Concert Hall is 25 minutes walk from Pollock Halls.

THURSDAY 9 JULY, MORNING

9:00	Ergonomic Analysis of a Renaissance Sackbut Bill Tuck and Frank Tomes

9:30	British Horn Design in the Eighteenth Century: an Analysis of Acoustics and Playing Technique Lisa Norman, University of Edinburgh

10:00

France and Britain: Crossroads of Brass Instrument Making Eugenia Mitroulia, University of Edinburgh

10:30 Coffee Break

10:55

The Cornet à pistons Seen by Fétis through his Writings about the World Exhibitions of London and Paris, 1851-1867 Géry Dumoulin, Musée des instruments de musique (MIM), Brussels

11:25

Trumpet vs Cornet at the turn of the Twentieth Century; Sound, Perception and Reaction Paul Nevins, Birmingham Conservatoire

12:00

Trumpet and Cornet: an Exploration of Ancestry and Stylistic Affinities in British Orchestral Brass Playing of the Twentieth Century Simon Baines, University of Leeds

12:40 Performance of Gustav Holst (1874-1934), Duet for Trombone and Organ by John Kenny (narrow-bore trombone) and John Kitchen (organ)

14:10

“Loud Noyses of Musicke”: Musical Representation and the Court and Civic Ensembles of Elizabethan London Helen Green, The Open University

14:40

The Viol Displayed, the Iconographer Dismayed Michael Fleming, University of Huddersfield

15:10

The Workshop Accounts of the London Harp Firm of Erard, 1807-09 Jenny Nex, Royal College of Music and Goldsmiths College, University of London, London

15:40

The Auxeto-Instruments of Charles Algernon Parsons Aleks Kolkowski, Brunel University and Alison Rabinovici, University of Melbourne

16:15 Tea Break

16:40

The Influence of the Distin Family on the Development of the Brass Band Movement in Nineteenth-century Britain Ray Farr, University of Durham

17:20

The Road to Masquerade: The Influence of the Voice on Brass Band Style and Repertoire Peter Bassano

18:00 Reception

The short programme will include a performace of a selection from Meyerbeer, Robert le Diable as arranged for the 1862 Crystal Palace contest.

FRIDAY 10 JULY, MORNING

9:00	British and Continental Evidence of the Early Shuttle-Drone Bagpipe Jim Kopp

9:30	Oboes by Thomas Stanesby Sr. : Bores and Perturbations P.J. Berry and L. Jones, London Metropolitan University

10:00

British and Continental Clarinets Compared Heike Fricke, Berlin

10:30

A Newly-discovered English Bassoon Mathew Dart, London Metropolitan University

11:00 Coffee Break

11:25

The Saxophone in England in the Long Nineteenth Century Stephen Cottrell, Goldsmiths College, University of London

11:55

Fanfare's Fanfares: Heralding a New Era Raymond David Burkhart

12:25 Lunch Break

14:00

What is “The British Sound” in Plucked Keyboard Instruments ? Darryl Martin, University of Edinburgh

14:30

Single Manual English Harpsichords with Machine Stop: the Thomas Culliford harpsichord (London, 1785) of the Conservatory of Music of Florence Gabriele Rossi Rognoni, University of Florence

15:00

Wells Street Scottish Secession Church:  a Congregation of Piano Makers Lance Whitehead, Royal College of Music, London

15:30

The Contribution of Women to the Design, Manufacture and Maintenance of the Piano Marie Kent, London Metropolitan University

16:00 Tea Break

16:25

Guittar Manufacture and Marketing in late Eighteenth-century London Panagiotis Poulopoulos, University of Edinburgh

16:55

The Spanish Influence on the Guitars of Nineteenth-century London James Westbrook, London Metropolitan University

17:35

The Use of the Classical Guitar in the Chamber and Orchestral Works of Denis ApIvor Mark Marrington, Leeds College of Music

18:05 Close of session

Old College is entered from South Bridge (through the large archway under the prominent dome); it is No. 11 on the Central Area map at www.edinburghfirst.com/edinburgh-campus-maps-08.pdf

SATURDAY 11 JULY, MORNING

9:00	Charles Nicholson and the London Flute Market in the Early Nineteenth Century Simon Waters, University of East Anglia

9:30	Making What they Could Sell. Or, If They Were so Clever, Why Weren't They Rich ? Robert Bigio

10:00

Charles Nicholson and the Making of a British Flute Sound Ardal Powell

10:30

An Icon of the English Clarinet School: Boosey & Hawkes and the Symphony 1010 Jenny Brand, Goldsmiths College, University of London

11:00 Coffee Break

11:25

Farewell to the Kidshifter: The Decline of the G Bass Trombone in the UK 1950-1980 Gavin Dixon, The Horniman Museum

11:55

The Contribution of Herbert Barr to the Formation of the Twentieth-century British Orchestral Trumpet Sound Alexander McGrattan, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

12:25

Brass Intersections: Performance Domains and the British Brass Identity Trevor Herbert, The Open University

11:00-13:00 Alternative morning visit for Galpin Society members to St Cecilia's Hall Museum of Instruments

See the Booking Form for ticket details.

St Cecilia's Hall is entered from Cowgate (next to Smart City Hostel); it is No. 5 on the Central Area map at http://www.ed.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.3732%21fileManager/edinburgh-campus-maps-08.pdf

Sun 12 July

• Opportunity to study instruments in Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments by prior arrangement.

• 16:30 (provisional time) talk about the lituus design and construction project
• 17:15 (provisional time) Bach Motet performance
  Performance of J.S. Bach's Motet BWV 118 O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht for SATB, cornett, two litui, three trombones and organ

Sun 12 - Mon 13 July

Reid Concert Hall Museum of Instruments, Edinburgh

• Meeting on Wind Instrument Acoustics - see www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/mxhp.html

Tue 14 July

Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow

• Trumpet Forum: Brass Research and Scholarship in Scotland inaugural event - see www.rsamd.ac.uk/academy/research/brass

For further information, please contact Arnold Myers, Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, E-mail: A.Myers@ed.ac.uk or Bradley Strauchen, The Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ, E-mail BStrauchen@horniman.ac.uk.

This page updated: 2.7.09; re-published 13.2.13