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See also the Abstracts of the Conference Papers. Some of the papers presented at the meeting will be published in the Galpin Society Journal.
See also the Technical Research Forum Making Good Musical Instruments: Can Acoustics Help? Edinburgh, 11-12 July 1999.
| Friday 9th July | ||||
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| Registration | Keyboards: Session 1 | visit to Musical Acoustics laboratories | Woodwind: Session 1 | Visit to the Barnes Collection | Saturday 10th July |
| Strings Session | Lute and Guitar recital | General Session | Visit to the Russell Collection | Clavichord recital | Sunday 11th July |
| Woodwind: Session 2 | Brasswind Session | Brass Septet recital | Keyboards: Session 2 | Woodwind: Session 3 | Tuesday 13th July |
| Visit to Piping Centre and Museum | Visit to Bernard Hague Collection of Wind Instruments | |||
Thursday 8th July, 14:00 - 18:00 :: Conference registration and study visits to the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
- Reid Concert HallFriday 9th July, 08:30 - 09:00 :: Conference registration - Reid Concert Hall
| Fri 9 July, 09:00 | Seville: an Important Spanish Centre of Keyboard-Instrument Construction in the Mid-Eighteenth Century Beryl Kenyon de Pascual, Madrid, Spain |
| Fri 9 July, 09:20 | The Relation between Instruments and Music in Portugal in the Eighteenth Century Patrícia Lopes Bastos, University of Birmingham, U.K. |
| Fri 9 July, 09:50 | Two Elizabethan Virginals ? Darryl Martin, University of Edinburgh, U.K. |
| Fri 9 July, 10:50 | An Unsigned German Harpsichord in the Historical Museum Basel Malcolm Rose, Lewes, U.K., and Sabine Klaus, Historisches Museum Basel |
| Fri 9 July, 11:30 | Latest News and Documents on the Neapolitan Harpsichord Makers Francesco Nocerino, Naples, Italy |
| Fri 9 July, 12:00 | Italian Stringed Keyboard Instruments and Simple Geometry: Some New Developments at the Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments in Edinburgh Grant O'Brien, University of Edinburgh, U.K. |
13:00 :: lunch break
14:00 :: Visit to Musical Acoustics laboratories, Level 2, Department of Physics, James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings.
Bus leaves Bristo Square at 14:00
Visit to see research work in progress on sound generation in brass
instruments, bore profile reconstruction and design implications for
trumpets and bassoon crooks, finger-hole effects in cornetts and
serpents, inharmonicity of piano strings, etc.
15:15 :: refreshments available in snack bar, Level 3, James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings
Woodwinds: Session 1 - Room 6206, Level 6, James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings
Session Chair: Clive Greated
| Fri 9 July, 15:35 | Timing of Finger Movements in Musicians E. Geoffrey Walsh, University of Edinburgh, U.K., R. Ashford and P. Johnson, University of Central England, Birmingham, U.K. |
| Fri 9 July, 16:05 | Acoustics of Dutch Wind Instruments from the Baroque Period Rob van Acht, Gemeentemuseum The Hague and Institute of Sonology at the Koninklijk Conservatorium, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| Fri 9 July, 16:40 | The Tunings of Sixteenth-Century Transverse Flutes Lewis Jones, London Guildhall University, U.K. |
| Fri 9 July, 17:15 | Underlying Causes of Serpent Behaviour and Misbehaviour Murray Campbell, University of Edinburgh, U.K. |
18:00 :: Visit to the Barnes Collection, 3 East Castle Road. Bus leaves King's Buildings at 18:00
| Sat 10 July, 09:00 | The Fydill In Fist: Stringed Instruments from the Mary Rose Mary Anne Alburger, Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, U.K. |
| Sat 10 July, 09:40 | Viols and other Lumber Michael Fleming, The Open University, U.K. |
| Sat 10 July, 10:20 | The Barytons of Joachim Tielke (or the Case of the Missing Body) Terence Pamplin, London Guildhall University |
| Sat 10 July, 11:05 | Another Vihuela da Mano in the Paris Musée de la Musique ? Joël Dugot, Musée de la Musique, Paris, France |
| Sat 10 July, 11:35 | Constructing Culture: Guitar Makers in Spain Kevin Dawe, The Open University, U.K. |
12:00 :: Recital: solo lute and guitar - Reid Concert Hall
Rob MacKillop will play Scottish lute music, baroque guitar music by Gaspar Sanz, guitar music from a 19th-century Edinburgh manuscript book, and music by Fernando Sor. One or more original instruments from the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments will be used.
13:00 :: lunch break
| Sat 10 July, 14:00 | St Cecilia's Hall: its Musicians and Musical Instruments in the Eighteenth Century John Cranmer, University College Northampton, U.K. |
14:30 :: Galpin Society AGM - Concert Room, St Cecilia's Hall
15:30 :: Visit to the Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments - St Cecilia's Hall
16:30 :: Afternoon tea (included in conference fee) - Laigh Room, St Cecilia's Hall
17:30 :: Clavichord recital - Concert Room, St Cecilia's Hall
John Cranmer will play the unfretted clavichord by Johann Adolph Hass, Hamburg, 1763, from the Russell Collection. Recital to include the French Suite No. 3 by J.S. Bach, the Sonata in B minor by C.P.E. Bach, and 20-century clavichord music.
| Sun 11 July, 09:00 | Who was the Greatest Clarionet Player in Europe ? Tom Dibley, Deal, Kent, U.K. |
| Sun 11 July, 09:10 | Clarinet Transposition during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Albert Rice, Fiske Museum, Claremont Colleges, California, U.S.A. |
| Sun 11 July, 09:50 | Hallum Susan Thompson, Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A. |
| Sun 11 July, 10:00 | Dutch Baroque Traversos Jan Bouterse, Alphen a/d Rijn, Netherlands |
| Sun 11 July, 10:30 | The Quantz flute: lecture-demonstration Mary Oleskiewicz, America's Shrine to Music Museum, University of South Dakota, U.S.A. |
11:00 :: refreshments
| Sun 11 July, 11:20 | The French Trombone with Rear Bell Bruno Kampmann, Paris, France |
| Sun 11 July, 11:30 | Outstanding Trumpets, Trombones and Horns in the Musical Instrument Collection at the Historical Museum, Basel Sabine Klaus, Historisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland |
| Sun 11 July, 12:00 | Instruments of the Brass Septets of Finland Arnold Myers, University of Edinburgh, U.K. |
12:15 :: Skottiseitsikko - Reid Concert Hall (weather permitting, in George Square Gardens)
A brass septet with traditional Finnish instrumentation directed by William Giles will play a short programme including original compositions for the medium by Sibelius.
| Kornetto Es | Michael Hardy | |
| Kornetto B | Charles McKinnon | |
| Kornetto B | Andrew Kinnear | |
| Altto Es | Marian Kirton | |
| Tenori B | William Giles | |
| Baryton B | Carol Sandall | |
| Tuuba | Philip Randall |
12:45 :: lunch (included in conference fee) - 7 George Square (weather permitting, picnic in George Square Gardens)
| Sun 11 July, 14:00 | Silkers in the London Piano Trade c 1840-1860 Pauline Holden, Leicester, U.K. |
| Sun 11 July, 14:20 | A Copy of Ferdinand Weber's Account Book Jenny Nex and Lance Whitehead, Royal College of Music, London, U.K. |
| Sun 11 July, 14:50 | The Diatonically Fretted Clavichord before 1722 Maria Boxall, Fig Tree House Musick, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, U.K. |
15:30 :: refreshments
| Sun 11 July, 15:50 | Two More Recorders for the Music of Van Eyck Ture Bergstrøm, Musikhistorisk Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Sun 11 July, 16:20 | Good Bores, Frightful Bores, and the Recorder Alec Loretto, New Zealand |
| Sun 11 July, 17:00 | Fresh Information on the Spanish Dulcian in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries Beryl Kenyon de Pascual, Madrid, Spain |
| Sun 11 July, 17:10 | Claret's Bajón William Waterhouse, London, U.K. |
| Sun 11 July, 17:20 | Reconstruction of an 1870 Morton Contrabassophone Tom Dibley, Deal, Kent, U.K. |
17:50 :: close
Mon 12 July :: Making Good Musical Instruments: Can Acoustics Help ? Technical Research Forum
This will be a meeting for information and experience exchange between researchers in musical acoustics and makers of musical instruments. The latter will range from individual craft workers to industrial firms.
Mon 12 July :: Alternatively, Conference participants can visit the Museum of Scotland, close to the Conference Venue. This would be an informal visit to see this impressive new national museum.
Tue 13 July, 10:30 :: Galpin Society visit to the
National Museum of Piping at the Piping Centre, Glasgow.
Train for Glasgow leaves Edinburgh Waverley at 09:30, Edinburgh
Haymarket at 09:34.
The Piping Centre is housed in a listed building in Cowcaddens, near
Glasgow Queen's Street station, address: 30-34 McPhater Street,
Glasgow G4 0HW; tel/fax: +44 (0) 141 353 0220.
The National Museum of Piping is Britain's newest musical museum.
The Galpin Society will be welcomed by Hugh Cheape (National Museums of
Scotland).
Tue 13 July, 14:00 :: Galpin Society visit to the
Bernard Hague Collection of Wind Instruments at the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow.
This collection of 72 woodwind and brass instruments was bequeathed
to Glasgow University by Bernard Hague (1893-1960). It consist of: 4
flageolets; 1 double flageolet; 26 flutes (including Gerock, Goulding,
Astor, E.G.|Williams, Siccama model, Clinton Equisonant); 8 oboes
(including Astor, Cahusac, Gerock, Milhouse); oboe d'amore, cor angalais
(Morton); baritone oboe (Piatet) 10 clarinets (including Collier and
Miller, Baumann, Wolf, Prowse, Key); tenoroon; 5 bassoons; trompe
(Thibouville-Lamy); single-coil bugle (Couesnon); 3-valve trumpet
(Cazzani and Rampone); 2-valve trumpet in F (Köhler); 2 cornopeans
(Lewis & Tregear, Pask); alto valve trombone (Courtois); ballad horn
(Distin, perhaps the earliest surviving); bell-up circular vocal horn in
F and Eb (Besson); bass (made in Austria for Chappell); ophicleide;
keyed bugle (Smith, Wolverhampton); buglet (Keat); serpent.
Local Transport
| Friday 9th | leave Pollock Halls 08:30 for the Reid Concert Hall |
| Friday 9th | leave Bristo Square 14:00 for King's Buildings |
| Friday 9th | leave King's Buildings 18:00 for East Castle Road |
| Saturday 10th | leave Pollock Halls 08:30 for the Reid Concert Hall |
| Sunday 11th | leave Pollock Halls 08:30 for the Reid Concert Hall |
This page updated: 16.7.99; re-published 14.2.13