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CONFERENCE ON MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Edinburgh
23-25 JUNE 2022
URL: http://www.euchmi.ed.ac.uk/gxtpt.html
Timetable of Papers with links to Abstracts and Biographies
Wednesday 22nd June
18:00 - 20:00 Welcome reception with music at Edinburgh City Chambers
Thursday 23rd June
9:00 Session A, St Cecilia's Hall - Chair: Gabriele Rossi-Rognoni
09:00 Welcome to the University of Edinburgh: Jenny Nex, Curator of the instrument collection
09:10 Stephen Cottrell - Keynote: Musical Instruments and Object Biographies: Charlie Parker, Massey Hall, and Grafton 10265
09:45 Sandy Coffin - Instruments of Change: technical developments and brass chamber music repertoire in mid-nineteenth century Paris
10:15 Sabine Klaus - The C-Attachment for Cornets, a Convenience for Domestic Music Making
10:45 Arnold Myers, Joël Gilbert and Murray Campbell - The Precarious Place of the Saxhorn Basse in the Modern Instrumentarium
11:05 coffee
11:30 Session B, St Cecilia's Hall - Chair: Mimi Waitzman
11:30 Pascale Vandervellen, Chris Maene and Gregoir Basyn - The 1632 Ioannes Ruckers harpsichord 'ravali' by Ioannes Petrus Bull in the 1780s. A doubly valuable testimony to Antwerp harpsichord making
11:50 Lance Whitehead - Fashion Prints and Engravings: Sources for the Decoration of Taskin Harpsichords
12:10 Andreas Holzmann - The case for identifying Daniel Herz (1618-78) as the maker of an anonymous Southern German harpsichord
12:40 Elly Langford - The Stewart Symonds Collection Lyraflügel: Examining its Attribution to F.A. Klein
13:10 Break for lunch
14:30 Session C, St Cecilia's Hall - Chair: Eszter Fontana
14:30 Ardian Ahmedaja - The llautë and its uses and functions in local traditions in Albania
15:00 Sebastian Kirsch - From Solitude to Sociability - The 11-course theorboed Lute and the Viennese Lute Concert during the 18th century
15:30 tea
16:00 Demonstration of instruments from the University Collection: Scottish fiddle champion Tim MacDonald demonstrates violins and fiddles, including the Bassano 'violin without sides' and a selection of recently acquired Scottish-made instruments.
16:30 Session D, St Cecilia's Hall - Chair: Robert Bigio
16:30 James Kopp - The Conservatoire Model Contrabassoon by Buffet Crampon: Three Exemplars, c1885-1906
16:50 Albert Fontelles-Ramonet and Núria Bonet - Barítona: the lost instrument of the cobla
17:20 Stefaan Verdegem and Marcel Ponseele - The Bach Oboe reconsidered
17:50 session close
Friday 24th June
9:00 Session E, St Cecilia's Hall - Chair: Emma Lloyd
09:00 Thilo Hirsch - El son del purgamẽo: The Rabab in the Cantigas de Santa Maria and its Reconstruction
09:30 Kelli McQueen - A Hierarchy of Instruments in Troubadour Chansonniers: A New Comprehensive Look at Images and Their Implications for the Performance of Troubadour Melodies
09:50 Jean-Philippe Echard - Documenting antique musical instruments in 19th-century Parisian worskhops
10:10 coffee
10:35 Session F, St Cecilia's Hall - Chair: Rachael Durkin
10:35 Marguerite Jossic, Lidia Chang, Claudia Fritz, Olga Kannavou, Sebastian Kirsch, Stéphane Vaiedelich and Thierry Maniguet - Perspectives of 3D Printing for Historically Informed Playing: the case of Jacques Martin Hotteterre's E.999.6.1 traverso from the Musée de la musique collection
11:05 Fabien Guilloux and Emanuele Marconi - Camille Saint-Saëns and Wind Instruments
11:35 John Humphries, Rachael Durkin, and Jenny Nex - Panel: The Ingenious Mr Clagget: The Life, Work and Inventions of Charles Clagget
12:35 Break for lunch
13:50 Session G, St Cecilia's Hall - Chair: Ken Moore
13:50 Simon Waters - Revisiting the 'Social Life of Musical Instruments'
14:20 Christopher Miller - A Pa'O Khaya As Informant and Actant: Ethnographic Applications of New Materialism
14:50 Ignace De Keyser - Synthesizers for Darwin? On Prestige and Conservatism in the Evolution of Musical Instruments
15:20 tea
15:45 Demonstration of instruments from the University Collection: Tony George, Professor of Ophicleide and Serpent at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, demonstrates low brass including the contrabass serpent, 'The Anaconda'.
16:05 Session H, St Cecilia's Hall - Chair: Bradley Strauchen-Scherer
16:05 Arianna Rigamonti - Silent Musical Objects in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Italian Homes
16:35 Christian Breternitz - The Collection of Otto Friedrich Carl von Voß - A Source for (Domestic) Music Making in the late 18th Century?
17:05 Heike Fricke - Prince Günther's Wind music in Sondershausen
17:25 Bernhard Rainer - The Prodigy Richard Eduard Lewy (1827-1883): His Children's Instrument, Career and Musical Family
17:55 session close
20:00 Conference banquet, South Hall, Pollock Halls
Saturday 25th June
9:00 Session I, St Cecilia's Hall - Chair: Owen Woods
09:00 Michael Gale - New light on the career of John Chappington, Elizabethan organ-maker
09:30 Eleanor Smith - Bröderna Moberg: A case-study of Swedish organ restoration, seen through the lens of the SONORA project
09:50 Alan van Keeken - The home organ in West Germany 1958-1989. Theses on design and (economic) history of one of the most successful electronical instruments of the 20th century using the German based manufacturers Hohner and Dr. Böhm
10:20 coffee
10:45 Demonstration of instruments from the University Collection: Early keyboard specialist David Gerrard will perform on a selection of keyboard instruments in the collection.
11:05 Session J, St Cecilia's Hall - Chair: Adrian von Steiger
11:05 Robert Apple - A(n) (Un)Missing Link Between Keys and Valves: Three Keyed Trumpet Solo Works Arranged for Early Valved Trumpet, Flügelhorn, and Valved Trombone by Joseph Kail for the Prague Conservatory
11:35 Ryoto Akiyama - The Oval Flugelhorn as Nightingale Preaching the Gospel: Personal Music Practice of Johannes Kuhlo and his Protestant Consciousness
12:05 Alexander McGrattan - Brass playing at the Moravian settlement at Fulneck, Yorkshire, during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
12:25 Break for lunch and Galpin Society Committee meeting
13:40 Session K, St Cecilia's Hall - Chair: John Hails
13:40 Daniel Wheeldon - Social Media and Musical Instrument Research: a case study from a viral video
14:00 Heidi von Rüden - The Berlin Guitars in the 19th Century
14:15 Daniela Kotašová - The Harps of Czech instrument maker Alois Červenka
14:30 Michael Fleming - TABULA NON RASA: The Eglantine Table
15:00 Galpin Society Annual General Meeting, St Cecilia's Hall
16:00 tea
16:25 Session L, St Cecilia's Hall: Chair: Murray Campbell
16:25 Albert Rice - The Innovations and Accomplishments of Jacques François Simiot and Johann Heinrich Gottlieb Streitwolf
16:55 Sue Ryall - Perceptions of timbre; how the Reform-Böhm clarinet is influencing the modern clarinet landscape
17:25 Robert Šebesta - An Evaluation of the Schöllnast Company's Basset horn Manufacture
17:55 session close
Sunday 26th June
9:30 Depart for Kilmarnock
Excursion to view items from Lord Howard de Walden collection of historic musical instruments
Further information: e-mail: euchmi@ed.ac.uk
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