Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments

These 27 papers present original research from the world's leading experts in clarinet and woodwind studies. This compilation celebrates the contributions to clarinet and woodwind scholarship of the late Sir Nicholas Shackleton. The papers have been edited by Arnold Myers, Chairman of the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, assisted by Eleanor Smith (University of Edinburgh) and Heike Fricke. The bound volume of 272 full-colour pages contains the following papers presented at the Colloquium: CONTENTS Page 3 Foreword Arnold Myers, University of Edinburgh Page 7 Nicholas Shackleton: Collector extraordinaire William Waterhouse, London and Cheltenham Page 15 The Sir Nicholas Shackleton Collection in the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments: an Overview Heike Fricke, Berlin Page 25 Musical History: Historical Music Colin Lawson, Royal College of Music, London Page 31 The Viennese Wind Instrument Maker, Theodor Lotz (c 1747-1792) Melanie Piddocke, The Hague, Netherlands and Saintes, France Page 41 Heinrich Grenser's Keywork Concepts Eleanor Smith, University of Edinburgh Page 48 The Origin of French and German Clarinets Eric Hoeprich, Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands; Conservatoire de Paris; Indiana University, Bloomington Page 59 The Basset Horn in France in the Eighteenth Century Jean Jeltsch, Université de Lille, France Page 73 Clarinets of the Clinton Family James Joseph, Northumberland Page 79 Iwan Müller's Soprano Clarinet: Structural Evolution towards Adolphe Sax's Bass Clarinet Juncal Diago Ortega, Conseervatory of Music of A Coruña, Spain José-Modesto Diago Ortega, Conservatory of Music of Cadix, Spain Page 84 The Bass Clarinets of Adolphe Sax and their Historical Importance Albert R. Rice, Fiske Museum, Claremont Colleges, California Page 101 Extant Soprano Clarinets by Adolphe Sax Thomas Reil, Uhingen, Germany Page 115 The Early American Clarinet: Makers, Sellers, Players Jane Ellsworth, Eastern Washington University, USA Page 121 Boosey and Company: Trade in Clarinets in the Late Nineteenth Century Kelly White, Albuquerque, New Mexico Page 131 Resources for Clarinet Research in the Boosey & Hawkes Collection and Archive E. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Horniman Musuem, London Page 141 In Contemplation of the Clarinets at the Royal College of Music, London Ingrid Elizabeth Pearson, Royal College of Music, London Page 151 The Gaida Bagpipe in the Evros region of Greek Thrace: an Overview of an Organological Ethnography Haris Sarris, Greece Page 159 A Prescription for the Clarinet's Sore Throat: Throat B-flat Mechanisms as Illustrated Using Clarinets from the Sir Nicholas Shackleton Collection Deborah Check Reeves, National Music Museum, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, USA Page 173 The Reform Boehm system: Right Compromise Between French and German Systems ? Luigi Magistrelli, Italy Page 181 Stubbins S-K Mechanism Clarinet Nophachai Cholthitchanta, Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences, University of Arkansas, USA Page 191 Clarinet Forked E-flat/B-flat - a New Approach John Playfair, U.K. Page 195 The 'Stradivari Interview' - The Correlation between the Geometry of a Clarinet Mouthpiece and its Performance William Peatman, Berlin Page 215 The Home Key of the Clarinet John Dick, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, U.K. Page 225 Clarinets and Tárogatók used in the Viennese Court Opera under the Director Gustav Mahler Beatrix Darmstädter, Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Page 237 The 'Melba Gift': The Role of Woodwind and Brass Instruments in the History of the Stabilisation of Pitch Standards in Melbourne in the early Twentieth Century Simon Purtell, Norman Macgeorge Scholar, University of Melbourne, Australia Page 243 Brazilian Clarinet Music by the Composer Francisco Mignone and his 'Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra' Fernando José Silveira, Rio de Janeiro State Federal University, Brazil Page 248 The Derivation of Contemporary Performing Techniques Ian Mitchell, Trinity College of Music, London Page 255 The New Clarinet in Japan E. Michael Richards, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

Proceedings of the Clarinet and Woodwind Colloquium 2007 edited by Arnold Myers, Eleanor Smith and Heike Fricke
Book design by Heike Fricke
Published by Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
October 2012. 272 pages, full colour illustrations.
ISBN 978 0 907635 59 8

Price: 56.00 pounds sterling, including packing and postage to addresses in the United Kingdom

Price: 64.00 pounds sterling, including packing and postage to addresses in Europe

Price: 73.00 pounds sterling, including packing and postage, rest of World

Suggestion: you can purchase at the same time the Catalogue of the Sir Nicholas Shackleton Collection. This bound tome describes over 900 instruments and related items and is illustrated by over 1000 full colour illustrations. Published June 2007. 809 pages, 1024 illustrations. ISBN 978 0 907635 58 1 :: 63.00 pounds sterling including packing and postage to addresses in the United Kingdom :: 70.00 pounds sterling including packing and postage to addresses in the Europe :: 84.00 pounds sterling including packing and postage to rest of world.

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This article was re-published on 19 December 2022