The Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments is organising a Symposium on early stringed keyboard instruments, to be held at St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh, 24-26 October 2008. The Symposium is in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the opening of St Cecilia's Hall Museum of Instruments and the inauguration of the Raymond Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments in 1968. (See details of early keyboard instruments in the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments.)

The 2008 CIMCIM meeting will now be taking place in Edinburgh immediately prior to this symposium.

Friday October 24

10:30

Meeting for CIMCIM members, Laigh Room, St Cecilia's Hall

10:30-12:30

Registration and visit to the Early Keyboard galleries, St Cecilia's Hall

13:10

Concert - An Eighteenth-century tour of Europe Gemma McGregor (baroque flute) and John Kitchen (harpsichord)

14:20

Ancestors of Jacob Kirkman Charles Mould (Woodstock, Oxfordshire)

14:40

The Parrot, the Tulip and the Frenchman - some Decorative Aspects of the late Stuart Spinet Peter Mole (University of Edinburgh)

15:20

Break

15:45

J.S. Bach's keyboard instruments: a summary, a few findings and a case for ornamentation. Neil Coleman (London)

16:25

Lecture/recital - Taking your Music with Fireworks: 18th century songs for theatre and pleasure garden Micaela Schmitz (Broadway, Worcestershire) with Abi Seabrook, voice

18:00 onwards

Champagne reception celebrating 40 years of the Raymond Russell Collection on display in Edinburgh

Saturday October 25

10:30

Lecture/recital - Rehabilitating Early Keyboard Instruments in their Creative Role Hendrik Bouman (Oxford)

11:10

Break

11:35

Reaching for the Top: strategies used by harpsichord makers to deal with the limited available space at the uppermost notes Pedro Bento (University of Edinburgh)

12:15

The Neapolitan Clavichord. News and Documents Francesco Nocerino (Naples, Italy)

12:55

Break for lunch

14:00

Mini Recital on playing an octave virginal by Malcolm Rose Tilman Skowroneck (Gothenberg, Sweden)

Virginals with centrally-placed keyboards Malcolm Rose (Lewes, Sussex)

14:40

A Construction Principle in Venetian Harpsichords Denzil Wraight (Naumburg, Germany)

15:10

Break

15:45

The "Encyclopédie ..." Michael Latcham (Gemeentemuseum, the Hague, Netherlands)

16:25

New information concerning the Florentine maker Vincenzio Sodi Virginia Rolfo (National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA)

19:30

Concert - Music by Haydn, on clavichord and piano Marcia Hadjimarkos (Montagny sur Grosne, France) Concert sponsored by the Friends of St Cecilia's Hall and Museum

Sunday October 26

10:30

Lecture/recital - 1808, from Portugal to Brasil: keyboard music at the move with the court of D. João VI Patricia Bastos (National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA)

11:10

Break

11:35

The "clavecins à maillet" of Marius and Veltman: new observations about the first pianos in France Giovanni di Stefano (University of Palermo, Sicily, Italy)

12:15

A Pandaleon-Clavecin by Frantz Joseph Spath, Regensburg, 1767? John Koster (National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA)

12:55

Break for lunch

14:00

Lecture/recital - Playing the fortepiano "full of expression" in Mozart's Piano Sonata in C, K.309 John Irving (University of Bristol)

14:40

Beethoven and the split damper pedal Tilman Skowroneck (Gothenberg, Sweden)

15:20

Break

15:45

The Earliest Upright Pianos? - Two Instruments by Robert Woffington of Dublin Darcy Kuronen (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA)

16:25

The "Rosetta-Stone" and other Wire gauges from 19th-century Vienna Alfons Huber (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria)

19:30

Concert - Music from Hamburg, on clavichord and harpsichord by J.A. Hass Sally Fortino (Basel, Switzerland) Concert sponsored by the Friends of St Cecilia's Hall and Museum

Monday October 27

Opportunity to view and study historic musical instruments in the University's collection in both St Cecilia's Hall Museum of Instruments and Reid Concert Hall Museum of Instruments, by appointment. Requests for items to be studied should be notified by e-mail in advance.