The Collection commissioned and purchased a second copy of its tenor recorder from the Renaissance period (possibly by the Bassano family) for perfomance purposes. Funding for this came from the Hope Scott Trust.
Further pictures of Collection instruments have been added to the EUCHMI website
bringing the total number of images freely available to 192 (of 190 instruments). By the end of the year the Collection's welcome page had received 239,000 visits.
A public lecture, The Swiss Alpine Horn was given on April 19th in the Reid Concert Hall by Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser. Professor Bachmann-Geiser's travel from Switzerland to Scotland for this event received financial support from Pro Helvetia.
Two Trumpet-Making Workshops were organised by EUCHMI, in April and July. These were successfully given by Robert L. Barclay and Richard Seraphinoff, who also made a trumpet which they presented to the University. Both courses were fully booked.
The Director/Curator represented the University at th meeting and conference of CIMCIM (the International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections) in St Petersburg.
The Director/Curator presented a research paper, How Brass Instruments were Invented at the Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society in Boston on June 20 an invited paper The Acoustics of Historic Brass Instruments at the 17th Congress of the International Musicological Society at Leuven, Belgium in August, and was an invited panellist at the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics: Musical Acoustics and an Interactive Musical Instruments Museum in Mexico City in December, presenting a paper The Mystery of the Missing Saxhorn.
The Collection has been used for teaching purposes by University Staff, in particular for courses on Organology, Ethnomusicology and Musical Acoustics. Several parties made organised visits, and various scholars and instrument makers have visited to study particular instruments. An increasing number of enquiries were answered, many by e-mail.
The Collection's Archives were re-catalogued and stored in new boxes. This work was carried out by Kelly White, with the support of a grant from the University of Edinburgh Collections Committee.
Information was provided for the Heritage Lottery Fund Audit in April.
On 1st August the management of the Collection was transferred from the Faculty of Music to the University Collections Office. Dr Arnold Myers continues as Director of EUCHMI; Dr Raymond Parks was appointed Honorary Curator of EUCHMI. In November Jacky Miller was appointed to the new post of Collections Support Officer, providing professional support for all the University's museums.
Arnold Myers, Director, 31st December 2002
[ Report for 2003 ] [ Report for 2001 ]
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This article was re-published on 23 December 2022