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| Preface |
| Introduction: North America |
| Introduction: Rest of World |
| Menu of Country Pages |
The Directory is not yet complete in its international coverage: material is being added as work progresses. At present this directory contains few hypertext (live) links to the World-Wide Web pages of the museums and collections described. CIMCIM maintains a page with some links to the Web pages of members' museums. This publication is not available in printed form.
It is suggested that users download the files to be used to a local disk or diskette, then use their web browser to access the data. The Find function can be used to search the file by the name of the museum or collection, the name of an instrument or maker, or any other word.
Copyright in all material on this page and the Country Pages is vested in CIMCIM and the American Musical Instrument Society.
This Directory is a new edition of A Survey of Musical Instrument Collections in the United States and Canada, published in 1974 by the Music Library Association. The Survey was as an excellent reference work for over twenty years and the Directory should prove to be an even more valuable resource since it will be continually updated, corrected, and amended in its version accessible via the World-Wide Web. This Directory is the result of work by a committee of the American Musical Instrument Society consisting of Cecil Adkins, William E. Hettrick, Cynthia Adams Hoover, Barbara Lambert, J. Kenneth Moore, and Albert R. Rice as the chairman. Other members of the AMIS who have been helpful include: Richard Abel, Margaret Downie Banks, John Coltman, Robert Eliason, Michael Finkelman. Darcy Kuronen, Laurence Libin, Martha Maas, and Susan Thompson. The text has been prepared for Web publication by Arnold Myers.
The format of the Directory is very similar to that of the 1974 Survey. A collection is defined quantitatively as comprising at least 15 items, although a few smaller collections of historically significant instruments are included. Collections are listed by state (or Canadian province), city, and alphabetically by the name of the collection or collector. More than half of the collections (about 500) are preserved in museums and historical societies; the remainder are in private collections. A certain degree of permanence is assumed, as opposed to a dealer's stock in flux. Our definition of a musical instrument follows traditional wisdom: any sound-producing device from any culture, activated in any way, that is used for making what is commonly called "music". This includes automatic or mechanical instruments but excludes recording or playback equipment. Collections of modern reproductions of historical instruments used by college collegia musica are included, primarily to chronicle the 20th-century development of these reproductions.
A new feature in the Directory is the use of anonymous listings for individuals in care of an institutional collection or to the AMIS Membership Registrar, to which interested persons may apply to see the collection personally. A small number of collections that do not accept visitors are nevertheless listed in Directory in order to document particularly important instruments. The date indicated in the description of each collection indicates when the form was filled out by a staff member at a museum or the owner of the collection. The information included here was completed between 1990 and 1996.
Please send corrections and additions to the Directory to Albert R. Rice, email arrice@rocketmail.com
This International Directory replaces the printed first edition compiled by Jean Jenkins and published by Knuf for CIMCIM in 1977.
The material in this International Directory was gathered by questionnaire over the period 1988-1993. The material has been partially updated since then. The future development of this International Directory is being reviewed by CIMCIM.
The format of the International Directory is very similar to that of the 1977 edition. A collection is defined quantitatively as comprising at least 15 items, although a few smaller collections of historically significant instruments are included. Collections are listed on separate pages for each country, and alphabetically on each page by the locality. Temporary exhibitions are not included: a certain degree of permanence is assumed. Our definition of a musical instrument follows traditional wisdom: any sound-producing device from any culture, activated in any way, that is used for making what is commonly called "music". This includes automatic or mechanical instruments but excludes recording or playback equipment.
A new feature in this International Directory is the use of anonymous listings for private collections with contact addresses "care of" a museum or institution to which interested persons may apply to see the private collection personally or write for information. A small number of collections that do not accept visitors are nevertheless listed in this International Directory in order to document particularly important instruments.
Please send corrections and additions to the International Directory to Arnold Myers, e-mail A.Myers@ed.ac.uk
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| Austria | |
| Canada | |
| France |
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| Germany | large file - 230 kb |
| Republic of Ireland | |
| Italy | large file - 140 kb |
| Netherlands | |
| United Kingdom | large file - 190 kb |
| United States of America | large file - 253 kb |
| Rest of the World | summary and bibliographic information |
This Directory should be cited as the CIMCIM International Directory of Musical Instrument Collections,
Communications about this directory to
Kenneth Moore,
© CIMCIM and the American Musical Instrument Society 1998-2002, 2003.
This page updated: 30.9.03
Vice-President, CIMCIM,
Department of Musical Instruments,
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
New York, NY 10028
U.S.A.
E-mail: Ken.Moore@metmuseum.org