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University museum, musical instruments included within ethnographic collections.
Tel: (01224) 273131.
Primary responsibility: curator.
Open: 10-17 M-F, 14-17 Su; closed: 25 Dec.-3 Jan.
Collection: approx. 150 instruments from Asia, Africa, North and South America, Oceania. Some are archaeological. Not a systematic musicological collection but part of a general ethnographic collection.
History: Museum established in 1907 by Professor Robert Reid who brought together the King's College Archaeological Collection; Dr. Robert Wilson's Collection of Near Eastern Antiquities, 1871; Dr. James Grant Bey's Egyptology Collection, 1897; and the Sir William MacGregor Collection Ethnography Collection (mainly S-E New Guinea).
Services: education, photography.
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National Trust property wih musical instruments.
Tel: (01926) 651211.
Governing Organization: National Trust.
Open: 13-17, W-Su, Apr through October.
Collection: 13 instruments, primarily French 18th or early 19th century, incl. ivory recorder, Zick, Nürnberg, 17th c.; oboe, Richters; 2 musettes, late 18th c.; field trumpet, Haas, Nürnberg, late 17th, early 18th c.; faience hunting horn, France, mid-18th c.; pochette Iacobus Fichtold, Roma, 1695; music box; harp, France, ca. 1760; grand piano, Erard, Paris, 19th c.; etc. Assembled by the Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild and Miss Alice de Rothschild during the 19th c. and part of the James A. de Rothschild Collection.
Services: Private morning tours.
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Provincial museum, instruments incorporated in a general collection.
Tel: (01833) 690606.
Governing organization: Durham County Council as trustees.
Primary responsibility: Curator, Furniture and Woodwork Department.
Open: 10-17:30 M-F; (close 17 h. Mar. & Oct.; close 16 h. Nov.-Feb 14-17 Su; (close 16 h. Nov.-Feb.)
Collection: approximately 70 instruments including 6 keyboards (J. & A. Kirckman harpsichord, London, 1785; Haxby square piano, York, 1794; Broadwood grand piano, London, 1794; Stodart cabinet piano, London, 1806; Waite cabinet piano, London, 1825); and several barrel organs: Longman & Broderip, London, late 18th c. and anon., England, mid-19th c. Also: locally-made violins; union pipes; serpent, Thomas Percival (1790-1848), London; mechanical and ethnographic musical instruments.
History: Founder's bequest included instruments collected primarily for decorative art interest. Subsequent (post-1892) additions include items of local interest and many collected as historical documents. Collection includes several 18th-c. stringed and wind instruments. During the 1970s some pianos were restored to playing condition.
Services: concerts, guided tours.
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Municipal museum, musical instruments incorporated within a general collection.
Tel: (01924) 472514
Governing organization: Kirklees Metropolian Council, Cultural Services, which also has jurisdiction over the Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield, West Yorks., HD5 8DJ
Primary responsibility: Community curator.
Open: 10-17 M-F, 12-17 Sa-Su, Mar. through Oct 12-17 M-Su, Nov. through Feb.
Collection: 30 instruments including locally made stringed instruments, Asian, and many African instruments.
History: Museum founded in 1911 to exhibit a wide variety of objects from world-wide cultures, including musical instruments.
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Private charitable trust; musical instruments incorporated within a general collection.
Tel: (01225) 466669.
Open: 11-17 M-Sa, 14:30-18 Su; closed: mid-Dec. through mid-Feb. + Mondays: Nov. through Easter.
Collection: Sebastian Erard single-action harp, 1802; Johann Schantz fortepiano, Vienna, 1795-1800; quartet stand, 18th c., reputedly Haydn's.
History: Collection of decorative arts and paintings formed by Sir Thomas William Holburne (1793-1874); museum established in 1893 by bequest of Holburne's sister Mary Ann Barbara. Augmented since by gift and bequest, including all instruments. Study centre for 20th c. crafts established in mid- 1970s.
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National museum, musical instruments incorporated in a general collection.
Tel: (01232) 381251; Fax: (01232) 665510
Primary responsibility: Curator of Antiquities; Curator of Local History
Open: 10-18 daily; to 21 W.
Collection: 103 musical instruments: 6 Bronze Age instruments: Side-blown and end-blown horns, Drumbest td. County Antrim + 4 fragmentary instruments;
3 Medieval instruments: 2 wooden horns, one Early Christian and/or Medieval from River Bann, the other with bronze strips form Lough Erne, near Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Medieval; jews harp, Carrickfergus excavations, Co. Antrim, late Medieval;
77 ethnographic instruments: wind, stringed, percussion instruments from North and Latin America, Pacific Basin, South-East Asia, India, Middle East and Africa.
17 Irish instruments: incl. 5 harps, 2 sets Uilleann pipes.
Services: Permanent exhibition and frequent temporary exhibitions, occasional concerts, lectures and films.
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Municipal museum, musical instruments incorporated in a general collection.
Tel: (0121) 235 2824.
Primary responsibility: Curators of Department of Archaeology and Ethnography, Local History.
Open: 10-18 M-Sa; 14-17 Su.
Collection: 202 instruments: 17 European; 10 Middle Eastern; 65 African; 40 Oceanian; 45 Asian; 15 American, and 10 miscellaneous instruments.
History: 7 of the European instruments are from the Pinto Collection of Wooden Bygones.
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Municipal museum, mechanical musical instruments incorporated in a general collection.
Tel: (0121) 236 1022.
Primary responsibility: Departmental director.
Open: 9-17 M-Sa, 14-17 Su.
Collection: 50 mechanical musical instruments including 10 organs, 2 pianolas, 2 musical clocks, 3 polyphons, symphonium, 24 musical boxes, 9 automata.
History: Twenty-three of the instruments are from the Pat Liddell Collection.
Services: Permanent exhibition. Tape of orchestrion organ tunes; tape of other instruments on display. Orchestrion played 1st and 3rd Wednesdays each month, at Steam Weekends, and at the annual Traction Engine Rally.
Publication: Illustrated museum guidebook.
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Musical instruments collection in a conservatory of music.
Tel: (0121) 331 7211.
Primary responsibility: Instrument Custodian.
Open: Viewing by appointment only.
Collection: 23 instruments of the Lancelot Keye Collection; collection of Dodd bows, some further items.
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Municipal museum, musical instruments incorporated in a general collection.
Tel: (01202) 551009.
Open: 10-17 M-Sa.
Collection: 52 instruments including early virginals, English and French pianos, mainly 19th c., grand piano by Erard, ethnographic instruments from Asia, especially Japan, and Africa, some from the Russell-Cotes Collection.
History: Some instruments come from the Russell-Coates and Lucas Collections.
Services: permanent and temporary exhibitions, winter music programs, photograph and photostat services, descriptive catalogue in mss., study visits by appointment.
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Private charitable trust museum.
Tel: (011) 560-8108
Primary responsibility: director, curator.
Open: 14-17 Sa-Su from Apr-Oct.
Collection: over 100 mainly automatic keyboard instruments, including 12 reproducing player pianos, barrel pianos, 3 organs, orchestrions, musical boxes and gramophones. Accessories include 30,000 music rolls, 10,000 of which are famous pianists' performances from 1904 on.
History: originally the private collection of Frank W. Holland. Founded in 1963, registered in 1966 with the Department of Education and Science as a charitable trust. Includes 11 older, non-automatic instruments on display since 1973 at Holdenby House (stately home), near Northampton.
Services: guided tours, private parties, photographic releases.
Publications: coloured brochures, newsletter.
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Municipal museum.
Tel: (01273) 603005
Primary responsibility: Keeper of Ethnography and Musical Instruments
Open: 10-17.45 Tu-Sa, 14-17 Su. Closed M.
Collection: Approximately 680 Western musical instruments, including 170 originally in the Spencer collection, and nearly 450 whistles and similar instruments in the M. Willins collection. Overall, the collection is particularly strong in aerophones, many cordophones, a few idiophones and membranophones; one mechanical instrument. Some music and accessories. A large number of musical instruments is included in the ethnography collections.
History: The museum was founded in 1893. The M. Willins Collection of whistles and other aerophones was acquired in 1950; the major acquisition in 1960 was the Albert Spencer Collection.
Services: Display of some instruments; public education services; reserve collections can be seen by appointment and with completed information form.
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Municipal museum, musical instruments in a general collection.
Tel: (01179) 506789
Primary responsibility: Curator of Agricultural and Social History
Collection: approximately 35 instruments, 12 Bristol-made pianos.
History: the collection of musical instruments was begun in 1950 with occasional donations. The Mickleburgh Collection of Bristol-made pianos was donated to the City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery in 1982. See also Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments for the non- keyboard part of the Mickleburgh Collection; and a Christies Auction sale catalogue of 6 March 1986 for the sale of some of the mechanical instruments from the E.Roy Mickleburgh Collection.
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Tel: (0131) 650-2423
Open: by appointment only with a written recommendation from a staff member of a public collection of musical instruments, or a well-known musical instrument specialist.
Collection: approximately 32 keyboard instruments, mainly early English pianos, including grands by: Joseph Kirckman, ca. 1800; John Broadwood & Sons, 1808, 1844; Giovanni Heichele, Trieste, ca. 1810; William Stodart & Son, ca. 1828; Pierre Erard, London, 1836; Robert Wornum & Sons, 1872; Steinway, 1911; upright grands by: Muzio Clementi & Co., 1806; John Broadwood & Sons, 1817/18; square pianos by: Christopher Ganer, ca. 1785; John Broadwood, 1792; John Broadwood & Son, 1801; Muzio Clementi & Co., 1803; William Rolfe & Sons, ca. 1810; Clementi & Co., 1822; John Broadwood & Sons, 1835; upright pianos by: William Southwell & Son, Dublin, 1799/1800; Robert Wornum, ca. 1828, ca. 1841; Clementi & Co., 1828; John Broadwood & Sons, 1833, 1866; William Rolfe & Sons, ca. 1835; George Russell, 1895; C. Bechstein, 1954. Collection also includes harpsichords by: Longman & Broderip (Thomas Culliford), 1 manual, 1785; Andrew Garlick, 2 manuals, 1975, one manual, 1982. Clavichord by Anthony Chappell, 1979; reed organ by Bell
Organ Co., Guelph, Ontario, 1893; and 4 miscellaneous instruments
History: Collection was begun in 1975.
Services: tours, performances, lectures.
Publications and recordings: list available.
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National Trust property with musical instruments.
Tel: (01386) 852410
Governing organization: National Trust.
Primary responsibility: Administrator.
Open: from Easter through October. 11-13, 14-17 Sa-Su, Easter & Apr, Oct. 11-13, 14-17 W-Su & bank holiday M, May-Sept.
Collection: About 90 European art instruments, primarily 19th c. winds, strings and a few percussion; one portative organ
History: Founded in the 1920s, opened in 1952. Collection illustrates craftsmanship.
Services: guided tours
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Municipal museum, instruments incorporated in a general collection.
Tel: (01284) 769834; Fax: (01284) 757124.
Governing organization: St. Edmundsbury Borough Council.
Primary responsibility: Curator of Local History
Open: 10-17, M-Sa, 14-17 Su; closed winter bank holidays
Collection: 14 primarily English instruments, including: recorder (voice flute) by Peter Bressan, ca. 1710; oboe stamped Longman & Broderip, late 18th c.; dital harp by Edward Light, ca. 1810; hunting horn; polyphon, ca. 1800. 2 barrel pianos rebuilt by Canon Wintle, Lawshall, ca. 1940; English chamber organ; reed organ, ca. 1907; aeolian harp by poet Robert Bloomfield, 1808; French flutina stamped Oates, Dublin; music box, Dimier & Co., Switzerland, ca. 1830.
History: Museum founded 1899 when the collection of the Sufolk Institute of Archaeology was transferred to Moyse's Hall. Local history material continually acquired.
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University museum, instruments incorporated in a applied arts collection.
Tel: (01223) 332900; Fax: (01223) 332923
Governing organization: University of Cambridge
Primary responsibility: Keeper of Applied Art Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books
Open: 10-17 Tu-Sa; lower galleries 10-14, upper galleries 14-17, Tu-Sa 14.15-17 Su. Closed M except Easter M, spring and summer bank holidays. Closed Good Friday, May Day bank holiday, and 24 Dec. to 1 Jan. inclusive.
Appointment necessary for reserve collections or to examine instruments on display.
Collection: spinnetta a tavola, Italy, early 17th c.; harpsichord, probably Florence, 17th c.; square piano, Sebastien Erard, Paris, 1790; pitch pipe formerly used in Eden Baptist Chapel, Cambridge; Guitar, Italy, ca. 1625; theorbo, Germany, 18th c., labelled: Antonius Bachmann, Berlin, 1788; Guitar, Germany, 19th c. Important collection of manuscripts and printed music.
History: The musical instruments were acquired at different times during the 20th century, all by gift or bequest. A large portion of the manuscript music was bequeathed in 1816 by the founder of the museum, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam.
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University museum, instruments incorporated in anthropological collections.
Tel: (01223) 333516
Governing organization: University of Cambridge
Primary responsibility: Curator
Open: 14-16 M-F, 10-12.30 Sa, except for one week each at Christmas and Easter Reserve collections available only by appointment.
Collection: over 1000 instruments in anthropological collection; all continents represented.
History: The museum was founded in 1884. The Laurence E.R. Picken Collection was acquired in 1977.
Services: exhibition, university teaching, research.
Publications: none, however there is a single typescript of the Picken Collection catalogue that is available for reference.
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Municipal museum, instruments incorporated in a general collection.
Tel: (01228) 34781; Fax: (01228) 810249
Governing organization: Carlisle City Council.
Primary responsibility: Keeper of Fine and Decorative Art.
Open: 10-17 M-Sa. The musical instruments are in storage; an appointment is necessary to see them.
Collection: 38 musical instruments, including a violino piccolo by Andrea Amati, Cremona 1574, from the Charles IX of France set (for others from this set, see Oxford, the Ashmolean Museum), also violin, viola and violoncello by members of the Cumberland-born family: William Forster, Jr., London, 1804, Simon Forster, London, 1839, William Forster, Sr., London, 1792, respectively. The collection also includes 19th c. flutes and clarinets.
History: The collection developed out of gifts and bequests; Miss S.M. Mounsey of Heysham donated the above-mentioned strings.
Publications: a checklist is available on request.
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Municipal museum, instruments incorporated in a general collection.
Tel: (01242) 237431; Fax: (01242) 262334
Governing organization: Cheltenham Borough Council
Primary responsibility: Assistant Keeper of Applied Art
Open: 10-17.20, M-Sa; closed bank holidays.
Collection: about 40 instruments: 20 ethnic instruments; 20 Western art instruments, including double flageolet by John Simpson, London, late 1830s; ivory piccolo by Christopher Gerock, London, ca.1810; flutes by Caleb Gedney, London, 1760s, D'Almaine, London, 1840s; earthenware flute, Neil Ions, Gloucestershire, 1987; oboe, attr. Henry Kusder, London, late 18th c.; clarinet by J.B. Cramer & Co., London, mid-19th c.; 2 coach horns, 1 ca. 1840; bugle; ?trumpet, Henry Potter & Co., London, ca. 1897; serpent by Henry Potter, London, 1840s, ?German zither; square piano (patent repeater grand) by Collard & Collard, London, ca. 1855; upright piano stamped Ireleaben Bros.; organ by Bell Piano Co., Ontario; chamber organ by Longman & Broderip, London, ca. 1800.
Publications: Checklist of the Western instruments available on request.
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Municipal museum, instruments incorporated in a general collection.
Tel: (01242) 524846; Fax: (01242) 262334
Governing organization: Cheltenham Borough Council
Primary responsibility: Assistant Keeper of Applied Art
Open: 10-17.20, M-Sa; closed bank holidays.
Collection: 3 instruments on display: grand piano by Collard & Collard, London, 1850s, owned by Holst 1913-1934; double-action harp by Sebastian Erard, ca. 1820, ser. no. 2563; square piano by Henry Smart, London.
History: Regency house, birthplace of composer Gustav Holst in 1874. Displays feature Holst's life and music. 19th-c. period furnishings including a working Victorian kitchen and laundry.
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Municipal museum, instruments incorporated in a general collection.
Tel: (01244) 321616
Governing organization: Chester City Council
Primary responsibility: Curator of Local History
Open: 10.30-17 M-Sa, 14-17 Su
Collection: 20 instruments: set of 4 recorders (treble in F, voice flute in D, tenor in C, bass in F), plus 2 treble recorders in F and E-flat by Peter Bressan (1683-1731), London; 2 piccolos: one by Metzler, London, ca. 1800, one anonymous, 19th c.; 2 transverse flutes: by Monzani & Co., London, 1813, and by Goulding, D'Almaine, Potter & Co., London, early 19th c.; jews harp frame; 5 bugles: one a Kentish by Charles Pace, Westminster, one a keyed by Joseph Greenhill, London, both ca. 1825, and one by G. Butler, London, 1877; serpent, ca. 1800 used at Standlake Church, Oxfordshire; aeolian harp; table piano by Thomas Tomkinson, London, ca. 1830; upright piano, John Square, London, ca. 1870.
Recording: "The Chester Recorders", works by Dieupart, Hotteterre, Faber and Corelli, performed by Alan Davis, Helen Jeynes, Paul Clark, Suzanne Madin, John Craven on the Bressan recorders. LP. Plant Life Records, Ltd.
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Private collection open to the public.
Tel: (01243) 785421
Primary responsibility: Proprietor
Open: 10-18 daily, Easter - 30 September; 10-17 Sa-Su, 1 October - Easter
Collection: about 100 mechanical instruments all in working order, including musical boxes, barrel pianos, barrel organs, ochestrions, fair organs, phonographs and early gramophones.
History: Private collection opened to the public in 1983, displayed in a Victorian church.
Services: tours during which a selection of instruments are played.
Recordings: cassettes of instruments available.
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Municipal museum, instruments incorporated in a general collection.
Tel: (01206) 712935; Fax: (01206) 712288
Governing organization: Colchester Borough Council, Department of Culture and Leisure Services.
Primary responsibility: Assistant Keeper, Social History
Open: 10-17, M-Sa; by appointment for reserve collections.
Collection: about 12 instruments most of which are locally made and 19th c., including organs, harmonium, flutes, oboe by Caleb Gedney, London, ca. 1760, late 18th-c. serpent.
History: Museums founded 1860.
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Governing organization: National Trust.
Primary responsibility: Assistant Keeper
Open: 10-17 M-Sa, except Tynwald Day morning 5 July, Christmas, New Year's Day, and Good Friday. Only a small number of instruments on display; appointment necessary to view reserve collections.
Collection: about 40 instruments, including 2 church barrel organs (Santan Church's seraphim by Wrenshall, Liverpool, ca. 1755; Old St. Matthews Church organ by T.C. Bates, London, ca. 1840); melodeon; 5 pianos; 2 horn spoons with whistles; ?18th c. jew's harp; bugle, belonged to Major C. Bacon, 1791-1876; post horn; 4 drums (2 from Manx Fencibles, one from Foxdale Miners, one from Castletown Band); 1-string fiddle, ca. 1895; 1-key piccolo by E.G. Williams, London, ca. 1825; 7 flutes; clarinet from Onchan Friendly Society, 1812; 3 serpents (one used in church, one in Manx Fencibles. Music manuscripts, notebooks, and travel or manuscript books of Manx songs and traditional Manx dance are in the museum's National Archives.
History: Museum founded in 1886 under the Act of Tynwald; moved to present quarters in 1922. All objects were either associated with collected by local folk-life collectors or made on the Isle of Man during the 19th and 20th centuries. Many of the instruments were either used in local churches or by the local militia.
Services: tours by appointment; photographs.
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Municipal museum.
Tel: (01382) 23141, ext. 136.
Governing organization: City of Dundee District Council.
Primary responsibility: Curator
Open: 10-17 M-Sa; closed Su, 25-26 December, and 1-2 January.
Collection: ca. 65 instruments including keyboards, ca. 1750-1830; small stringed and wind instruments, ethnic instruments up to 1900.
History: Museum founded 1873, Methven Simpson collection of keyboard instruments bequeathed in 1919 by music dealer William Simpson.
Services: permanent exhibition, guided tours and educational services, concerts and lectures, conservation laboratory.
Publications: descriptive catalogue in manuscript; information leaflet about the keyboard instruments on display.
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Private musical instrument manufacturer's museum.
Tel: (0181) 952-7711; Fax: (0181) 951-3556
Governing organization: Boosey and Hawkes Musical Instruments Ltd.
Primary responsibility: Advertising and Promotions Manager
Open: 10 and 14, W, as part of factory tours by appointment
Collection: 340 mainly brass and woodwind instruments, England and the Continent, 1700 to date.
History: museum was established by David Blaikley (1846-1936) and moved in 1971 to its present location. The aim of the collection is to illustrate the development of modern band and orchestral wind instruments including experiments.
Services: guided tours by appointment on Wednesdays
Publications:
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University collection of musical instruments.
Tel: (0131) 650-2423; Fax: (0131) 650-2425; E-mail: A.Myers@ed.ac.uk
Governing organization: Faculty of Music, University of Edinburgh.
Primary responsibility: Director/Curator.
Open: 10-13 Sa., 15-17 W, (also 14-17 M-F during Edinburgh Festival)
Collection: Approximately 2500 instruments of all kinds, including important holdings of plucked string, woodwind, brass and percussion, and an archive of organological documents. It includes a number of private collections, both acquired and on loan. This collection and the University's Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments are complementary.
History: The collection was founded in the 1850s to support university teaching.
From 1968 until 1980 it was known as the "Galpin Society Permanent Collection".
The Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments was formally established in 1980.
EUCHMI occupies the gallery built for it in 1859, which is probably the oldest purpose-built musical museum building anywhere which still fulfil their original purpose.
The following private collections have been subsumed into EUCHMI:-
- Reid Collection of about 100 European and oriental wind, string and percussion instruments, assembled between ca. 1850 and 1980 by the university's professors of music.
- Galpin Society (founded in 1946) Collection of 6 European wind and keyboard instruments were acquired between 1946 and 1980. The title to them passed to the University in 1980. The two keyboard instruments are housed in the University's Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments.
- Francis Geoffrey Rendall (London, 1890-1953) Collection of 107 European woodwind instruments (some others were destroyed during WW II) assembled throughout the collector's lifetime. The collection was acquired by EUCHMI in 1980.
- Part 1 of the Glen [family and musical-instrument-business wind, percussion, tools, and woodwind keys] Collection in Edinburgh, including a total of some 300 instruments owned by brothers: pipe and flute maker Thomas McBean Glen (1804-1873) and bagpipe maker Alexander Glen (1801-1873). Thomas' sons were John (1833-1904) who collected traditional Scottish music; and musical instrument collector Robert (1835-1911). John's son Thomas Glen (1867-1951) inherited the business and collection in 1911. The firm was active from ca. 1830 to 1978; the collection of about 400 instruments total of all types save keyboards was acquired throughout this period. [See also Edinburgh, the Royal Scottish Museum [National Museums of Scotland], to which a few instruments were sold in 1908; the Glasgow Museum & Art Gallery to which many instruments were sold in 1942; Edinburgh, Arnold Myers's collection which acquired a few Glen Collection brasswinds in 1981.) EUCHMI purchased the balance of the Glen collection in 1983, except for the bagpipes, which, however are
also on loan there.
- The Ross Collection, Edinburgh -- including significant collections of bagpipes and 60 percussion -- formed by Andrew McKay Ross (1891-1979), and his son Andrew James Ross (1930-1980). Andrew McKay Ross was a Glen relative and bagpipe maker who purchased the Thomas Glen branch of the business and the collection in 1947 and the Alexander Glen branch of the business in 1949. Many instruments have been added to the collection since the 1950s. The percussion were sold to EUCHMI in 1983. (See also Edinburgh's National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland to which the bagpipes were sold in 1983, although they remain on loan to EUCHMI.)
- Lyndesay G. Langwill (Edinburgh, 1897-1983) Collection. Includes 30 instruments: bassoons and other woodwind, collected between 1933 and 1968, and given to EUCHMI in 1981.
- E. Roy Mickleburgh (Bristol, 1914-1984) Collection. Contains 26 instruments, mostly woodwind, collected, as was the entirety, between 1943 and 1984. The total number of instruments in the collection was 600. (See also City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery for the Mickleburgh Collection of Bristol-Made Pianos; and Edinburgh, Arnold Myers's collection, for the brasswind instruments from the Mickleburgh collection.) The woodwind instruments were purchased by EUCHMI in 1981 and 1987. Other pianos and mechanical instruments were sold; the balance remains at 1 Stokes Croft, Bristol.
- Anne Macaulay Collection. Consists of about 50 European plucked string instruments, assembled during the 1960s given to EUCHMI in two parts: 1977 and 1985.
- James Blades Collection of about 70 percussion instruments assembled from about 1925 to 1980. This group of instruments, acquired by EUCHMI in stages since 1982 as purchases and gifts is the most historic part of the collection. Blades is a professional musician, and the collection is is professional kit. His more modern instruments are going to players.
- Charles H. Brackenbury (d. 1979) Memorial Collection, including nearly 200 woodwind and bowed string instruments with a few other types. It was collected by his father Hereward Irenius Brackenbury (1869-1938), Berwick-on-Tweed, between 1920 and 1938. A number of important instruments were purchased from the van Raalte Collection, Brownsea Island probably in 1927, as well as on the Continent. (For the remainder of the van Raalte Collection, see Kilmarnock, Scotland, Dean Castle.) The keyboard instruments in the Brackenbury collection were sold; the remainder was accepted by the state in lieu of taxes and given to the University of Edinburgh in 1991.
Private collections on loan include:-
- John B. Dick Collection. A portion, ca. 30 wind instruments, are on loan to EUCHMI. The remainder of his collection is at his home.
- Peter Cooke Collection, on loan to EUCHMI since 1983. It includes about 80 mostly Ugandan instruments, collected in the mid-1960s.
- Christopher Monk (1921-1991) Collection. Consists of about 23 brass and other lip-reed instruments assembled between about 1950 and 1991. Those of historic interest were purchased by Arnold Myers and loaned to EUCHMI with the his collection. The few remaining, which are more recently-made instruments were sold to players by the collector's family.
- Arnold Myers's collection of several hundred European brasswind, a few woodwind and non-Euroepan lip-reed instruments, including some of the Mickleburgh Collection, most of Christopher Monk's Collection, and a few objects ex-Messrs. J. & R. Glen. On indefinite loan to EUCHMI.
- Shaw-Hellier Collection. Instruments acquired by Sir Samuel Hellier (ca. 1736-1784) include wind instruments, drums and a tambourine. This collection was added to by Col. T.B. Shaw-Hellier (d. 1910) to form the Shaw-Hellier Collection. On indefinite loan to EUCHMI since 1993.
Services: photography, technical drawings, exhibitions, publications, lectures, etc.
Publications:
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Public art and anthropological museum with musical instruments.
Tel: (0131) 225-7534
Governing organization: Trustees of the National Museums of Scotland.
Primary responsibility: Keeper of History and Applied Art Scottish collection: Assistant Keeper. Non-Scottish collections: Assistant Keepers of European Art; Oriental Art; African, the Americas and Pacific Art.
Open: 10-17, M-Sa,; 14-17 Su; closed Christmas and New Year Day.
Collections:
History: The earliest part of the National Museums was founded in 1781.
Musical instruments have been acquired randomly since 1872 and incorporated in the general collection. The National Museums of Scotland was formed in 1985 by merging the Royal Scottish Museum and the National Museum of the Antiquities of Scotland.
Since the early 1980s acquisitions have been made with an eye possibly towards forming a Scottish bagpipe museum.
Partly on loan to Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments [see above].
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University museum.
Tel: (0131) 650-2805; Fax: (0131) 650-2805; E-mail: Russell.Collection@ed.ac.uk
Governing organization: Faculty of Music, University of Edinburgh
Primary responsibility: Dr Grant O'Brien, Curator/Director
Open: 14-17, W, Sa (10.30-12.30 M-Sa during Edinburgh Festival)
Collection: ca. 50 European early keyboard instruments, including virginals, spinets, harpsichords, clavichords, early pianos and organs, by celebrated makers such as Ioannes and Andreas Ruckers, Johann Adolf Hass, Pascal Taskin, Jean Goermans, Jacob Kirckman, Burkat Shudi and John Broadwood. One of the most copied instruments in the Russell Collection is the double-manual harpsichord by Pascal Taskin, Paris, 1769. All major schools of European keyboard instrument making are represented from the period 1585 to ca. 1830. A library and archives includes books, scores, photographs, Russell's notebooks and his collection of photographic negatives and prints of keyboard instruments from his own as well as other collections, technical drawings, iconography, and recordings.
History: Approximately half of the collection belonged to the late Raymond Russell (1922-1964). The major part of his collection was given to the University by Mrs. Gilbert Russell in memory of her son. The remainder have been added since using public funds and monies raised by the Friends of St Cecilia's Hall (http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/russell/friends.html).
Services: permanent exhibition, guided tours, regular concerts in the adjoining St. Cecilia's Hall (built in 1764 for the Edinburgh Musical Society), the library and archives, modern instruments for student practice, post- graduate research program, workshops and recording studios. Postcards, recordings, line drawings and photographs available for sale.
Publications:
Web URL: http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/russell/index.html.
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National museum: musical instruments incorporated within a general collection.
Tel: (0131) 224-7534, ext. 400; Fax: (0131) 220-4819
Governing organization: National Museums of Scotland
Primary responsibility: Curator
Open: 9.30-17.30, M-Sa; 11-17.30 Su
Collection: mainly military instruments used by military bands, including a 12-key ophicleide by Glen of Edinburgh.
Partly on loan to Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments [see above].
Publications: for catalogues and checklists, contact: Museum Trading Company, Royal Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF
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Municipal museum: musical instruments incorporated into a general collection.
Tel: (01392) 265858; Fax: (01392) 421252.
Governing organization: Exeter Museums Service, Exeter City Council
Primary responsibility: Curator of Decorative Arts
Open: 10-17.30, Tu-Sa. Reserve collection by appointment.
Collection: about 30 instruments primarily 19th c. winds made in England, Italy and France mainly from local church and military bands, but including a decorated virginals by Charles Rewallyn, Exeter, 1679; and a harpsichord by Vincenzio Sodi, Florence, 1782. There are also instruments from Africa and Asia.
Services: permanent and temporary exhibitions, photographs and slides on request.
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Private collection.
Tel: (01580 211702.
Primary responsibility: director; curator/conservator.
Open: 14-18 W-Su and bank holidays, from Easter to the end of October; and by appointment.
Collection: Over 70 keyboard instruments, dating from the late seventeenth through the first two-thirds of the nineteenth centuries. Includes: 5 English pipe organs, 1 free-reed organ; 2 clavichords: 1806 Lindholm och Soederstroem and 1807 Schmal; 17 harpsichord family instruments incl. 1668 Guarracino virginal, 1774 Blasser harpsichord, 1742 Mahoon bentside spinet, 1756 Kirckman, 1785 Antunes, and 1797 Gregori harpsichords. Over 50 historic pianos dating from 1777 to 1870: 1779 Hancock spinet-shaped grand; Broadwood: 5 grands, 1792-1850; 4 squares, 1795-1820; upright, 1870; Clementi: 4 grands, 1800-1822; 3 uprights, 1804-1825; Erard: 1801, 1866 grands; 1860 upright; 1820, 1826 Graf grands; 9 18th-c. squares: 1777 Beyer; 1780 & 1784 Ganer; 1780 Longman, Lukey and Co.; 1789 Whitby; 1792 Erard & Frere; 1793 Bayes & Co., ca. 1795 Longman & Broderip; and 1800 Walter u. Sohn. Many instruments are restored to playing condition and used in concerts and for recordings.
History: Richard Burnet began collecting keyboard instruments in the early 1960s; his principal interest was and is pianos. From 1969 to 1980 in partnership with harpsichord maker and piano restorer Derek Adlam, restoring antique keyboard instruments and building copies of harpsichords and early pianos. In 1971 he purchased the fine Georgian, brick manor house Finchcocks, built in 1725, and moved collection and business there. House and collection first opened to the public in 1977. In the winter months when the house is closed to the general public, the collection is visited by scholars, craftsmen and musicians, and the instruments are loaned for performances and recordings.
Services: guided tours; concerts and recordings; courses; October Finchcocks Fair; light lunches, teas and refreshments; gift and book shop.
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Recordings: over 40 titles in the Finchcocks Series on Amon Ra/Saydisk label. Instruments also recorded on Decca, Telefunken, Archiv, and other labels.
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Municipal Museum: musical instruments incorporated within a general collection.
Tel: (0141) 357-3929
Primary responsibility: Keeper, Department of Archaeology, Ethnography and History.
Open: 10-17 M-Sa, 14-17 Su.
Collection: about 371 instruments. Europe, ca. 83 art music instruments, ca. 65folk, and instruments of European types made on other continents: 2 Africa, ca. 75 Asia, ca. 86 America, ca. 10 Australia and Oceania; ca. 50 music mss. and miscellaneous acquisitions since 1945. Most ethnographic instruments are from the Glen Collection, Edinburgh. The Kelvingrove organ by Lewis & Co. was installed in the museum's Centre Hall, and restored in 1987-88. It is used frequently for recitals.
History: The bulk of the collection was formed by two purchases. The Glen Collection, was acquired in 1942.
It is but part of that assembled by the Edinburgh instrument making family, begun by Thomas M. Glen (1804-1873), and contains about 310 instruments including the Rippert flute, Paris, ca. 1710, a vox humana by Thomas Collier, London, d. 1785, 3-key oboe by John Just Schuchart, London, d. 1759; clarinette d'amour by J.B. Cramer, London, d. 1858. The Farmer Collection contains about 50 ethnographic instruments assembled by ethnomusicologist, member of the Royal Artillery Band and theater music director Henry George Farmer (1882-1965).
A number of the instruments are on loan to the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments [see above].
Services: permanent exhibition, tours, organ recitals, photography.
Publications:
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University museum including musical instruments.
Tel: (0141) 330-4221; Fax: (0141) 330-3617.
Governing organization: University of Glasgow.
Primary responsibility: Assistant Keeper, Musical Instruments.
Open: 9.30-17 M-F, 9.30-13 Sa. Closed some bank holidays.
Collections: The Bernard Hague Collection: 72 wind instruments: 4 flageolets; 1 double flageolet; 26 flutes (including Gerock, Goulding, Astor, E.G. Williams, Siccama model, Clinton Equisonant); 8 oboes (including Astor, Cahusac, Gerock, Milhouse); oboe d'amore, cor angalais (Morton); baritone oboe (Piatet) 10 clarinets (including Collier & Miller, Baumann, Wolf, Prowse, Key); tenoroon; 5 bassoons; trompe (Thibouville-Lamy); single-coil bugle (Couesnon); 3-valve trumpet (Cazzani and Rampone); 2-valve trumpet in F (Köhler); 2 cornets (Lewis & Tregear, Pask); alto valve trombone (Courtois); ballad horn (Distin, perhaps earliest surviving); cornophone in F and Eflat (Besson); bass (Made in Austria for Chappell); ophicleide; keyed bugle (Smith, Wolverhampton); buglet (Keat); serpent.
University collection: over 100 instruments, mainly ethnographic, including 15 African, 16 Asian, 6 the Americas, 58 Australia and Oceania, and 1 European art instrument.
History: The ethnographic instruments are part of general collections. Bernard Hague (1893-1960), University Chair of Electrical Engineering, bequeathed his collection to the University.
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Trust body incorporating musical museum.
Tel: (0141) 353-0220; Fax: (0141) 353-1570.
Governing organization: the Piping Trust (est. 1992).
Primary responsibility: Director.
Open: 9-21 M-F, 9-12 Sa.
Collections: display of bagpipe and other piping artefacts, housing much material on loan from the National Museums of Scotland.
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Municipal museum: musical instruments incorporated within a general collection.
Tel: (01452) 26467.
Governing organization: Gloucester City Council
Open: 10-17 M-Sa including bank holidays.
Collection: about 40 instruments, brass, woodwind and mechanical mainly with some percussion and string, including oboe by William Howe, London, and a clarinet by Jouve, Paris, both early 19th c.; and part of a flute by Stanesby Jr., d. 1754. The most interesting group of instruments are those purchased in 1798 by the local squire who raised that same year the Frampton Volunteers to defend the immediate area of eight miles radius. The instruments include 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, all by Goulding, London; 2 french horns by George Henry Rodenbostel, London, and a bass drum and drumsticks.
History: Gloucester Folk Museum (formerly known as Bishop Hooper's Lodgings) opened to the public in 1935. In 1979 it expanded into the Regimental Museum building. The collection includes objects documenting Gloucestershire social history, folklore, crafts and industries.
Services: permanent exhibition, tours, and 19th-c. style classes on local history presented.
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Tel: (01323) 844-224.
Governing organization: Sussex Archaeological Society.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: 11-17.30, 25 Mar.-31 Oct.; 11-16 Su in Nov., Feb., Mar.
Collection: about 257 instruments including 64 miniatures; 178 from Europe; 17 Africa; 40 Asia; 12 the Americas; 5 Australia and Oceania; 5 the Middle East; and 66 musical accessories.
History: Alice Schulmann-Frank has been building her collection since the 1950s. It was first shown to the public at Michelham Priory in 1964 where it resides on long term loan.
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Municipal museum: musical instruments incorporated in a general collection.
Tel: (01422) 358-087; Fax: (01422) 349-310
Governing organization: Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, Leisure Services Department
Primary responsibility: Assistant Director for Museum & Arts; Museums Officer, Shibden; Keeper of Art.
Open: Shibden Hall: 10-17 M-Sa, 12-17 Su, Mar.-Nov; 14-17 Feb. Bankfield Museum: 10-17 Tu-Sa; 13-17 Su.
Collections: Services: performances.
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Private keyboard collection in a National Trust property.
Tel: (01483)222-787.
Governing organization: Cobbe Foundation; National Trust.
Primary responsibility: Mr. Cobbe.
Open: Tu-Th
Collection: of primarily keyboard instruments includes: harpsichords by: Ruckers; virginals by John Player, London, 1644; pianos by Nanette Stein, Vienna,; Pleyel, Paris, 1846; quadruple-strung Graf, Vienna.
History: The collection was begun in 1968. The collector has aimed to assemble keyboard instruments of the kinds that each of the great composers would have used. The keyboard collection is displayed in the domestic setting of Hatchlands.
Hatchlands, designed by Stiff Leadbetter, decorated by the young Robert Adam was built for Admiral Boscawen; it was given to the National Trust in 1945.
Services: exhibition of keyboard instruments in domestic settings; tours and demonstrations; series of concerts begun in 1988 provides the funds for restoring the keyboards. The evening entertainment includes dinner and a demonstration of the instruments by Mr. Cobbe.
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Independent museum: musical instruments incorporated into a general collection.
Tel: (01992) 582-686
Primary responsibility: Senior curator.
Open: 10-17 Tu-Sa
Collection: general collection including barrel organs, miniature organs, pitch pipe acquired from various pre-war donors.
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Art museum: musical instruments incorporated into a general collection.
Tel: (01273) 779-410.
Primary responsibility: curator.
Open: 10-17 Tu-F, 10-16.30 Sa, 14-17 Su. Closed Mondays.
Collection: about 25 musical instruments including: a dital harp, ca. 1820; kit by Tilley, London, 1775; 3 mandolins incl. one by Michele Marata, Naples, 19th c.; small street piano organ; banjo piano by Pasquale & Co., Clerkenwell, London, ca. 1900; accordion, ca. 1850.
History: The museum was established in 1927.
Services: permanent and temporary exhibitions, guided tours, lectures, photographs and slides; library including music, archival material and some recordings.
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Municipal museum: musical instruments incorporated into a general collection.
Tel: (01484) 530-591, and 541-455.
Governing organization: Kirklees Metropolitan Council, Cultural Services, which also has jurisdiction over the Bagshaw Museum, Bately, West Yorks., WF17 0RS
Primary responsibility: Community curator; senior curator.
Open: 10-17 M-Sa, 12-17 Su; 12-17 M-Su Nov.-Feb.
Collection: some 75 European musical instruments in a general collection save keyboards. Most are 19th c., including some made in Huddersfield, and most collected in the Huddersfield area, from the museum's founding in 1922 to date, although most instruments collected pre WW II.
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Municipal museum: musical instruments incorporated in a general collection.
Tel: (01473) 213-761; Fax: (01473) 262-522.
Governing organization: Ipswich Borough Council, Leisure Services.
Primary responsibility: Keeper of human history.
Open: 10-17 M-Sa, 15-17 Su.
Collection: about 100 instruments, the ethnographic collection containing 37 African, 2 The Americas, 6 Oceanian, 10 Asian, 1 Middle East, 2 of unknown orgins; 37 European wind, string, percussion and keyboard and 7 sound-reproducing instruments. Noteworthy examples are: upright piano by William Stoddard, London, ca. 1820; piano by Richard Owen, London, ca. 1825; piano by Braodwood, London, ca. 1835; a bell from Rushbrook Hall, 15th or 16th c.; violin by R.J. Turner, Ipswich, ca. 1900; and a serpent, Ipswich, 19th c.
History: The museum was founded in 1846 and includes the Muir Collection of East African instruments and the Partridge Collection of Nigerian instruments. Most of the ethnograpic instruments were acquired with general ethnographic donations. The Western instruments were acquired because of their relevance to local domestic and social history, including some from church and chapel bands.
Services: some instruments on permanent display; general collection tours; occasional concerts; photos and slides to order.
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Municipal museum with musical instruments collection.
Tel: (01274) 758-230; Fax: (01535) 610-535.
Governing organization: Bradford Metropolitan Council.
Primary responsibility: Keeper of Ethnography and Musical Instruments.
Open: 10-18 April through Sept.; 10-17 Oct.-Mar. Closed all Mondays save bank holidays; closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and Good Friday.
Collection: about 150 instruments, including 107 European art music examples; instruments; about 22 folk; 19 Oceanian, and 2 North American. The collection is strongest in woodwind and brass, including a 1-key ivory flute by Caleb Gedney (1692-1754), London; fife by Thomas Stanesby Jr., London, mid-18th c.; 5-key clarinet by John Hale (1784-1804), London; double-slide contrabass trombone, patented by John Midgley, John Sugden and William Clapham, made by Besson & Co., London.
History: The instruments have been acquired locally and document area history.
Services: permanent and temporary exhibitions, guided tours, educational services.
Publications:
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Open: by appointment only, in the evening or on weekends, to those with a serious purpose. To request an appointment, contact the Keeper of Musical Instruments, Horniman Museum and Library, London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ.
Tel: (0181) 699-1872 / 2339 / 4911
Collection: about 25 18th- and early 19th-c. instruments, including among the woodwind: a treble recorder by Oberlender; flutes by Stanesby Jr., and Hallet. Strings include a division viol by Barak Norman; violas d'amore; viola pomposa (?); violetta inglese; cither viol ("none in original condition). Three late-18th c. violins and a viola, "probably in original condition". A square piano by Pohlman; and an incomplete serpent Forveille.
History: The instruments were acquired between 1955 and 1965.
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Tel: (01768) 773-263.
Governing organization: The Fitz Park Trust.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: 10-12, 13-16 daily except Sa, Easter to 31 Oct., and winter weekends.
Collection: 4 sets of musical stones, including a five-octave rock harmonicon by Richardson, part of his Rock, Bell and Steel band, 1827-1840; the Crosthwaites Musical Stones: a set of 16 of Spotted Schist from Skiddaws, Sinen Gill, the first 6 found in 1785; the Abrahams Brothers musical stones, built from 1886-1898; the Elterwater set; and 3 single instruments: an aeolian harp, an Islamic stringed instrument, and a flute.
History: The museum is housed in a dry-stone building built in 1897 expressly for the purpose. The Richardson rock harmonicon was performed on in public concerts between 1840 and 1862.
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County museum: musical instruments incorporated into a social history collection.
Primary responsibility: Curator
Open: 14-17 weekdays, closed Sa, Su.
Collection: about 100 instruments, chiefly English, some Continental and one American. The collection comprises mechanical, percussion, string and wind instruments.
History: The museum was founded at the beginning of the 20th c., and moved to the Hartlebury Castle in 1966. The instruments were largely the colleciton of Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Tickenhill Palace, Bewdley, and given to the museum in 1964.
Services: tours.
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District museum including a collection of musical instruments.
Tel: (01563) 26401 / 22702.
Governing organization: Kilmarnock & Loudoun District Museums, Dick Institute.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: 12-17 daily; guided tours every half hour. Closed 25, 26 Dec, 1, 2 Jan.
Collection: about 100 instruments.
Plucked strings: 3 lutes, both now 6-string lute guitars, one originally prob. Wendelinus Tieffenbrucker, Padova, 16th to 19th c.; one originally by Marx Unverdorben, Venice 16th c.; one with modified neck and pegbox labelled Leonsard Prodhon, late 17th c.; theorboed-lute-like instrument Italy, 19th c., labelled Wendelinus Tieffenbrucker, back and parts of neck 1562; angelica (once a chitarrone), 16th - 18th c. labelled Caesar Aldana 1567, prob. 1625-50; colascione, Italy, 17th c.; 2 chittaras battente, Magno Stregher, Venice, 1621, Matteo Sellas, Venice 1638. 9 mandoras, including: anon., ?Italy, early 17th c.; Italy, early 18th c. by Michel Angelo Bergonzi, Cremona, 1755 with original fitted case; early 18th c. by Giovanni Giuseppe Fontanelli, Bologna, labelled 1726; Ebar Enrico, Italy, 1655; North Italy, mid-18th c. labelled Petrus Merighi, Parma, 1767; by Fedele Barnia Venezia, 1767. tenor mandola, possibly by Vinacchia family, Italy, late 18th c.; cittern, Hamburg, ca. 1700. 3 small harps: T. Egan, Dublin, 1821, anon, France, ca. 1815, dital harp Edward Light,
London, ca. 1820. 3 dulcimers: 1 Italy, 18th c., 1 prob. Venice, early 19th c.; 4 English guitars: anon, France, ca. 1750, W. Raucher, London, 1762, F. Hintz, London, 1750-75, Remerus Liessum, London, 1758; keyed English guitar: W. Raucher, London, 1762; bass English guitar, ca. 1780. Epinette des vosges, France, late 18th c.; lyre guitar, Clementi & Co., London, ca. 1800. Hurdy gurdy, 18th c.; 2 lyras, Greece, 19th c.; krar, probably Ethopia, 19th c.; bow harp, the Sudan, 19th c. Bowed strings: 3 kits, England, 18th c.; 7 pochettes: Georg Worle, Augsburg, 1673; Thomas Edlinger, Agusburg, 1681; Johannes Bagany, Austria, labelled 1735; duMesnil, Paris, 1662; 3 anon.: Scandinavia, 18th c., Germany, 18th c., 19th c. 2 violins: Honor Derazey, Mirecourt, 19th c., Germany, 19th c. labelled Sanctus Seraphin; 2 violas d'amore: Mathias Klotz, Antonno Zafir, 1716; violas da gamba: treble, Germany, 18th c,; 2 tenors, labelled Johannes Hasert, Eisenach, 1735, by Henry Smith, London, 1623, converted to a viola. Winds: ivory sopranino recorder, England,
early 18th c.; 2 ivory alto recorders, England, ca. 1730, ivory alto recorder, France, ca. 1735; double flageolet; ivory piccolo, England, ca. 1800, ivory flute, England, ca. 1750, flute d'accord, L.Walch, London, 1800-50; oboe, Lenglet, France, early 18th c.; 2 cor anglais: Italy, late 18th c., Fornari, Venice, late 18th c.; tenor cornett, Italy, 17th c.; 2 serpents: anon., England, ca. 1800, and Thomas Prowse, London, ca. 1820. Keyboards: 4 ottavini: 3 Italy, 17th c., one inscr. Filippus Racceris, Mantua, 1535; one from Venice or Rome, early 18th c.; small virginals, Italy 17th c.; clavichord, Italy 17th c.; mechanical spinet in lacquered casket, Flanders, 17th c.; folding harpsichord, France, early 18th c.; 3 positiv organs including: Florence, early 17th c., Germany, 17th c.; portativ organ, France, early 16th c. Percussion: side drum, 17th c., bass drum, late 17th c. both The Netherlands, 2 conical drums, Uganda, 19th c.
History: Collection formed by Charles van Raalte of Brownsea Island, Dorset, England beginning 1890. His widow sold part of the collection in 1927, some to Hereward Irenius Brackenbury of Berwick-on-Tweed (now at the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments), and the remainder taken to Dean Castle by their daughter Margherita (m. Lord Howard de Walden in 1912). In 1975 Dean Castle and its collections including the van Raalte Collection was donated to the Kilmarnock & Louden District Council by the 9th Lord Howard de Walden.
Services: permanent exhibition, guided tours, postcards, slides and photographs.
Publications: Handlist of the collection as well as plans and technical drawings of some of the instruments.
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Tel: (01132) 755-821
Governing organization: Leeds City Council
Primary responsibility: Curator, and curator of collections.
Open: 10-18 M-Sa, 14-18 Su. Closes 1 hour earlier in winter; closed 25, 26 Dec.
Collection: about 150 European instruments, including 4 flageolets: by D'Almaine, Metzler and 2 by Bainbridge; 4 piccolos: a 2-key by James Wood & Son, London, ca. 1825, a 3-key, a 6-key by Rudall Carte & Co., London, and a Pratten system by Boosey & Co., London; 20 transverse flutes from the late 18th to late 19th c. by various makers including: 3 by William Henry Potter, London, and by Goulding & Co., Metzler, Metalf, Clementi & Co., Fentum, Bainbridge, Rudall Carte & Co., Wallis, 3 by Boosey & Co. all of London, and 1 by Moore of Huddersfield, ca. 1835; 3 clarinets: 1 each by Goulding & Co, Key and Bilton all of London, and Buffet Crampon et Cie, Paris; 2 oboes and 2 boxes of reeds; a tenoroon by Buffet, Crampon et Cie, Paris; 7 19th-c. bassoons: 2 by Milhouse (one with a top joint by G Astor & Co., 1 each by Bilton, Charles Pace and A Morton & Sons all of London, one by Buffet Crampon et Cie, Paris, and 3 by Heckel, Biebrich, one of which is a contrabassoon; 2 London-made cornets, by
Henry Potter, and Courtois of London, and 2 by Douglas and Son, Glasgow; a post horn by Koehler & Son; a bass horn, early 19th c.; 2 harps; a harp-lute by Light, London, ca. 1820; a guitar; 2 mandolins; 6 zithers; an aeolian harp; a violin by J. Topham of Scarborough, formerly of Leeds; a Stroh violin; a concertina; a grand piano by Hopkinson, London, ca. 1865; 6 square by Zumpe, 1769; 2 by John Broadwood, 1793, 1805; Clementi, 1812, all of London; and by M.F. Rachals & Co., Hamburg, 1865; and an unknown maker, ca. 1870; an upright piano, ca. 1820; a barrel organ; 7 music boxes; 16 phonographs
History: Period rooms are the settings for most of the museum's objects, installed in the former Great Gate House of Kirkstall Abbey, 1152-1182. Among the trades represented in street scenes is the ca. 1900 workshop of Mark Dearlove, a stringed-instrument maker whose family was in business from the 19th c. until 1950. The musical instruments collection is a result of many individual donations as well as the shop wares of the Dearloves.
Services: permanent and temporary exhibitions, recordings, archives, iconography, recordings and tapes.
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Municipal museum containing ethnographic instruments within a general collection.
Tel: (01132) 478-275 / 438-311; Fax: (01132) 426-761.
Governing organization: Leeds City Council.
Primary responsibility: Assistant Curator of Ethnography
Open: 9.30-17.30 Tu-F, 9.30-16 Sa; closed Su, M, public holidays.
Collection: approximately 135 percussion, wind and stringed instruments including 82 African, 10 from the Americas, 27 Asian, 3 European, 10 Oceania, 3 unknown instruments.
History: The museum was founded in 1821 by the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society; it was transferred to the Leeds City Corporation (now the City Council) in 1921. The collecting has been haphazard; much was destroyed during WW II; most of the collection has been acquired since then.
Services: permanent and temporary exhibitions, recordings, archives, iconography, recordings and tapes.
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University collection of musical instruments.
Tel: (01162) 522-781.
Governing organization: University of Leicester Senate.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: by appointment with the curator.
Collection: about 70 woodwind, brass and keyboard instruments from the 18th through the 20th c., namely: History: The collection and its archives was loaned to the University by the Moore family in 1981. It has been augmented with additions from the Stephen J. Weston Collection (the Moore Collection's present curator), as well as various donations to the university.
Services: guided tours
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Private historical society.
Tel: (01273) 474 610.
Governing organization: Sussex Archaeological Society.
Primary responsibility: Curator of Collections.
Open: 10-5 M-Sa; 2-5 Su.
Collection: 23 instruments, most relating to church music, along with a collection of printed and manuscript books of church music. Instruments include a barrel organ; 5 pitch pipes; violoncello and bow both by W. Martin; violin by James Nye; 2 bassoons: by William Milhouse, and Metzler; 3 percussion, 2 bells; 9 other winds.
History: The collection was formed principally by Canon K.H. MacDermott to document church music in Sussex before the introduction of organs. The music books are kept in the Society's library at Barbican House.
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Private museum.
Tel: (01579) 43108 / 42925
Open: 11-17 daily, Good Friday through 31 October
Collection: 12 mechanical music machines, including Fritz Wrede Fair Organ, Hanover, 1910; Dutch street organ, Belgian cafe organs, 1930s, player pianos with rolls reproducing the playing of great keyboard performers and composers; orchestrion by Welte, Black Forest, 1904 used in Hillcrest House, Alnwick, Northumbria; and the theatre pipe organ, Wurlitzer, 1929 from the Regent Theatre, Brighton.
Services: guided tours (4 a day) with Paul Corin including a 15-minute performance on the Wurlitzer theatre organ.
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County museum with a musical instruments collection.
Tel: (0151) 207-0001; Fax: (0151) 207-3759.
Governing organization: National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside.
Primary responsibility: Curator of Costume and Textiles.
Open: 10-17 M-Sa, 14-17 Su. The collection is currently in storage; access by appointment only.
Collection: some 120 instruments, about 85 of which are significant and in good condition. These include: woodwind, brass, percussion stringed keyboard, mechanical and ethnographic instruments. Noteworthy instruments include: Keyboards: chamber organ, John Snetzler, 1767; positive organ, Nicholas Wnadersheid, Nürnberg, 1644; church organ, Robert Hope-Jones, Birkenhead, 1897; clavichord, Christian Gottlob Hubert, Anspach, 1783; organised piano, Johann Samuel Kuhlewein, Eisleben, 1798; 2 harpsichords by Burkat Shudi & John Boradwood, London, 1774, Jacob Kirckman, London, 1767; virginals attr. to Poggi, Venice, ca. 1615; 2 spinets by John Kilshaw, Manchester, ca. 1740, Gaveau, Paris, 1926; octave spinet, Chickering & Co., Boston, 1910; 2 grand pianos, Stein type, Germany or Vienna, ca. 1800, John Broadwood, London, ca. 1840; 3 square pianos by Shrader & Hartz, London, ca. 1792, John Broadwood, London, ca. 1870, another late 19th c.; miniature piano, Germany or Vienna, ca. 1830; 7 upright pianos. 8 free-reed instruments: 4
accordions, melophone, A. Brown, Paris, ca. 1840; 3 harmoniums. 20 mechanical instruments, including: 3 barrel organs: for church T.C. Bates, London, ca. 1835 with three barrels each with 10 hymn tunes, small barrel organ by Philips, London, ca. 1850, anonymous, Germany, sold by R.J. Ward & Sons, Liverpool, ca. 1860; 2 polyphons: table and upright types, both by Polyphonmusikwerke, Leipzig, ca. 1895; 2 pianolas, Melville Clark, Chicago, NY, and London, and George Steck for Aeolian Co., ca. 1930; 13 music boxes. 18 woodwinds, including: 5 double flageolets; piccolo; 2 fifes, Henry Potter, London, and Ward and Sons, Liverpool, both mid-19th c.; 3 clarinets, Metzler, Jordan, and Cleminti & Co., all 19th c.; cor anglais by Carl Grundmann, Dresden, 1791; 2 bassoons; 2 serpents, one by John Fusedale, Westminster, ca. 1800. 9 brass instruments, including key bugle, Charles Pace, Westminster, ca. 1830; 2 ophicleides, by R.J. Ward, Liverpool, 1848, Pollard, Bradford, ca. 1850. 11 plucked strings including dital harp by Edward Light, London, ca.
1818; Apollo lyre, Clementi, London, ca. 1810; guitar, Johann Frederick Merchel, Stuttgart, 1801; mandolin, Carlo Albertini Figlioni, Milano, ca. 1800, mandora, Italy, ca. 1750; 2 harps by Erard, London, ca. 1805, 1830. 7 bowed strings and 8 bows, including: Kit violin and bow, John Dodd, ca. 1750; Viola d'amore converted to quinton, Johann Ulrich Eberle, Prague, 1758; cither viol, Thomas Perry and Wm. Wilkinson, Dublin, 1792; violin, Rushworth & Dreaper, Liverpool, 1928; violoncello, James and Henry Banks, Liverpool, ca. 1820; double bass, Edward Stansfield, Liverpool, 1927. 18 Eruopean and non-European ethnographic instruments, including 2 bagpipe sets, one Lowlands, 19th c.; hurdy gurdy by Tixier, Jenzat, France, ca. 1850; 4 zither / autoharps; Stroviol, England, ca. 1925; crwth, George Hemmings, Liverpool, 1959; 3 balalaikas, 2 guslis, etc.
History: The museum was founded in 1851. The original collection of instruments was donated tothe museum in 1867 by the local antiquarian Joseph Mayer, but lost in May 1941 when the museum received a direct hit by an incendiary bomb. The present collection was formed largely by donation since then, with the additional purchase of the Rushworth and Dreaper Collection of Musical Instruments in 1967. The Rushworth and Dreaper Collection was formed by the Liverpool music house and organ builder during the 1920s and 1930s. The collection continues to be added to intermittently.
Services: the collection may be examined and photographed by prior appointment.
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National museum: musical instruments included throughout various departments.
Tel: (011) 636-1555.
Governing organization: Board of Trustees, the British Museum.
Primary responsibility: [keepers of the various departments, eg.,
Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities].
Open: 10-17 M-Sa; 14.30-18 Su.: for the Christmas period, Good Friday, 1 May.
Collection: thousands of instruments.
History: The museum was founded 1753 to show the works of man from prehistoric times to the present. Its holdings of musical instruments are the largest in the United Kingdom.
Services: permanent and temporary exhibitions, guided tours, photographs, slides, publications on sale, library archives, iconographic, photographic and cinematographic materials.
Publications: Museum of Mankind (the Department of Ethnography, British Museum), 6 Burlington Gardens, London W1X 2EX.
National museum's Department of Ethnography which is so large that it has become an adjunct sub-museum.
Tel: (0171) 323-8043; Fax: (0171)323-8013.
Governing organization: Board of Trustees, the British Museum.
Primary responsibility: [curator(s) of the various geographical areas]
Open: 10-17 M-Sa, 14.30-18 Su.
Note: few instruments are on public display; most are stored in the museum's repository in Shoreditch, East London, where appointments are required. For information and appointments contact: Student's Room, 13-16.45 M-F.
Tel: (0171)323-8041 / 323-8044.
Collection: some 3000 instruments of all types catalogued with other objects from the same geographical area and culture. The museum owns the great and earliest known gamelan [orchestra] collected by Sir Stamford Raffles and acquired by the museum in 1859.
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National Trust property with specialized collection of musical instruments.
Tel: (011) 435-3471. Regional office, High Wycombe, Bucks., fax: (0494)463-310.
Governing organization: National Trust
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: 11-18 (last admission 17) Sa-W, April to end of Oct; 14-18 Sa-Su only in March. Closed Good Friday.
Collection: 19 keyboard instruments: 8 harpsichords (South German or Italian, 16th c.; Ioannes Ruckers, Antwerp, 1612; London-made: Burkat Shudi, 1761; Jacob Kirckman, 1752; do. 1762; Burkat Shudi & John Broadwood, 1770; Jacob & Abraham Kirckman, 1777; Longman & Broderip, [Culliford], 1783); 3 virginals (inscribed Marcus Siculus, Italian, 16th or 17th c.; Italian, 17th c.; Robert Hatley, London, 1664); 2 spinets( England, 1742; John Hancock, late 18th c.); 2 grand pianos (Americus Backers, London, ca. 1770; John Broadwood, 1805); 1 square piano Christopher Ganer, London, fl. 1795); 2 clavichords (Italian or German, 17th c.; Dolmetsch, 1925).
History: Fenton House probably built in 1693, with a walled garden, remained in the Fenton family until 1936 when it was sold to Col. Lord Binning. In 1952 his widow Lady Binning bequeathed it and a fine collection of furniture and china to the National Trust. Meanwhile Major George Henry Benton Fletcher, fl. 1889-1944 assembled his keyboard and furniture collection, installed it in Old Devonshire House, Bloomsbury, and in 1934 gave the whole to the National Trust, so that fine historic keyboards in working order would be available to early music students. Fortunately Fenton's Collection, except for most of the original stands, was moved to the country, for in 1941 Old Devonshire House was destroyed. After the war the collection was moved to another Trust House in Chelsea until its ultimate disposition in Fenton House in 1952.
Services: Harpsichord students by appointment permitted to play collection. Permanent exhibition, concerts.
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Tel: (0181) 699-1872 / Taped message: 699-2339 / Education: 699-4911; Fax: (0181) 291-5506.
Governing organization: Horniman Public Museum and Public Park Trust.
Primary responsibility: Department of Musical Instruments: Keeper and Deputy Keeper of Musical Instruments.
Open: 10.30-17.30 M-Sa, 14-17.30 Su. Closed 24, 25, 26 Dec.
Library: same as museum, except closed on M and public holidays.
Collection: about 6000 instruments of all types, from all parts of the world, all performing traditions and all periods of history.
History: The collection was created and built up from about the 1860s. The museum was first open to the public in the late 1880s and then given to the people of London together with its specially designed building in 1901. In 1990, the Inner London Education Authority was dissoloved and the Horniman Museum became an independent institution funded by the Department of National Heritage. Musical instruments from many parts of the world were among the original Horniman collection. Today, five major collections are subsumed into the general collection of the Musical Instrument Department. They are:-
Services: permanent and temporary exhibitions, guided tours and performance workshops (for information, contact the Education Department), two annual series of concerts in Spring and Autumn, pubic lectures, photographs and slides to order.
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Municipal museum incorporating musical instruments into general collections.
Tel: (0171) 600-3699; Fax: (0171) 600-1058
Governing organization: Board of Governors, the Museum of London.
Primary responsibility: Assistant Curators of Early London History: Divisions of Prehistoric and Roman; Medieval; Tudor & Stuart Periods.
Curator of Later London History.
Open: 10-18 Tu-Sa; 14-18 Su.
An appointment is necessary to see objects not on exhibition.
Collections: about 80 instruments or fragments of instruments including in roughly chronological order: 4 bone flutes (part of archaeological collections); medieval excavated collection, largely fragmentary but including a complete 14th c. trumpet; tuning pegs; bone whistles, jew' harps, boswain's whistles; a virginals by Jacob White, London 1656; 2 trumpets by Augustine Dudley, London, 1651, 1666; trumpet by and trade card of William Bull, London, fl. 1666-1707; 7 jew's harps, 18th to 20th c.; double flageolet, Bainbridge, early 19th c.; 2 flutes: Gerock, Thomas Cahusac; harmonic trumpet, William Shaw, 1787 (on loan from the Royal Collections); pair of hunting horns with case, Smith, London, ca. 1740; lute, 17th c. body, head inscribed "F. Hintz"; violin, Duke, London, 1769; 2 dital harps, Edward Light, late 18th c.; 2 guitars: one by John Preston, late 18th c., the other anon., owned by Lady Hamilton; 2 harmoniums, late 19th c.; 4 barrel organs & street pianos, late 19th-early 20th c.; 7 upright pianos by such makers as Robert Wornum, William Rolfe, Collard
& Collard, Wolf and Figg, 1820s to early 20th c.; upright grand pianos by R. Jones, Golden Square, London, 1808, made for George IV & on loan from the Royal Collection; Broadwood / Mardon, 1820; 5 square pianos, late 18th c.
Also: mss. music book compiled by Anne Cromwell, cousin of the Protector, 1638; The Creation (music book), Joseph Haydn, given to Emma Hamilton, 1800; a small number of musical scores, illustrated broadside ballads, and song sheets from music halls and pleasure gardens.
History: Founded in 1975, the museum specializes in the 2000 years of London's history. Musical instruments are incorporated into the collections dedicated to the particular chronological history of the curatorial divisions ennumerated above.
Services: taped period music in some exhibitions; guided tours; recordings.
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Musical instruments collection in a conservatory of music.
Tel: (0141) 935-4561.
Primary responsibility: Luthier in residence.
Open: by appointment.
Collection: 250 stringed instruments, including 6 by Antonio Stradivari, 5 by Amati, 2 Guadagnini, 1 Gaspar viola.
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Musical instruments museum in a conservatory of music.
Tel: (01171) 591 4346; Fax: (01171) 589-7740
Governing organization: Royal College of Music Council.
Primary responsibility: Curator of Instruments.
Open: 14-16.30, W during term; parties and special visits by appointment. Closed Jan.
Collection: ca. 600 instruments, including: 500 European, ca. 1480-1980 (26 keyboards, 135 stringed, 286 wind, 7 idiophones, 1 membranophone, 1 automatic); 100 Asian and African (40 Far Eastern, 30 Indian, 9 African, 9 Near and Middle East). Also bows, mouthpieces, cases, mutes, etc. Music, tutors, books, catalogues, photographs, x-ray photographs, some iconographic and archival materials including the London Erard ledgers, and tape recordings.
Significant keyboard instruments include: clavicytherium, ?South Germany, ca. 1480; harpsichords by Alessandro Trasuntino, Venice, 1531; anonymous, ca. 1600, Ferdinand Weber, Dublin, ca. 1775, and J.A. Kirckman, London, 1773; virginals by Giovanni Celestini, Venice, 1593; spinets by Stephen Keene, John Hitchcock, London, ca. 1750, reputedly Handel's; (Haydn's) clavichord by Johann Bohak, ?Vienna. 1794, fortepianos by John Broadwood, London, 1799, Jacob Bertsche, Vienna, 1821. Organs include: table regal, ?Germany 1629; chamber organ previously in Winchester College, attributed to "Father" Smith, possibly 1702.
Important wind instruments include an 18th c. recorders by Jacob Denner in ivory, Nürnberg, J.W. Oberlender, Paul Villars, Paris; 18th c. flutes by Thomas Stanesby, Jr., London, I. Scherer, Paris, Grassi, Milan, Cahusac, London; 18th c. oboes by Naust, Strasbourg or Paris, Cahusac, London, Jakob Grundmann, Dresden; tenor oboe by Martin Lot, ca. 1780; cor anglais by Carl Golde, Dresden, ca. 1840, Johann Stehle, Vienna, ca. 1850, Genarro Bosa, Naples, ca. 1850; baritone oboe by G. Triébert, Paris, ca. 1825; early 19th c. bassoons by Goulding, Wood & Co., Cramer & Key, William Milhouse, 2 by Thomas Key, all London; contrabassophon by Alfred Morton, London, 1876; two-keyed clarinet by I, Scherer, Butzbach, ca.1750; 5 basset horns, 2 bass clarinets; musette, France, late 17th or early 18th c.; cornemuse, late 18th c.; stock-and-horn, Scotland; ivory cornet; ophimonocleide by Coeffet, France, 1825-40; trumpets by Philipp Schöller, Munich, 1753-82, Charles Kretzschmann, Strasbourg, ca. 1830, Shaw & Son, London, 1810-25;
slide trumpet by John Harris, London, early 18th c. later owned by Thomas Harper; 19th c. french horns by Charles Pace, Antoine Courtois, Paris, C. Zinzi & Co., Rome, ca. 1870, tenor trombones owned and played by Elgar and Holst.
Major stringed instruments include: 12 dancing-master kits (one attr. to Antonio Stradivari); violas by Henrico Catenari, Turin, 1661, Francesco Grancino, Milan, early 18th c.; 5 violas da gamba; baryton by Magnus Feldlen, Vienna, 1647; cittern by Gieronimo Campi, Brescia, ca. 1580; chitarrone by Magno Tieffenbrucker, Venice, 1608; 10 guitars, one from the 16th c.; 6 harps including examples of Welsh triple and French single-action instruments.
History: Instruments have been donated since the College was founded in 1883. Private collections incorporated within the Museum are in: 1884, 12 instruments (84 given originally given) from the Maharajah Sourindo Mohun Tagore (1840-1914); 159 instruments: 134 in 1894, 19 in 1900, from Sir George Donaldson (1845-1925); 1909, 3 instruments identifiable from King Edward VII (1841-1910), 1911, 12 instruments from Alfred James Hipkins (11826-1903); 1968, 113 wind instruments from E.A. Keane Ridley (1904- ), 1985, 74 instruments from Geoffrey E.W. Hartley (1906-1992).
In 1970 the collection was rehoused in a new air-conditioned facility, and restoration, conservation and documentation programs have been undertaken. Due to limited funding, the collection serves primarily as an academic resource for the College; consequently public access is limited. The collection is complemented by the College's Department of Portraits, Performance history, the British office of RIdIM and extensive library.
Services: guided tours for groups by appointment for a fee; photography, occasional concerts and lectures, College courses; occasional broadcasts, research access to library and archives.
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Tel: (011) 699-1872 / 699-2339 / 699-4911.
Collection: approximately 200 European and American orchestral and band instruments (with a concentation on brass instruments) dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including: alto clavicor by F. Pace, London; 6-valve trumpet, Adolphe Sax, Paris; 7-valve trombone, Lebrun, Brussels; contrabass double-slide trombone (the "King Kong"), Boosey & Co., London; contrabass double-slide trombone, Salvation Army, London, rotary-valve, copper baritone, Higham, Manchester; soprano cornophone, F. Besson, London. The collection contains examples of various types of valve mechanisms and compensating systems.
History: Beginning in 1962 all types of early instruments were collected. Acquisitions ceased during the 1970s and resumed in the 1980s when the collector concentrated on brass instruments.
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National museum with musical instruments incorporated within the collection at large.
Tel: (011) 480-6358; Fax: (0171) 481-2922.
Governing organization: Trustees of the Royal Armouries.
Primary responsibility: Master of the Armouries; for apointements: Keeper of Firearms.
Open: 9.30-18 M-Sa, Mar.-Oct.; 14-17.30 Su; 9.30-16 M-Sa Nov.-Feb.
Collection: about 32 instruments dating from the 17th through the 19th centures, mainly drums and trumpets including: 2 kettledrums captured at the Battle of Blenheim, 1704; 2 jingling johnnies; 6 silver trumpets made for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee; 9 trumpets by William Shaw, London, 1780-1815, 1 by Thomas Shaw, London.
History: The museum was founded as a national museum of arms and armour during the reign of Charles II.
Services: permanent exhibition, sales of photographs, library.
Publications: general guide available through the Shop Manager, Royal Armouries, HM Tower of London.
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Collection of Musical Instruments, Department of Furniture. Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2RL.
National museum with a collection of musical instruments.
Tel: (0171) 938-8279; Fax: (0171) 938-8341.
Governing organization: Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Primary responsibility: Keeper of Furniture and Interior Design; Keeper of Oriental Art.
Open: 10-17.40 M-Sa; 14-17 Su.
Collection: about 255 outstanding examples of Western art musical instruments dating from the 16th through the mid-nineteenth centuries in the Department of Furniture: including some 60 keyboards: harpsichords by Jerome of Bologna, Rome, 1521, Giovanni Antonio Baffo, Venice, 1574, Andreas Ruckers the Elder, Antwerp, 1631, Ioannes Ruckers, Antwerp, 1639, Vaudry, Paris, 1681, Thomas Hitchcock, London, ca. 1725, anon., England, ca. 1730 labelled Ioannes Ruckers, Antverpiae, 1634, Jacob and Abraham Kirckman, London, 1776, Shudi & Broadwood, London, 1783, Pascal Taskin, Paris, 1786; 2 spinets by Annibale dei Rossi, Milan, 1555, 1577, Marco Jadra, 1568, the "Queen Elizabeth's Virginals", Italy, 1570, John Player, London last quarter 17th c., Thomas Hitchcock, ca. 1740, John Crang, London, 1758, Baker Harris, London, 1770, Joseph Mahoon, London, 1771,; virginals: anon., Northern Europe, ca. 1600, Thomas White, London, 1642, John Loosemore, Exeter, 1655; claviorganum by Lodewyk Theewes, London, 1579; clavichords by Barthold Fritz,
Brunswick, 1751, one signed Peter Hicks, last quarter 18th c.; cabinet organ, South Germany, early 17th c.; chamber organs: "The Beckford" by John Crang, London, late 1760s, Daniel Prior, London, 1786; square pianos: Johann Christopher Zumpe, London, 1767, Johannes Pohlman, London, 1773, Christopher Ganer, London, 1780, Longman & Broderip, London, ca. 1795, John Broadwood, London, 1801, Florez, Madrid, ca. 1815; grand pianos: Georg Haschka, Vienna, ca. 1815-20, Tomas Tomkison, London, pre-1820, William Stodart, London, ca. 1820, Robert Wornum & Sons, London, ca. 1870, 2 by John Broadwood & Sons, ca. 1882, 1883; upright pianos: van der Does, Amsterdam, ca. 1820, a "euphonicon, England, ca. 1840, 2 by Collard & Collard, London, ca. 1840, ca. 1865;
Some 15 viols of various sizes including those by John Rose, London, ca. 1600, Henry Jay, London, 1667, Richard Meares, London, 1677, John Baker, Oxford, 1688, Frederick Hintz, London, 1760, Paul Hiltz, Nürnberg, 1639, possibly by Joachim Tielke, Hamburg, ca. 1700, and Martin Voigt, Hamburg, 1726;
5 violas d'amore, one by Jean Nicolas Lambert, Paris, 1772; 2 barytons: Joachim Tielke, 1686, Jacques Sainprae, Berlin, ca. 1720; 2 cither viols;
7 violin-family instruments: violin by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1699; a hardanger fiddle by K.E. Helland, Norway, 1872; 7 kits; a trumpet marine; 6 hurdy-gurdies; 16 lutes by such makers as Laux Maler, Bologna, early 16th c., Marx Unverdorben, Venice, mid-16th c., Matteo Sellas, Venice, 1637, Cristopher Choco, Venice, 17th c., Michael Rauche, London, 1762, J.H. Goldt, Hamburg, 1734, 2 by Matteo Buechenberg, Rome, 1614, 1619, Wendelin Tieffenbrucker, Padua, 1592; 4 mandoras, 6 mandolins, 2 bandurrias, a banjo, 8 citterns, 9 English guitars, 2 Portuguese guitars, 4 arch citterns, 2 round-back citterns; 15 guitars, including ones by Matteo Sellas, Venice, 1623, Joachim Tielke, Hamburg, 1693, José Pagés, Cadiz, 1798; 3 lyre guitars, 3 harp guitars, a harp-lute guitar, 3 harp lutes, a dital harp, 2 triple harps; 10 pedal harps by such makers as 2 by H. Nadermann, Paris, both after 1785, Georges Cousineau, Paris, late 18th c., Renault & Chatelain, Paris, ca. 1790, Wolter, Paris, late 18th c., François Dizi, London, 1813-31, S. &
P. Erard, London, 1858;
9 recorders of various sizes dating from the 16th through the early 19th c. by Bressan, London, ca. 1700, John Suchart, London, 1st half 18th c., J.M. Anciuti, Milan, 1740, Goulding & Co., London, ca. 1800; 6 flageolets; 9 flutes by P.J. Bressan, London, ca. 1710, Richard Potter, London, late 18th c., Cahusac, London, ca. 1800, Claude Laurent, Paris, 1815, Thomas Prowse, London, pre-1836, Rudall & Rose, London, pre-1750, 2 by Rudall Carte, London, 1871, ca. 1892; 4 oboes by Anciuti, Richard Potter, William Milhouse, London, early 19th c.; 2 tenor oboes by Thomas Stanesby, Jr., London, 1st half 18th c., Cahusac; a tenroon by R. de Rosa, Naples, ca. 1830, 2 bassoons and 2 alto fagottos; a 3 bagpipes, musette, cornemuse, Northumbrian small-pipe; 2 cornetts; one serpent by Gerock & Wolf, London, ca. 1831; french horn by Marcel-Auguste Raoux, Paris, ca. 1826, a 19th c. slide trumpet, a cornet by Charles Pace, London, ca. 1730, and a soprano trombone by Allen & Pace, Birmingham, ca. 1870.
The Oriental Department has in a reserve collection approximately 160 musical instruments from India, formerly in the India Museum Collection.
History: The museum was founded in 1857. The distinguished musicologist and organologist Carl Engel donated his collection in the 1870s. The acquisition policy for musical instruments since then has concentrated on those that are excellently constructed of wood and finely decorated. In 1958 the non-Western instruments including oriental and folk instruments, mostly from North Africa, the Near and Far East, and some European folk instruments, were transferred to the Horniman Museum. Most were acquired in the 19th c. and some are described by Carl Engel in his 1874 catalogue. In 1963 the V & A created new gallery for musical instruments was opened and installed many of its Western instruments there on permanent exhibition. Other instruments, particularly keyboards are displayed in decorative arts galleries with period furnishings, including the Norfolk House Music Room re-erected in the museum, as well as in other buildings under the administration of the V & A, such as Ham House and Osterly Park House.
Services: permanent exhibitions and occasional tours.
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Private museum incorporating musical instruments into a general collection.
Tel: (0171) 935-0687.
Governing organization: Wallace Collection Board of Trustees.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: 10-17 M-Sa, 14-17 Su.
Collection: 4 instruments: Oliphant; Natural trumpet inscribed: "Iohann Wilhelm Haas in Nürnberg", probably by Ernst Johann Conrad Haas, Nürnberg, 2nd half 18th c.
Small trumpet or bugle inscribed: "Mach Iohann Wilhelm Haas in Nürnber[g]", probably by Ernst Johann Conrad Haas. Miniature horn by Ernst Johann Conrad Haas, Nürnberg, 2nd half 18th c.
History: The museum was founded in 1897. Its collections include important paintings, many of which depict musical subjects.
Services: guided tour twice weekly: 13-14 Tu, Thu.
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General art and archaeological museum incorporating musical instruments within the general collection.
Tel: (01622) 754-497.
Governing organization: Maidstone Borough Council.
Primary responsibility: Museums and Heritage Officer;
Keeper of Ethnology; Keeper of Fine and Applied Art.
Open: 9-17.30 M-Sa; closed Su and bank holidays.
Collection: about 85 instruments.
8 keyboards including a clavichord by Traeri, Italy, 1726 said to have belonged to Handel; a Broadwood grand piano, London, ca. 1855; 4 square pianos: 3 by Broadwood, 1806, ca. 1840, ca. 1840, and one by George Dettmer & Son, London, early 19th c.; an upright piano by Coventry and Hollier. London early 19th c., and a portative organ by R. Snell, London. 4 free reed instruments: 2 harmoniums, 1 by Alexandre et Fils, Paris; an orchestral organ by Dominion, Ontario, Canada, and an accordion.
12 stringed instruments including: 4 violins, one and a violoncello used in the 19th c. in the Trottiscliffe Church, Kent; another 'cello attr. to John Betts, London, early 19th c., a 17th c. viola da gamba; 2 19th-c. guitars.
35 woodwind instruments including a 3-hole bone pipe, possibly from the Middle Ages, a bone double whistle, ? 16th c., 3 pitchpipes used in Kent; a fife by Goulding & Co., 2 19th-c. piccolos, 14 flutes, including ones by G. Gerock, W.H. Potter, Dollard of Dublin, Carolo T. Giorgio's flauto giorgio, 1896; 2 flageolets, early 19th c.; 6 clarinets, including by Milhouse, J. Wood, R.W. Keith, Goulding & Co., all of London and early 19th c., and one by E. Lamb, Sherbourne, Dorset, ca. 1800.
4 jew's harps: an Anglo-Saxon bronze one excavated at Sarre, Kent; 2 medieval bronze found at Otford, Kent and East Sutton, Kent; and one of wrought iron found at Otford.
15 brass winds: 2 long silver trumpets used at Maidstone Assizes 1828, a trumpet by Couesnon et Cie, Paris, 2 cornets, a halbmond bugle horn by I. Gabler, Berlin, early 19th c., a military bugle by Adolphe Sax, ca. 1850, an ophicleide by Henry Distin, London, a serpent by F. Pretty, early 19th c. 7 percussion, including a pair of kettle drums, after 1850.
History: The museum was founded in 1857 and is installed in a building dating from 1562. The museum focuses on the archaeology, natural and social history of the county of Kent. Most of the musical instruments were acquired during the 1950s and 1960s.
Publications: A checklist of musical instruments is available upon request.
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University museum: musical instruments incorporated within a general collection.
Tel: (0161) 275-2634; Fax: (0161) 275-2676
Governing organization: University of Manchester
Primary responsibility: Keeper of Ethnology.
Open: 10-17 M-Sa; closed Su, Good Friday, bank holidays, 25, 26 December, 1 January.
Collection: about 225 instruments: some 152 from Africa, about 12 from Asia, about 25 from the Americas including some prehispanic whistling bottles, and about 31 from Australia and Oceania.
History: The museum was founded in 1821. The musical instruments are incorporated into the general ethnology collections, which came into the museum from 1890 onwards.
Services: educational programs, photography, and a conservation laboratory that serves the entire museum.
Publications: general museum guide.
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College of music collection.
Tel: (0161) 273-6283.
Governing organization: Royal Northern College of Music Council.
Primary responsibility: Librarian.
Open: by appointment only.
Collection: about 300 instruments. The Watson collection primarily consists of string and keyboard including: 5 violins (a Stradivari, a Guarneri, and a Grandjon); 14 miniature violins, kits and pochettes; 2 violas; 4 violas d'amore; 46 bows (made by such makers as Forster Betts, Dodd, Tubbs, Hill); 3 treble violas da gamba (a high one by an Amati), 2 division viols, 2 bass viols (one by Gasparo da Salo); a lute, a theorbo; 6 guitars; 2 English guitars, 2 lyre guitars (labelled Clementi, Pons), a harp guitar; 1 English cittern, a keyed cittern, an arch cittern, 4 mandolins (one a bass); a balalaika, a folding banjo; 2 dital harps (both by Light), an Irish harp, 3 dulcimers. 15 keyboard instruments including harpsichords by an anonymous Italian, Longman & Broderip, Shudi & Broadwood; square pianos by Pohlman and Broadwood; 2 grand pianos, both by Broadwood; and a barrel organ.
Extra-Watson instruments include over 50 woodwind instruments including a clarinet by John Hale, union and Northumbrian pipes; about 10 brass such as 2 ophicleides, 2 serpents, a bass buccin; various percussion, and some 70 ethnographic instruments.
History: Dr. Henry Watson of Salford formed his collection of musical instruments between 1900 and 1911. Earlier, in 1899, he had given his library of music and books to the Corporation of Manchester; which established the Manchester Public Library's Music Department. The Henry Watson Trust's gift of Dr. Watson's musical instruments collection to the Royal Northern College of Music in 1960 created the nucleus of the college's collection.
Instruments were stolen from the collection in 1973 and more were missing in 1975. The collection is now mostly in storage in the student residence hall.
Publications:
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Municipal museum incorporating musical instruments in a general collection.
Tel: (01685) 723-112; Fax: (01685) 722-146
Governing organization: Merthr Tydfil Borough Council. Leisure and Amenities Department.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: 10-17 M-Th, Sa; 10-16 F; 14-17 Su. Plus 1 hr. later between Apr-Sept.
Collection: Includes 20 instruments associated with the "Cyfarthfa [brass] Band" dating as far back as c.1838 along with a set of its part books and other related ephemera; as well as other wind and brass instruments: flutes by Goulding & D;Almaine, Hawkes and Son, both London; clarinet, D;Almaine & Co.; bassoon, Gerock, London; 2 keyed bugles, slide trumpet, Charles Pace, London ca. 1860; cornet, Besson, London, ca. 1880; natural trumpet; keyed trumpet; tenor cor, Hawkes & Son; flugel horn, Johann Riedl, Pressburg, ca. 1855; tenor trombone, serpent, E-flat bombardon; BB-flat bass, Hawkes & Son. Also, six Welsh harps, a triple harp and approximately 10 instruments from Africa and Asia, in particular India. The Cyfarthfa Band Collection includes: cornet, bass trombone, side drum, Dan Godfey, London, ca. 1893; baritone, 2 E-flat bombardons, BB-flat bass, Leopold Uhlmann, Vienna, ca. 1870; euphonium, Franz Bock, Vienna, Ca. 1868; ophicleide, 1871 BB-flat bass, Courtois, Paris, post-1856; anon. side drum; bass drum Hawkes
& Son, London; as well as mss. music, cap badges, photographs, paintings. For band-member Samuel Hughes's ophicleide, see Leicester: the Charles Moore Collection of Wind Instruments, University of Leicester.
History: The Cyfarthfa Band collection was gathered post 1930 after the dissolution of the band. The Cyfarthfa Castle Museum's musical-instrument acquisition policy is to collect instruments and materials connected with the Cyfarthfa Band, as well as other local bands and musicians.
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Municipal museum incorporating a collection of bagpipes.
Tel: (01670) 519-466; Fax: (01670) 510-348.
Governing organization: Castle Morpeth Borough Council.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: 9.30-17.30 M-Sa, Mar-Dec. 10-16 M-Sa, Jan-Feb. Closed: between 25 Dec. and 1 Jan; and bank holidays.
Collection: about 120 instruments including an especially fine group of Northumbrian small pipes dating from ca. 1680 to the 1930s by such makers as John Dunn and Robert Reid, early 19th c.; as well as Border Lowland, and uilleann pipes and a small collection of foreign bagpipes such as the musette de cour by Lissieu, Lyons, France, ca. 1690. There is also a collection of manuscripts and tunebooks.
History: The collection was assembled by William Alfred Cocks of Ryton, from 1920 to 1970. He bequeathed the collection to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1971. They were displayed at the Black Gate Museum Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1972 to 1987. In 1987 the collection was moved to the medieval chantry, Morpeth where they are now on view.
Services: regular concerts, informal classes, library.
Publications:
Recordings: for specifics, contact the museum.
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Municipal museum incorporating musical instruments in a general collection.
Tel: (01636) 702-358
Governing organization: Newark and Sherwood District Council.
Primary responsibility: Assistant Museum Manager.
Open: 10-13, 14-17 M-Sa. 14-17 Su April through Sept. only. Closed Thursdays, and from Oct. through March: Sundays.
Collection: 10 musical instruments including a tenor oboe and 2 bassoons by Milhouse, Newark, and a flute by W. Milhouse, 77 Oxford St., London. Local history is the focus of this museum.
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Tel: (0165) 30511
Open: by appointment.
Collection: about 50 musical instruments: 8 European woodwind and brass including a serpent by F. Pretty, ca. 1840; 16 European bowed and plucked strings including a bass viola da gamba by Richard Meares, London, 1680, a violoncello by Guersan, Paris, ca. 1745; 2 keyboards including a spinet by Thomas Hitchcock, London, 1722; 12 Asian wind, plucked and bowed strings, miscellaneous wind and percussion instruments; Georgian-period double music desk, and a library of printed and engraved music.
History: The collection was formed mainly between 1950 and 1980.
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University ethnographical collection incorporating musical instruments.
Tel: (0191) 222-7418
Governing organization: University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: 10-17 M-Sa, 14-17 Su.
Collection: about 85 instruments from various parts of the world.
History: The musical instruments were acquired by the Natural History Society of Northumbria between 1829 and today. They are now maintained by the University.
Services: photography can be arranged for researchers.
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Municipal museum incorporating musical instruments into a general collection.
Tel: (01604) 34881, ext. 5101.
Governing organization: Northampton Museums. Northampton Borough Council.
Primary responsibility: Keeper of Social History.
Open: 8.30-16.30 M-F. Most of the musical instruments are in storage; an appointment is advisable.
Collection: about 35 instruments: 13 woodwind: tabor pipe, recorder, fipple pipe, 2 fifes, piccolo, 3 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons; 9 brass: bugle, 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, ophicleide, euphonium; zither, harp; 9 keyboards: 2 American organs, 2 harmoniums, 3 square pianos, 2 upright pianos, mechanical instruments, and non-Western instruments.
History: Central Museum was founded in 1865, and has a national boot and shoe collection, also fine and decorative arts, archaeology, geology and Egyptology. The Abington Museum, Northampton is a branch of the Northampton Museums. It opened in 1897 in a building dating from 1500-1740, and contained the social history, costume and textile, and musical instrument collections. In November 1989 when it was closed for major structural repairs which have been delayed indefinitely, the musical instruments were moved to the Central Museum. When the Abington Museum is finally opened it is projected that a few of the musical instruments will be on exhibition there. Meanwhile, to see them, contact the Keeper of Social History now located at the Central Museum.
Services: permanent exhibitions, temporary exhibitions of art and on various aspects of the collections, occasional guided tours and lectures.
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Private museum of mechanical musical instruments.
Tel: (01451) 60181.
Open: 10 to 18 daily.
Collection: a representative collection of musical boxes, automata, player organs and reproducing pianos, restored to playing order, including: barrel organ, England, ca. 1770; polyphon; symphonion; Celestina paper-roll organette, Wilcox & White, Meriden, Conn., ca. 1890; piano-orchestrion, Leipzig; barrel piano with percussion, Germany; reproducing piano, electrified, M. Welte & Soehne, Freiburg, 1905; Aeolian orchestrelle, 1910.
History: The owners are music-box restorers in business since 1961. The museum, housed in the 16th-c. Westwood's Grammar School, was opened in 1987.
Services: 1 1/4 hr. guided tours throughout the day during which some of the instruments are played.
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County museum with collection of musical instruments.
Tel: (01603) 667-231.
Governing organization: Norfolk County Council. Museums Service.
Primary responsibility: Keeper of Social History.
Open: 10-17 M-Sa.
Collection: 17 woodwind, stringed and keyboard instruments many of which were used in East Anglia churches, including a 3-string bass viol; positiv organ, Italy, ca. 1625; barrel organ, Wheatstone, London, ca. 1820; keyed harmonicon made for music educator Sarah Glover (1786-1867), pioneer of the tonic sol-fa system. See also Stranger's Hall Museum below.
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County museum with collection of musical instruments.
Tel: (01603) 667-229.
Governing organization: Norfolk County Council. Museums Service.
Primary responsibility: Keeper of Social History.
Open: 10-17 M-Sa.
Collection: Small collection of 18th and 19th century English and European instruments, including a bass recorder by Peter Bressan, London, ca. 1720-1724; and sheet music and scores. See also St. Peter Hungate Church Museum above.
History: The Castle Museum in Norwich was established in 1894 after which the collections were gradually established. Strangers Hall opened as a museum in 1923. The instruments and music are part of the memorabilia relating to Sarah Glover (1786-1867) of Norwich who created the tonic sol-fa system.
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University museum with collection of stringed instruments and other musical instruments incorporated into other collections.
Tel: (01865) 278-000; Fax: (01865) 278-018
Governing organization: Visitors of the Ashmolean Museum.
Primary responsibility: Hill Collection: Keeper of the Department of Western Art. Keeper of the Department of Antiquities.
Open: 10-16 Tu-Sa, 14-16 Su. Closed: M, 24-26 Dec, 1 Jan, Good Friday, Easter Sunday and St Giles Fair (M,Tu after 1st Su after 2nd Sept.)
Collection: W.E. Hill & Sons Collection: 44 instruments: 7 violas da gamba: treble, Giovanni Maria, Brescia, Venice, 1500-1525; bass, Gasparo (Bertolotti) da Salo Brescia, late 16th c.; bass Venice, 16th c.; bass, John Rose, Bridewell London, ca. 1600; lyra, John Rose, London 1598; lyra, Ricahrd Blunt, London, 1605; bass with 'cello features, Antonius & Hieronymus Amati (the "brothers"), Cremona, 1611. Lira da braccio, Giovanni Maria, Brescia, Venice, ca. 1525; lira-viola, Gasparo da Salo, Brescia, 1561; violin ("Charles IX"; see Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery for the piccolino violin from this set) Andrea Amati, Cremona, 1564; viola ("Charles IX"), Andrea Amati, Cremona 1574; viola, Gasparo da Salo, Brescia, late 16th c.; viola, the brotheres Amati, Cremona, 1592; violin, the brothers Amati, Cremona, 1618; violin ("Alard") Nicola Amati, Cremona, 1649; violins, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1683, ("Le Messie") 1716. 12 bows, 10 for violins by such makers as Thomas
Smith, ca. 1756, Tourte pere, ca. 1760, Edward Dodd, ca. 1775, John Dodd, ca. 1780, ca. 1800; 2 bass viol bows, one by Peter Walmsley, fl.1720-44. 3 citterns: Gasparo da Salo, Brescia, ca. 1560; 2 anon., Italy, 17th c. 5 English guitars: 2 by J.N. Preston, London, fl.1734-70; Michael Rauche, London, 1770; Frederick Hintz, London, 1786; Lucas, London, late 18th c. 4 guitars: chitarra battente, Giorgio Sellas, Venice, 1627; Rene Voboam, France, 1641; Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1688; Antonio dos Santos Vieyra, Portugual, 17th c. Virginal, Adam Leversidge, London, 1670. Gifts from other donors: violins: Francesco Ruggeri, Jacob Stainer, Absam in Tyrol, 1672; harpsichord, Jacob Kirckman, London, 1772; silver trumpets by William Bull, London, fl.1666-1707; William Shaw, London, fl.1775-1817; ivory trumpet, Sherbro, West Africa, early 17th c.; double elephant membrane drum, West Africa, early 17th c.; jew's harp, from Woodperry, medieval or later; terracotta salpynx, Cypro-Archaic; 4 bronze age trumpets from Co. Kerry, ca. 750 B.C. Parts of harp,
decorated tambourine membrane, reed pipes, all three ancient Egypt.
N.B. There is another sumptuously mounted silver trumpet in Queen's College, Oxford, gift of Sir Joseph Williamson, 1666.
History: W.E. Hill Collection: gift of the violin dealers Arthur and Alfred Hill out of their concern that ever increasing musical demands on the fine old bowed strings were placing such enormous physical strain on them that none would survive in original condition. They gave 20 instruments in 1939, more in 1946, and 1948; and the Hill exhibition room was opened in 1950. The Hill Collection is to be preserved for posterity; not played. Additional instruments were gifts from other donors.
Services: photographs.
Publications:
N.B. The business of W.E. Hill & Sons (quite separately and apart from their collection given to the Ashmolean) sold some of the instruments they still owned in three Phillips auctions of: 15 April, 20 June, and 24 November 1991.
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University museum of musical instruments.
Tel: (01865) 276-139.
Governing organization: University of Oxford.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: 14-17 M-F; closed 25 Dec. Other times by appointment for groups and specialists wishing to examine instruments.
Collection: about 1100 instruments, predominantly European art musical instruments from the 16th into the 20th c.: 63 recorders, e.g. basset recorder stamped "!! !!", ? Italy, 16th c.; 233 transverse flutes; 26 misc. flutes; 106 oboes; 66 bassoons; bagpipes; 174 clarinets; 12 saxophones; 91 misc. reeds; 22 cornetts and serpents; 25 trumpets; 55 cornets and bugles; 33 french horns; 17 trombones; 4 misc. brass; 51 percussion; Javanese double gamelan, the Kyai Madu Laras; 33 strings, and bows; 15 keyboards.
Also a library of books and music, and an archives containing the papers of such well-known organologists as Reginald Morely-Pegge (mainly concerned with horns) and including many of W.F.H. Blandford's papers; R.B. Chatwin (on clarinets and stringed instruments, especially the viola).
History: The nucleus of the collection was donated by organologist Philip Bate in 1963. The Collection was established in 1969. Musical instruments are viewed as tools for musicians, rather than purely aesthetic objects.
Collections include:
Services: photography, tours, classes, seminars; conservation done outside by specialists; instruments are lent to specialist performers. Postcards, colour photographs, miniplans (line-drawing postcards without bore measurements) and various publications for sale.
Publications:
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Open: to anyone seriously interested, only by appointment. Apply to The Curator, The Bate Collection, Faculty of Music, St Aldate's, Oxford OX1 1DB (where some of the instruments are on loan). E-mail to pitt@prm.ox.ac.uk (with subject: Access to private collection) will be forwarded.
Collection: c. 2,300 instruments, world-wide, all periods:
`European' art music instruments: Flutes & Whistles 108, Reeds 54, Brass 88, Strings 15, Idiophones 147, Membranophones 62, Keyboards 2, Misc. 96.
Also music and accessories and a major research library.
Specialities: shawms, trumps, shofarot, mediaeval percussion.
History: The Collection was formed from about 1960 to illustrate lectures on instruments world-wide and for research and demonstration.
Publications in print:
Services: Photographs, lectures, exhibitions, consultancies (cataloguing, identification, etc) for other collections, teaching in systematic organology.
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University museum of ethnology and prehistory incorporating musical instruments within a general collection; also part of the School of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
Tel: (01865) 270-927.
Governing organization: University of Oxford.
Primary responsibility: Hélène La Rue, Curator of musical instruments/Lecturer in Ethnomusicology
Open: 13-16.30 M-Sa. Check with office for opening hours over Christmas and Easter. 9.30 to 12, M-Sa open to groups; and by appointment.
Collection: about 6000 musical instruments from all geographical areas and all periods of history. Also an archives containing photographs, film;
Private collections including musical instruments incorporated in the museum are: General Pitt Rivers, 1883, 300 instruments; Henry Balfour, 1883-1839; Beatrice Blackwood; Professor Hutton; Mr. Mills; Evans Pritchard; Maharajah Sourindo Mohun Tagore; Sir E.B. Tylor
History: the museum was established in 1884 with the gift of Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers' private collection of about 15,0000 objects, 300 of which were musical instruments. Anthropology was first taught in the British Isles at the University. Musical instruments already in various university collections were transferred to the museum. Henry Balfour enlarged the collection from the original 300 instruments to over 4000. In 1986 the Balfour Building was opened containing two exhibition areas including the Music Makers Gallery with a sound guide and an audio-visual booth.
Services: photography, conservation, tours, demonstrations, concerts, activities for families, and children; the museum also serves as a teaching department of the University.
Publications:
Recordings: sound archive containing about 1000 wax cylinders, the earliest from 1910; and c. 3000 discs.
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Municipal museum including musical instruments in the general collection.
Tel: (01733) 343-329.
Governing organization: Peterborough City Council.
Primary responsibility: Museum Services Curator.
Open: 10-17 Tu-F; 13-14 most Sa. Closed 25,26 Dec.
Collection: 3 instruments: a violin, viola and violoncello by Geoffrey Gilbert, Priestgate, Peterborough.
History: The museum moved to its present building in 1931; the Peterborough City Council began governing the museum in 1967. All other musical instruments have been transferred to the Horniman Museum and Library.
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National Trust property with musical instruments.
Tel: (0181) 940-1950.
Governing organization: National Trust, Southern Regional Office, Polesden Lacey, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6BD.
Tel: (01372) 453 401.
Primary responsibility: Historic Buildings Representative, National Trust Southern Regional Office. Custodian.
Closed for major building renovations. Thereafter hours and holidays subject to review.
Collection: (on display:) Sofa table square piano, John Broadwood & Son, London, 1801; harpsichord, England, ca. 1730. (In storage:) 1 small string, 1 woodwind instruments, tambourine, 2 drums.
History: The house was built in 1610. It became a National Trust property in 1948. Its contents, administered by the Victoria and Albert Museum until 1991, are now on loan to the National Trust and administered by same.
Publications: House guide including nothing specific about the musical instruments.
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Municipal museum incorporating musical instruments in a general collection.
Tel: (01634) 848-717
Governing organization: Rochester-upon-Medway City Council.
Primary responsibility: Museum curator.
Open: 10-17.30 daily; closed 25 December.
Collection: about 20 instruments including: ophicleide; zither, Victoran period; pedestal harmonium; 3 pianos, 19th c., including one by Broadwood, London; barrel chamber organ, early 19th c.; barrel organ (dismantled), early 19th c. from the Trottiscliffe Church.
History: the museum was founded in 1897; the musical instruments were acquired by donation.
Publications: musical instruments included in a general museum catalogue.
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Municipal museum, musical instruments incorporated in a general collection.
Tel: (01799) 22494.
Governing organization: Uttlesford District Council.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: 11-16 M-Sa, Oct.-Apr.; 11-17 M-Sa May-Sept.; 14-30-17 Su and bank holidays.
Collection: some 121 instruments: 40 aerophones, 10 cordophones, 60 idiophones,
11 membranophones; including archaeological items from North-West Essex, Polynesia (Tahiti, Cook Islands, New Zealand), Africa (Uganda, Cameroon, Southern Africa, Ghana, etc.), and Mexico.
History: The museum was founded in 1835, and it exists to serve the local community in a wide range of disciplines. Musical instruments were acquired by gift mainly from local residents.
Services: permanent exhibition, classes, exhibits, tours.
Publications: musical instruments are included in a general museum catalogue.
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Private charitable trust music museum.
Tel: (01727) 869-693 / 51557 / 873-896, or (0923) 264-786.
Governing organization: St. Albans Musical Museum Society.
Primary responsibility: Chairman and Trustee.
Open: 14-16.30 Su; and evenings by appointment.
Collection: a permanent working exhibition of 15 mechanical instruments, many keyboard, including reproducing: Weber grand, a 1920s Weber Unika orchestrion fitted with a mandolin attachment and violin pipes, 1925 Steinway DuoArt, and the keyboardless Welte Mignon pianos, as well as a Mills Violano-Virtuoso (mechanical violin and 44-note piano), all complete with rolls. Among the organs are 4 large Belgian cafe & dance organs by Mortier (elaborate case), 1920, ca. 1939 DeCap, and Bursens; theater organs: a three-manual, ten-rank Wurlitzer with extensive percussion, 1933, from the Granada in Edmonton, North London; and the three-manual, six rank Spurden-Rutt, London from the Regal, Highams Park. There are also 5 disc music boxes, organettes, gramophones, an early Hammond organ, various reed organs; and a 16 mm. early film library.
History: Much of the collection was originally assembled by Charles Hart (1896-1983), who in 1978 established the charitable trust that maintains and adminsters his collection, making it permanently available to the public.
Services: tours, performances and lectures.
Recordings: casettes are available of 4 mechanical organs and the Rutt theatre organ.
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Municipal Museum incorporating musical instruments into a general collection.
Tel: (01534) 30511; Fax: (01534) 66085.
Governing organization: Jersey Museum Service (Société Jersiaise).
Primary responsibility: Curator of Social History.
Open: 10-18 M-Sa, 14-17 Su, Easter to 31 Oct;
10-17 M-Sa, 14-17 Su, Nov. to Easter; and all bank holidays
Closed 25, 26 Dec.
Collection: about 20 instruments, including a collection of 15 used in 19th-c. Jersey churches and bands: 8 clarinets by Gerock, Goulding D'Almaine & Co., Garrett, Wolf and Figg, all London, and Dobner & Felkin, Strassbourg; 2 flutes, by Powell and D'Almaine & Co., both London; 2 flageolets; a 1-key piccolo; and 2 bassoons, by Milhouse, and Key. The collection also includes barrel organs, and some instruments made by the local maker deHeaume.
History: The museum was founded in 1873. It includes a collection of musical instruments used in Jersey churches and bands in the 19th c.
Services: some guided tours.
Publications: offprints are avaliable for some objects in the collection; request them from the librarian, Lord Coutanache Library at the above address.
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Municipal museum incorporating a wind instruments in a general collection.
Tel: (01142) 768-588 / 722-106.
Governing organization: Sheffield City Museums.
Primary responsibility: Curator of Social History.
Open: 10-17; closed 25, 26 Dec. 1 Jan, and bank holidays. The collection is in storage; an appointment is necessary to see them.
Collection: about 50 wind instruments, including 8 flutes, by such makers as Cotton, fl.1770-94, Phillips, ca. 1800, W.P. Potter, Metzler, Parker; early 19th c.; 14 clarinets, by Goulding and Co, Bilton, Metzler, Astor, Gerock; 18 bassoons by Goulding, & D'Almaine, Aston, Milhouse, Stengel, Tri&eactue;bert, Grenser & Weinser, Parker, Michner, Parker among others; 2 ophicleides by D'Almaine, ca. 1850 and Wood & Ivy, ca. 1840; an ophimonocleide by Coeffet, Chaumont, ca. 1830; a Russian bassoon, Cuvillier, pre-1834; an 18th-c. serpent; and 3 flageolets.
History: John Parr donated his collection, primarily bassoons, in 1955; it is the nucleus of the musical instruments collection. Other instruments have been acquired since.
Publications: a typescript checklist is available.
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Private musical instrument museum.
Tel: (01274) 585-601 after 17 h.
Primary responsibility: Phil and Pam Fluke, Directors.
Open: 11-16 Su-Th; closed F, Sa.
Collection: some 50 reed organs, from small bible harmoniums to large multiple-manual with pedalboard reed organs, made in both Europe and America. The collection includes reed organs by: Alexandre, Paris (3): 1853, '56, '92; Gilbert Bauer London (2): 1886, 1901; Joseph Bell, York, 1864; Bell Organ & Piano Co., Guelph, Ontario (2): 1898, 1907; Busson, Paris, 1860; Clough & Warren, Detroit (2): 1880, '90; Couty & Richard, Paris, 1880; Debain, Paris, ca. 1865; W.Doherty, Clinton, Ontario, 1901; J. Estey, Brattleborough, Vermont (2): 1881, '83; William Hill, London, ca. 1886; James Hillier, London, ca. 1880; John Holt, Birmingham, 1938, Charles Kelly, London, ca. 1878; John Malcolm, London, ca. 1898; Theodor Mannborg, Leipzig, ca. 1912; Mason & Hamlin, Boston, Mass. (4): 1875, ca. 1890, 1895 1903; Mason & Rich, Worcester, Mass., 1899; V. Mustel, Paris (3): 1882, '97, '97; Archibald Ramsden, Leeds, ca. 1875; J.W. Sawyer, Leeds, ca. 1910; Schurer, ?Germany, ca. 1935; Smith American Organ & Piano Co.,
Boston, Mass., (2): ca. 1888, '97; R.F. Stevens, London (3): 1923, '28, 45; Philip Trayser, Stuttgart, ca. 1875; Whomes, Bexleyheath, Kent, 1924; George Woods, Boston, Mass. (3): 1873, 1874, ca. 1878; bible harmonium by Metzler & Co., London, ca. 1880; 2 table harmoniums: Permanand, Nawad Shahad Sind, Pakistan, pre-1947; anon, India. Also a large archive of primary documentation; biographical data on makers; instrument specifications; British patents; printers' blocks for advertisements; and library of music.
History: The museum was opened to the public in 1985. Visitors are allowed to play instruments.
Services: tours, archives, library, conservation and restoration, sales desk with books and postcards.
Publications:
Recordings: various.
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Municipal museum incorporating musical instruments in a general collection.
Tel: (01756) 794-079; Fax: (01756) 700-657.
Governing organization: Craven District Council.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: 11-17 W-F, 10-12, 13-17 Sa; 14-17 Su, Apr.-Sept.
14-17 W-F, 10-12 Sa, 13.30-16.30 Sa-Su; Oct.-Mar.
Collection: 5 wind instruments: 2 clarinets, 2 jew's harps, a Kent bugle, serpent, ophicleide by Sunderland of Keighley, ca. 1853, and an accordion; 4 keyboards: square and upright pianos by Broadwood, and Mansell; harmonium, Estey reed organ.
History: The collection was begun in the 1920s, from which the museum was founded in 1928 as the private collection of the Craven Museum and Archaeological Society. In 1934 it was given to the Skipton Urban District Council, and in 1974 to the Craven District Council.
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Municipal museum incorporating musical instruments in a local history collection.
Tel: (01453) 163-394.
Governing organization: Stroud District Council.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: 10.30-13, 14-17 M-Sa. Closed bank holidays.
Collection: about 25 instruments; 12 European art musical instruments; 12 traditional instruments from England and Ireland.
History: The collection was begun in 1899; the museum opened in 1929.
The acquistions policy aims to collect instruments with local history connections. Some instruments are from the collection of the late Samuel Underwood.
Services: permanent and temporary exhibitions; a few books from the late 18th and 19th c., musical scores.
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Municipal museum with a special collection of musical instruments.
Tel: (01793) 26161, ext. 3129.
Primary responsibility: Museums curator.
Open: 10-18 M-Sa; 14-17 Su.
Collection: about 60 instruments, all in storage: 22 European art musical instruments, 2 traditional European instruments; 15 from Africa; 18 from Asia.
History: The collection, primarily that of F. Winslow, a local musician, guitar maker and repairer, was established about 1930; additions have been acquired since.
Publications: the collection is included in a general museum catalogue.
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County museum incorporating musical instruments in a local history museum.
Tel: (01823) 255-504.
Governing organization: Somerset County Council.
Primary responsibility: County Museums Officer; Keeper (Conservation).
Open: 10-17 M-Sa.
Collection: about 25 instruments, most with local history associations, including 10 trumpets; a serpent with the Somerset Light Infantry crest; a keyed Royal Kent bugle, another used by the Yeovil Volunteers; a euphonium by Butler, London; a piccolo and case, 2 flutes, 1 by D'Almaine Co., 2 pitchpipes, 2 panpipes; 6 drums, used by the Ilchester United Band, the West Somerset Yeomanry, and one at the Battle of Sedgemoor, 1685; a virginals by Charles Rewallin, 1675; a Kirckman harpsichord, 1790, a grand piano, Pleyel et Cie, Paris, ca. 1850; harmonium, H.J. Goulden.
Publications: a computerized checklist available on request.
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Local history museum governed by a natural history society, incorporating a collection of musical instruments.
Tel: (01803 293-975.
Governing organization: Torquay Natural History Society.
Primary responsibility: Curator of Social History.
Open: 10-16.45 M-Sa., 10-4.45 Su, mid-June-mid Sept.
Closed two weeks during Christmas and New Year holidays.
Collection: about 50 instruments, (some 21 woodwind, 4 brass, 12 string, 3 percussion and 30 ethnographic instruments) and includes 3 flageolets, a piccolo by Goulding, London used by the Whitby Pink Band; 3 flutes, 2 by the Potters, an ivory one, a clarinet, and an oboe all by Cahusac, the clarinet used in the Whitby Pink Band; 4 more oboes: by T. Cahusac; T. Lot, Paris; mid-18th c. Prosser used in Lamley Church, Nottingham; Goodlad, London; and by L.T. Uhlmann, Vienna, early 19th c.; Kohler slide trumpet; 6-key trumpet; bugle.
History: The Collection incorporates the Ulric Daubeny (European wind instruments), and Paget-Blake (Asian instruments) collections.
Services: guided tours by arrangement.
Publications:
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Tel: (0181) 898-5533; Fax: (0181) 898-7906.
Governing organization: Regimental Trustees.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: M-F by appointment only.
Collection: ca. 400 military instruments, largely European winds, with some drums and double bass, as well as instruments from India and Africa. Also included is the W.F. Blandford Collection of military instruments and documents. Significant instruments include: 2 flutes, Schuchart, London, ca. 1763; flute, Hall, London ca. 1790, trumpet, G.H. Rodenbostel, London, fl. 1764-1789; the Cornelius Ward kettle drums; serpent Forveille, Paris, ca. 1830; ophicleide, Gautrot l'ainé, Paris, ca. 1870; contrabass ophicleide by Mahillon, late 19th c.
History: The School of Music was founded in 1857; the government assumed its administration in 1865. Kneller Hall, the School's residence is the country manison of painter Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723). The collection was begun in the 1920s, and includes gifts of instruments from a variety of donors, including Col. Balfour, Henry Farmer, Lee Southgate, Blandford, and Buckingham Palace.
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Municipal museum with musical instruments incorporated into a general collection.
Tel: (01925) 30550 / 444-400.
Governing organization: Warrington Borough Council.
Primary responsibility: Curator of Museum and Art Galleries.
Open: 10-17.30 M-F; 10-17 Sa. Closed Su and bank holidays.
Collection: about 20 instruments including a serpent; crwth, Wales, ca. 1760; hurdy-gurdy; virginals, Thomas Bolton, ? 1684; grand piano, Kirkman, London; square piano, Collard & Collard, as well as a collection of phonographs and gramophones.
History: The museum was founded in 1848 and opened at its present location in 1857.
Services: photography, guided tours, classes.x
N.B. Nearby is Parr Hall in which is installed the Cavallé-Coll organ, Paris, 1870, in working order.
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Private medieval castle incorporating musical instruments in a general collection.
Tel: (01926) 495-421; Fax: (01926) 401-692.
Governing organization: Mme. Tussauds Ltd.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: 10-17.30 Mar-Nov; 10-16.30 Nov.-Feb. Closed only on 25 Dec.
State rooms viewable by appointment only; medieval banquets F & Sa eves.
Collection: 8 instruments: 2 trumpets: 1 by William Shaw, London, fl. 1783-1802; 2 bugles, Koehler, London, 1807-10; 2 horns: bronze, Italy, inscribed 1598; animal horn, France, 18th or 19th c.; manual organ; military side drum ca. 1830.
History: The castle, one of the finest medieval fortresses in Europe, has its 14th c. curtain wall and tower defence system intact. The interior was largely rebuilt in the 17th c., and again in 1871 following a disastrous fire. The collection includes fine arms and armor; and the state rooms contain superb paintings and furniture, along with the instruments.
Services: lectures, tours, medieval banquets, F, Sa eves, and other times by arrangment.
Publications: Warwick guide book.
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County museum incorporating a musical instruments collection; with a branch museum at: St. John's House, Coten End, Warwick (where some instruments are also shown).
Tel: (01926) 412-5000.
Governing organization: Warwickshire County Council.
Primary responsibility: County Museum Curator.
Open: 10-17.30 M-F; closed bank holidays.
Note: all musical instruments are in storage; to see them an appointment is necessary.
Collection: about 60 instruments. 11 keyboards include: harpsichord, Herman Tabel, London, 1721; ottavina, Germany or Low Countries, ca. 1650; 3 square pianos, Clementi & Co, 2 by Broadwood, all London, early 19th c.; 2 upright pianos, Robert Wornum, 1820, and Harrison and Co, ca. 1875, both London; a player piano, John Spencer, London, ca. 1910, reed organ, Bell Organ Co., Guelph, Ontario, 19th c., 2 harmoniums: Metzler & Co., London, Mason & Hamlin, Boston, 19th c. 3 violins: Domenicus Montagnana, Venice, 1730s; England, ca. 1770; viola, Charles & Samuel Thompson, London, 1771. Lute, Hans Frei, Bologna, c.a 1550. Single-action harp, Barry, London, ca. 1810; bell harp. 15 woodwind, including: 2 treble recorders in F, Stanesby Sr. & Bressan, London, ca. 1688-1724, Stanesby Jr., London, ca. 1715-1750; bass recorder, 1690-1710; 3 flutes: Potter, ca. 1810, Fentum, ca. 1840, anon, pre-1850, all London made; 2 pitch pipes; 9-key oboe, Thomas Key, London, ca. 1840; 6-key bassoon, stamped Gerock, Astor & Co.,
London, Parker, London, ca. 1820; 3 clarinets: Goulding & Co., D'Almaine & Co., anon, all London, 19th c.; plus double reeds and clarinet mouthpieces. 6 brass: D trumpet, Bull, London, 1676-1800; hunting horn, Kohler, London, ca. 1790; 6-key bugle, Sandbach, London, ca. 1820, and brass mouthpieces. Symphonium, Wheatstone, London, c.a 1830; 2 concertinas: Wheatstone, 1860, Lachenal & Co., London, 19th c. Organ clock, Pyke, London, c.a 1760; barrel organ, Broderip & Wilson, London, ca. 1805; seraphine, 19th c.; polyphon, Leipzig, ca. 1905. Musical glasses, 19th c.; 3 side drums, triangle, and handbells, Birmingham, ca. 1890.
History: The museum was founded in 1836; the musical instrument collection was assembled by Jocelyn M. Morris, County Museum Curator from 1948-1977 wiht the help of Eric Halfpenny (1906-1979) and incorporates a number of instruments from his collection. The Shaw-Hellier Collection was on loan to the Warwickshire County Museum until about 1990; it is now on loan the the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments.
Services: exhibitions; measured drawings, information sheets and photos of lute and recorders.
Publications:
Checklist of collection available for the asking.
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Private museum of mechanical musical instruments, and organs.
Tel: (01775) 634-379.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: 10-18 Sa-Su bank holidays Easter to end of Sept.;
13-17 M-F Jul-Sept.; other times by appointment.
Collection: over 500 instruments, mechanical instruments music boxes, disc music boxes, reproducing organs (by music rolls), barrel organs (1 by Limonaire, 1 by Voight), pianolas, church, cinema, dance and fairground organs with an exhibit of carved merry-go-round animals, and the Tillers Royal Marionettes, ca. 1790; phonographs, gramophones and 12,000 recordings; objects documenting the history of raido and television; reed organs, harmoniums, pianos, and a bioscope-show (early fairground cinema) entryway to two pipe organs, and a cinema organ by Compton, Gaumont, Coventry, 1931, and a complete cinema, ca. 1938.
History: The collection was begun in the 1950s by Ray and Iris Tunnicliff to document entertainment.
Services: tours, performances, lectures, classes, permanent exhibition, library, photography, conservation.
Publications: several lists of instruments; an illustrated handbook. For details, send a self-addressed envelope.
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Municipally-owned private collection of musical instruments. Office: Director of Leisure, Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council, Trencherfield Mill, Wigan, WN3 4EF
Tel: (01942) 44991.
Governing organization: Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council.
Primary responsibility: Curator.
Open: 10-17 M-F, 10-13 Sa.
Collection: 22 woodwind and brass instruments, all London-made unless otherwise noted: 3 flutes: Cahusac, late 18th c.; William Prosser, pre-1767; Monzani, early 19th c.; fife, J. Wood, early 19th c.; 2 clarinets: Goulding & Co, Goulding & d'Almaine, early 19th c.; flageolet, Bainbridge & Wood, early 19th c.; oboe, Garrett, Whitehall, ca. 1830; musette, ?, early 19th c.; Highland pipe chanter, ?, early 20th c.; 2 bassoons: Milhouse, ca. 1835, Distin, mid-19th c.; 2 keyed bugles: Charles Pace & Son, ca. 1845; cornopean, Roe, Liverpool, ca. 1845; slide trumpet, inscribed William Harris, fl.1773-1793, converted pre-1860; 2 serpents: anon, 18th c.; Thomas Key, ca. 1840; ophicleide, ca. mid-19th c.; hand horn Alphonse Cary, Newbury, ca. late 19th c.; flute in shape of truncheon, France, early 20th c.
History: William Rimmer (1861-1936), born in Southport, was a cornet player, a leading band trainer and conductor. In 1910 he retired from contest coaching and concentrated on writing and arranging. In 1925 he donated his collection of 22 musical instruments to the Wigan Public Library.
Publications: checklist available.
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County museum.
Tel: (01962) 846304
Governing organization: Hampshire County Council.
Primary responsibility: Keeper of Industrial and Social History.
Open: by appointment for serious viewers.
Collection: about 25 instruments including flutes; boxwood clarinets; flageolet; two tubas, one by Campton, Burbage, inscribed "Basingstoke Mechanics' Institute Band, 1875"; one-string fiddle, England; double bass with tuning mechanism inside pegbox; mandolin by Donatus Filano, Italy, 1765; long drum that belonged to Basingstoke West End Band; upright pianos, melodeon, Swiss music box.
History: gradually acquired since 1880.
Collection available for display in county museums. Collection includes the William Herbert Allen bequest.
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Municipal museum with a collection of musical instruments.
Tel: (01904) 653-611.
Governing organization: York City Council.
Primary responsibility: Director.
Open: 9.30-17.30 M-Sa, 10.30-17.30 Apr-Oct; 9.30-16 M-Sa, 10-16 Su, Nov-Mar. An appointment is necessary to view instruments in storage.
Collection: about 250 instruments
History: Museum founded in 1938.
Publications:
ABERDEEN, Scotland
Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen, Marischal College, Broad Street, Aberdeen AB9 1AS.
- Robert W. Reid. Illustrated Catalogue of the Anthropological Museum. Aberdeen University Studies, no. 55. Aberdeen: University Press, 1912.
AYLESBURY, Buckinghamshire.
Waddeston Manor, Waddesdon, Aylesbury, Bucks HP18 0JH
- Eric Halfpenny. "Musical Instruments [at Waddeston Manor]" Apollo, June, 1977 446-451 CV, no. 184.
BARNARD CASTLE, County Durham
The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, DL12 8NP.
- "The Sound of the Georgian Piano: English Keyboard Music 1760- 1860." RCA LHLI 5101 LP. Alan Cuckston, piano.
- "A Musical Evening with the Bronte Family." Swinsty Records, Fewston, Harrogate, North Yorks, FEW 01 LP. Alan Cuckston, piano.
- "Music at Bowes." Plant Life Records, Hitchin, 1981. PLR 029 LP. Concert Royal.
BATLEY, West Yorkshire
Bagshaw Museum, Wilton Park, Batley, West Yorks WF17 0RS
BATH, Avon
Holburne Museum and Crafts Study Centre, Great Pulteney Street, Bath BA2 4DB.
BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND
Ulster Museum and Botanic Gardens, Stranmillis, Belfast, Northern Ireland BT9 5AB.
BIRMINGHAM, West Midlands
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 8DH.
- S. Davies. "By the Gains of Industry: the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 1885-1985". Birmingham, 1985.
BIRMINGHAM, West Midlands
Birmingham Museums, Department of Science & Industry, Newhall Street, Birmingham B3 1EZ.
BIRMINGHAM, West Midlands
Birmingham Conservatoire, University of Central England, Paradise Place, Birmingham, B3 3HG.
BOURNEMOUTH, Dorset
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Eastcliff, Bournemouth BH1 1AE.
BRENTFORD (near London), Middlesex.
The Musical Museum (formerly the British Piano Museum), 386 High Street, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 0BD.
BRIGHTON, East Sussex.
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Church Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1VE
BRISTOL, Avon
City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Queen's Road, Bristol; also Department of Agricultural and Social History, Blaise Castle House Museum, Henbury, Bristol BS10 7QS.
BRISTOL, Avon
Private keyboard collection. For information or to apply for an appointment, contact The Director, Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AG;
BROADWAY, Worcestershire
Snowshill Manor, Charles Paget Wade Collection, Snowshill, Broadway, Worcs. WR12 7LU
BURY ST. EDMUNDS, Suffolk
Moyse's Hall Museum, Local History Collection, Cornhill, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 1DG.
- Galpin Society Journal XVII, p.107.
CAMBRIDGE, Cambridgeshire
Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge DB2 1RB.
- John M. Huskinson: Handel and the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, 1974; French Music and the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, 1975; Italian Music and the Fitzwilliam, 1976, including: Trevor Becklerleg, "The Fitzwilliam Museum Harpsichord"; Gainsborough, English Music and the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, 2 vols., eds. J.A. Fuller Maitland and W. Barclay; ed. by Blanche Winogron for: N.Y., Dover, 1980.
CAMBRIDGE, Cambridgeshire
University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ.
CARLISLE, Cumbria
Carlisle Museum & Art Gallery, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Castle Street,
Carlisle, Cumbria CA3 8TP.
CHELTENHAM, Gloucestershire
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museums, Department of Applied Art, Clarence Street,
Cheltenham GL50 2JT.
CHELTENHAM, Gloucestershire
Gustav Holst Birthplace Museum, 4 Clarence Road, Cheltenham.
CHESTER, Cheshire
Grosvenor Museum, Local History Department, 27 Grosvenor Street,
Chester CH1 2DD.
CHICHESTER, West Sussex
Mechanical Music and Doll Collection, Church Road, Portfield, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 4HN
COLCHESTER, Essex.
Colchester Museums, Holytrees, High Street, Colchester, Essex;
correspondence: Social History Department, Museum Resource Centre,
14 Ryegate Road, Colchester, Essex CO1 1YG.
DOUGLAS, Isle of Man
Manx Museum and National Trust, Crellins Hill, Douglas, Isle of Man.
National museum: instruments incorporated in a general collection.
Tel: (01624) 75522; Fax: (01624) 661899
DUNDEE, Scotland
Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Department, McManus Galleries, Albert Square,
Dundee DD1 1DA, Scotland.
- The Antique Collector, February 1958, p. 11.
- The English Illustrated Magazine, January 1884, p. 22
- The Museums Journal, October 1919, p. 60.
EDGWARE, Middlesex
Boosey and Hawkes Museum, Deansbrook Road, Edgware, Middlesex HA8 9BB
- Anthony Baines: Antique Musical Instruments of Historical Interest [a checklist]. Edgware, 1972
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, Scotland. Web URL: http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/
- Historic Musical Instruments in the Edinburgh University Collection [EUCHMI], Arnold Myers, ed., Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, 1990- Vol. 1: The Illustrations. Vol. 2-: Detailed descriptions. (in progress)
- Lumsden, Alan, The Sound of the Sackbut. Edinburgh: EUCHMI, 1988.
- Gray, Catherine and Arnold Myers, EUCHMI: Guide to the Collection. Edinburgh: EUCHMI, 1987.
- Myers, Arnold, "The Oldest Trombone in Britain," The Trombonist (1987, summer), 7.
- Myers, Arnold, "The Macaulay Collection of Musical Instruments, Edinburgh," Glareana, (Nachrichten der Gesellschaft der Freunde alter Musikinstrumente) (1986), XXXV: 12-14.
- [Dibley, Tom, Arnold Myers and other lenders], The Historic Clarinet, an exhibition mounted at the EUCHMI 9th-30th August 1986, showing the development of the clarinet in the context of other musical instruments. Edinburgh International Festival, 1986. [Edinburgh: EUCHMI, 1986]
- Thomas Glen MS. Account Book (1838-1853), Arnold Myers, intro. and indexes. Edinburgh: EUCHMI, 1985
- Waterhouse, William. The Proud Bassoon: an exhibition showing the development of the bassoon over the centuries. The Waterhouse Collection of bassoons and related items. Lyndesay [G.] Langwill, foreword. [Exhibition mounted at EUCHMI, 17th - 31st August 1983. Edinburgh International Festival, 1983. [Edinburgh: EUCHMI, 1983]
- Baines, Anthony. On the Benefits of a University Collection of Musical Instruments. Edinburgh: EUCHMI, 1982
- Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, Check-lists of the Collection, 10 fascicles: Ethnic; Brass; Double Reed; Plucked and Hammered Strings; Flutes and Whistles; Bowed String; Single-Reed Woodwind; Percussion; Free Reed, Miscellaneous and Ancillary; Bagpipes, 1981-1983.
- Myers, Arnold, "The Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments," Galpin Society Journal (December 1981), XXX.
- Myers, Arnold, "Rendall Acquisition Increases Almost Unique Historic Collection to 1,000 Instruments" University of Edinburgh Bulletin (March 1981) XVII/3: 3.
- Christies Auction House catalogue, 4 July 1973 included part of Lyndesay Graham Langwill's collection of instruments.
- Melville-Mason, Graham. Catalogue of the Rendall Collection. Unpublished.
- Melville-Mason, Graham. Catalogue of the C.H.Brackenbury Memorial Collection. Unpublished.
- Blades, James. Drum Roll: a Professional Adventure from the Circus to the Concert Hall. London: Faber and Faber, 1977.
- Blades, James. Percussion Instruments and Their History. London: Faber and Faber [1970; rev. ed. 1984]
- Blades, James and Jeremy Montagu. Early Percussion Instruments from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. London: Oxford University Press [1976].
- Galpin Society. An Exhibition of European Musical Instruments. Edinburgh: Edinburgh International Festival, Reid School of Music Edinburgh University, 1968.
- Bate, Philip, "F.G.R.[Rendall] 1890-1953", Galpin Society Journal (1953) VI: 7-9.
- L.G. Langwill. The Bassoon and Contrabassoon. London: E. Benn, 1965.
- L.G. Langwill. An Index of Musical Wind Instrument Makers. Edinburgh, Lyndesay G. Langwill, 1960; rev. 2-6, 1962-1980.
- Bands: The Brass Band Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Trever Herbert, ed. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1991.
- Mary Reynolds, "Incurable Curator," The Trombonist, (1992, spring), 24-25.
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
National Museums of Scotland, Departments of History and Applied Art, European Art; Oriental Art; Africa, Americas, Pacific Art. Chambers Street (non-Scottish collections), Edinburgh EH1 1JF.
- Former National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland collection of about 120 instruments including fragments, mainly Scottish and European bagpipes, and harps, the most important of which are the Lamont and the Queen Mary harps, also included are bagpipe-making tools, music engraving tools, and a large archive, a major section of which concentrates on research materials on the history of the bagpipe in Scotland.
- Former Royal Scottish Museum collection of about 850 instruments, mainly African and Asian, also some European (including bagpipes) and Oceanic.
- see also the Scottish United Services Museum [below]
- Private collections incorporated within the museums are: the Ross-Glen Collection (bagpipes); Duncan Fraser Collection of Bagpipes; and the Jean Jenkins Collection acquired in 1980.
- Articles in the Proceedings of the Society and Antiquaries of Scotland.
- Jean Jenkins. Man and Music: A Survey of Traditional Non-European Musical Instruments. Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Museum, HMSO, 1983.
- Hugh Cheape. [Sections on bagpipes and harps], The Wealth of a Nation in the National Museums of Scotland, Jenni Calder, ed. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1989.
- Hugh Cheape with George Dalgleish, Elizabeth Wright, Jane Kidd. At Home: Ten Years of Collecting from Historic Scotland. Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, 1984. [Sections on piping collections.]
- Hugh Cheape with Gavin Sprott. "Pipes, Harps and Fiddles." Edinburgh: National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, 1976.
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments, University of Edinburgh, St. Cecilia's Hall, Niddry Street, Cowgate, Edinburgh EH1 1LJ. Web URL: http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/russell/
- John Barnes. "Some restoration problems in the Russell Collection" Studia Musico-Museologica. Bericht über das Symposium: Die Bedeutung, die optische und akustische Darbeitung und die Aufgabe einer Musikinstrumentensammlung, (1969) 117-25.
- John Barnes. "The Flemish instruments in the Russell Collection, Edinburgh", Colloquium. Restauratie problemen van Antwerpse klavecimbels, (Museum Vleeshuis, Antwerp, 1971) 35-9.
- Sidney Newman and Peter Williams. The Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments. [Edinburgh:] Edinburgh University Press [1968].
- Charlie Napier. A Brief Guide to the Russell Collection of Harpsichords and Clavichords. Edinburgh: Friends of St. Cecilia's Hall, 1981; repr. 1986.
- Grant O'Brien. "The 1764/83 Taskin harpsichord in the Russell Collection, Edinburgh", The Organ Yearbook, 5 (1974) 91-107.
- Grant O'Brien. "The Double-Manual Harpsichord by Francis Coston, London, c.1725", The Galpin Society Journal, 47 (March, 1994) 1-42.
- Grant O'Brien. "Stringing Materials and Gauges for Clavichords by I.C. Gerlach and H.A. and J.A. Hass", De Clavicordio. Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium/Atti del congresso internazionale sul clavicordo. Magnano, 9-11 September 1993, edited by Bernard and Susan Brauchli and Alberto Galazzo, (Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte, Turin, 1994) 123-35,
- Grant O'Brien. "The Clavichord by G.C. Rackwitz, Stockholm, 1796 -A Preliminary Study with a View to Possible Restoration," De Clavicordio. Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium/Atti del congresso internazionale sul clavicordo. Magnano, 21-23 September 1995, edited by Bernard and Susan Brauchli and Alberto Galazzo, (Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte, Turin, 1996).
- John Raymond. "St. Cecilia"s Hall and the Russell Collection", The Harpsichord and Fortepiano Magazine, 4, No. 4 (1987) 86-91.
- William R. Thomas and John J.K. Rhodes. "The octave clavichord (c1750) in the Russell Collection, Edinburgh", The Organ Yearbook, 5 (1974) 88-91.
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
Scottish United Services Museum, The Castle, Edinburgh EH1 2NG.
EXETER, Devon
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Department of Decorative Arts, Queen Street, Exeter, Devon EX4 3RX.
GOUDHURST, Kent
Finchcocks (Richard Burnett Collection of Historical Keyboard Instruments), Goudhurst, Kent, TN17 1HH.
- Richard and Katrina Burnett. Finchcocks: past & present. Goudhurst: Finchcocks, 1989.
- William Dow. The Finchcocks Collection. Goudhurst, 1990.
GLASGOW, Scotland
Art Gallery and Museum, Department of Archaeology, Ethnography and History, Kelvingrove, Glasgow G3 8AG.
- [Henry George Farmer]. Instruments of Music: History and Development [an exhibition]. Glasgow: Corporation of Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, 1941.
- Henry George Farmer, "The Glen Collection of Musical Instruments," Art Review, Glasgow, 1945.
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, including the Bernard Hague (1893-1960) Collection, University of Glasgow, Gilmorehill, Glasgow G12 8QQ. Web URL: http://www.gla.ac.uk/Museum/
- Galpin Society Journal XV p.93; XVII p.96, XVIII p.44, p.52; XXXVI p.113; XLII pp.133-134.
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
The Piping Centre, including the National Piping Museum, 30-34 McPhater Street, Glasgow G4 0HW.
GLOUCESTER, Gloucestershire
Gloucester Folk Museum, 99-103 Westgate Street, Gloucester GL1 2PG.
- "Bellfounding", an information sheet.
- Checklist of the Frampton Volunteers Collection.
HAILSHAM, East Sussex
Alice Schulmann-Frank Collection of Musical Instruments and the Priory Collection, Michelham Priory, Upper Dicker, Hailsham, East Sussex BN27 3QS.
Private collection loaned and incorporated with musical instruments in a general museum collection.
HALIFAX, West Yorkshire
Calderdale Museums & Arts, The Piece Hall, Halifax HX1 1RE, West Yorkshire; Shibden Hall, Lister's Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX3 6XG, and Bankfield Museum, Boothtown Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX3 6HG.
Shibden Hall: about 50 woodwind and brass instruments mainly used domestically, including an ophicleide by F. Pretty, London, early 19th c.; a square piano by Pohlmann, London and Halifax, 1769; pandean pipes set used by the local militia; early 19th c. mss. music owned by Shibden Hall occupant Ann Lister; pianola rolls, recordings and players.
Bankfield Museum: about 50 string and wind instruments and drums, including a collection of African sanzas and New Guinea drums brought to the museum by George Carline, curator from 1925-1952.
HATCHLANDS PARK nr. GUILDFORD, Surrey
Alec Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands Park, East Clandon nr. Guildford, Surrey GU4 7RT.
HERTFORD, Hertfordshire
Hertford Museum, 18 Bull Plain, Hertford, Herts. SG14 1DT
HOVE, Sussex
Hove Museum and Art Gallery, 19 New Church Road, Hove, Sussex BN3 4AB
HUDDERSFIELD, West Yorkshire
Tolson Memorial Museum, Ravensknowle Park, Wakefield Road, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire HD5 8DJ.
IPSWICH, Suffolk
Ipswich Museums & Galleries, High Street, Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 3QH
KEIGHLEY, West Yorkshire
Cliffe Castle Museum, Bradford Art Galleries and Museums Service. Spring Gardens Lane, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD20 6LH.
- Checklist (typescript) of the collection.
- Galpin Society Journal XIII p.13, p.68; XVII p.94, p.96; XVIII p.52, p.54; XXII p.97.
- Arnold Myers, "A slide tuba?" Galpin Society Journal (August 1989) XLII pp.127-128, Pl. 24.
KENT (North West)
Private collection.
KESWICK, Cumbria
Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, Station Road, Keswick, Cumbria CA12 4NF.
Private charitable trust.
- [The Richardson Rock, Bell and Steel Band] Geological Curator, II, no. 7 (Dec. 1979)
- [Leaflet: the museum's collection, printed by the museum]
- A.M. Till, "The Till Family Rock Band", Galpin Society Journal, XLII, pp.121-122, Pl. 19-23.
KIDDERMINSTER, Worcestershire.
Hereford and Worcester County Museum, Hartlebury Castle, Hartlebury, Kidderminster, Worcestershire DY11 7XZ.
KILMARNOCK, Ayrshire, SCOTLAND
Dean Castle, Dean Road, Kilmarnock, Scotland. Office: Kilmarnock & Louden District Museums, Dick Institute, Kilmarnock KA1 3BU.
LEEDS, West Yorkshire
Abbey House Museum, Abbey Road, Kirkstall, Leeds, West Yorkshire L55 3EH.
Municipal museum of social history: musical instruments incorporated within a general collection.
LEEDS, West Yorkshire
Leeds City Museum, Department of Ethnography, Calverley Street, Leeds LS1 3AA
LEICESTER, Leicestershire
Charles Moore Collection of Musical Instruments, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH.
4 piccolos, 6 flutes including a prototype brass one by Rudall & Rose, London, ca. 1850; 6 clarinets; 1 soprano saxophone; 1 bassoon; 2 french horns; 1 keyed bugle; 2 cornopeans; 6 cornets including the cornet Arban prototype by Courtois, Paris, ca. 1878; 2 trumpets; 2 tenor trombones; 1 bass trombone; 3 ophicleides, one of which has the Courtois mouthpiece earlier used by Samuel Hughes of the Cyfarthfa Band, see Merthry Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum; 1 euphonium; 1 bass tuba; 1 sousaphone, some electronic keyboards and harmoniums.
- S.J. Weston. A Catalogue of Instruments in the Charles Moore Collection. Leicester: Leicester University Music Department, 1981. (2nd edition with illustrations in preparation.)
- S.J. Weston. Samuel Hughes, Ophicleidist. Edinburgh, 1986.
- Checklists and details of new acquisitions are available on request from the curator.
LEWES, East Sussex
Anne of Cleves House Museum, MacDermott Collection of Sussex Church Music and Instruments, 52 Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1JA.
- K.H. MacDermott. Sussex Church Music in the Past. Chichester: More and Wingham, 1922.
- K.H. MacDermott. The Old Church Gallery Minstrels. London: SPCK, 1948.
LISKEARD: ST. KEYNE STATION, Cornwall
Paul Corin's Magnificent Music Machines, Mill House, St.Keyne Station nr. Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14 4SF
LIVERPOOL, Merseyside
Liverpool Museum, Decorative Arts Department, William Brown Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L3 8EN.
- Pauline Rushton, ed.: Catalogue of European Musical Instruments in Liverpool Museum. Liverpool: National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside, 1994. x, 182pp. ISBN 906367 68 9.
- The Rushworth & Dreaper Collection of Antique Musical Instruments and Historical Manuscripts. Liverpool: Rushworth & Dreaper Ltd. [n.d.; there were several editions].
- A leaflet "The Rushworth & Dreaper Permanent Colleciton of Antique Musical Instruments" [n.d.]
LONDON
British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG
- Department of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities: earliest: 2 Paleolithic bone whistles, France; 15 complete or fragmentary Bronze Age horns from Ireland, 1 trumpet mouthpiece from Essex.
- Department of Oriental Antiquities: about 50 instruments from China (drums, 4th c. B.C.), Japan, India, Tibet, and Islam (2 bone whistles, Iran, 9th-8th c. B.C.).
- Department of Egyptian Antiquitities: including plucked string and 5 harps or fragments, 2nd c. B.C.; end-blown flutes, 1st c. B.C.; (2nd c. B.C. to Roman times)
- Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities: 117 instruments, including auloi, Greece, 5th c. B.C.; over 40 sistra, bells, bronze horns, cymbals, representations of hydraulic organs, lute players, horn players, lyres (including one 5th c. B.C.), ca. 80 seals, ca. 80 terracottas, ca. 80 bronzes with representations. Greek vases depict many lyre and lute players.
- Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities: 178 instruments, 124 representations.
- Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities: Sutton Hoo lyre, 7th c., Warwick gittern.
- Department of Ethnography (recent ethnographic collections): see Museum of Mankind below.
Indexes that can be consulted in their department: General index of Japanese and Chinese paintings. Department of Oriental Antiquities. Subject index of Persian and Indian (mughal) paintings, Department of Oriental Antiquities.
- A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life. London: BM, 1908.
- R.A. Higgins, B.M. and R.P Winnington Ingram, "Lute Players in Greek Art", Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1965, pp. 62-71.
- Joan Rimmer. Ancient Musical Instruments of Western Asia. London: BM, 1969.
- R.D. Anderson. Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the B.M. III,: Musical Instruments. London: BM, 1976.
- British Museum Yearbook, ed., T.C. Mitchell. IV. Music and Civilization. London: BM, 1980
- [For an overview]: H.J. Braunholtz. Sir Hans Sloane and Ethnography. London: British Museum, 1970.
- The Raffles Gamelan; a Historical Note, W. Fagg, ed. London: British Museum, 1970.
- Peter Gloudesley. Report to the Museum of Mankind: Research. [London, 1986.] Typescript: 82 leaves. Pt. 1: Music in Peru - Creole and Andean; pt. 2: Documentation of Artisans in the Sierra: the Andean Harp, Luthier and Footloom.
LONDON
Fenton House, Hampstead Grove, London NW3.
- Raymond Russell. Catalogue of the Benton Fletcher Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments at Fenton House, Hampstead. London, 1957, rev.: Country Life for the National Trust, 1969. Fenton House, Hampstead. London: National Trust, 1978, rev. '81, 84, 1988. 14-17: "The Collections": [the musical instruments], pp. 14-17.
- Peter and Ann Mactaggart. "A Royal Ruckers: Decoration and Documentation History", The Organ Yearbook, XIV (1983), pp 78ff.
- [Raymond Russell.] A Catalogue of Early Keyboard Instruments: The Benton Fletcher Collection at Fenton House. London, National Trust, 1957, revs. afterwards by Trevor Pinnock, Andrew Garrett, Mimi Waitzman, 1986.
LONDON
Horniman Museum and Library, London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ. Independent charitable trust with specialized musical instrument collection.
- Adam Carse Collection of 320 European wind instruments was given to the museum in 1947 in memory of his son Edward Adam Carse who was killed in action in 1945. Carse taught composition at the Royal Academy of Music and was an organologist, researching and writing about the history of musical instruments.
- Percy A. Bull Collection of mainly stringed instruments from Europe, Africa and Asia, donated to the museum in 1948 by his widow.
- More than three hundred musical instruments, many of enthnomusicological interest, transferred from the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1956. Most were acquired in the 19th c. and some are described by Carl Engel in his catalogue.
- Dolmetsch Collection of about 100 wind, string, and keyboard instruments most from the 17th through the 18th c., formed by Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940). The Horniman Museum purchased the collection from the Dolmetsch family between 1981 and 1983.
- Wayne Collection of Concertinas purchased in 1996. 600+ concertinas and related instruments together with archival material.
- General collection, including the Frederick J. Horniman family instruments. This collection includes purchases and gifts of single instruments as well as smaller collections such as the Leslie J. Stephens Collection of 80 models of piano actions; a violin maker's tools; as well as regional ethnographic collections from, for example, the Belgian Congo, Morocco, and Nigeria; as well as instruments collected by Dr. A.C. Haddon, an early Advisory Keeper, and the late Keeper of Musical Instruments Jean L. Jenkins during field work in Nigeria, Dahomey, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Syria, Jordan, Soviet Central Asia and Bulgaria.
- [Carl Engel,] Science and Art Department, South Kensington Museum. Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ancient Musical Instruments MDCCCLXXII with Illustrations. London: John Strangeways, 1873.
- Carl Engel. Musical Instruments. with seventy-eight illustrations. Rev.ed. London: HM Stationery Office, 1908.
- Adam Carse. The Horniman Museum. A list of the instruments in the Adam Carse Collection of Musical Wind Instruments. London, 1947.
- [Adam Carse.] The Adam Carse Collection of Old Musical Wind Instruments. London, London County Council [1951].
- [Jean L. Jenkins.] Musical Instruments. London, London County Council [1958]; 2nd. ed 1970; 3rd ed. 1977.
- [E.A.K. Ridley.] Wind Instruments of European Art Music, London: Greater London Council [1974].
- Jean Jenkins and Paul Rovsing Olsen. Music and Musical Instruments in the World of Islam. London: World of Islam Festival Publishing Co., Ltd. [1976].
- [Frances Palmer] The Dolmetsch Collection of Musical Instruments exhibition catalogue. London: 1981.
- [Horniman] Museum Guide. London, 1988.
LONDON
Museum of London, London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN.
- Martin Holmes, "A Puritan's Virginal", Connoisseur, (July-Dec. 1959), vol. 144.
- W. Lee and D.W. Gordini, "The Unrecorded English Virginal", Connoisseur, vol. 178: 32ff.
- Eric Halfpenny, "William Bull and the English Baroque Trumpet", Galpin Society Journal (1962), XV: 18-27.
- Joseph Wheeler, "Further Notes on the Classic Trumpet", Galpin Society Journal (1965) XVIII:14-22.
- MauriceByrne, "The Goldsmith-Trumpet-makers of the British Isles", Galpin Society Journal (1966) XIX: 71-83.
- Halfpenny, "Early British Trumpet Mouthpieces", Galpin Society Journal (1967) XX: 80-81
- Halfpenny, "Smith, London", Galpin Society Journal (1968) XXI: 105-107.
- Halfpenny, "Four 17th c. British Trumpets", Galpin Society Journal (1969) XXII: 51-58
- Halfpenny, "Notes on Two Later British Trumpets", Galpin Society Journal (1971) XXIV: 79-83.
- John Webb, "The Billingsgate Trumpet", Galpin Society Journal (1988) XLI: 59-62
- English 17th c. keyboard music, Christopher Kite, on the White virginal.
- Recording of the Bull trumpet with the 1651 Dudley trumpet's mouthpiece, played by Crispian Steele-Perkins at St. Augustine's Church, 1986. EMI Records (UK).
LONDON
Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HT.
- David Rattray. Masterpieces of Italian Violin Making, 1620-1850 London: Royal Academy of Music, 1991.
- Strad (July 1991)
LONDON
Royal College of Music Museum of Instruments, Prince Consort Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2BS.
- George Donaldson. Catalogue of the Musical Instruments and Objects forming the Donaldson Museum [in] the Royal College of Music, London. London, 1899.
- Percy Colson, "Early Musical Instruments in the Donaldson Museum at the Royal College of Music," Connoisseur (June 1935) V.95: 351-344.
- George Dyson. Catalogue of Historical Musical Instruments, Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings", London: Royal College of Music, 1952.
- [Elizabeth Wells, et al, articles on the RCM Museum], Royal College of Music Magazine : (Christmas 1967) 63/3: 82-87; (Summer 1970) 66/2: 46-48; (Summer 1976) 72/2: 39-43; (Summer 1978) 74/2: 57-61; (Spring 1989) 86/1: 22-27; (Spring 1992) 89/1: 35-37; (Summer 1992) 89/2: 31-34; "Gift of the Hartley Collection ..., (Autumn 1992) 89/3: 41-43; (Spring, Summer, Autumn 1993) 90/1: 39-41, 90/2, 34-35, 90/3: 34-35; (Summer 1994) 91/2: 38-39.
- E. Wells, "An Early Stringed Keyboard Instrument: the Clavicytherium in the RCM, London," Early Music, (Oct. 1978) VI/4: 568.
- E. Wells, "The RCM Museum of Instruments," CIMCIM Newsletter (1982), X: 67.
- Royal College of Music Museum of Instruments Catalogue:
- Part I: E.A.K. Ridley. European Wind Instruments. London: Royal College of Music, 1982;
- Part II: Keyboard Instruments (in preparation).
- E. Wells, Guide to the Collection, London, 1984.
- Checklists in preparation; postcards, plans and technical drawings available.
LONDON
Private Collection.
Open: by appointment to visitors with a serious purpose. To apply, contact the Keeper of Musical Instruments, Horniman Museum and Library, London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ.
- The contrabass double-slide trombone ("King Kong") by Boosey & Co., London, illustrated in: Philip Bate. The Trumpet and Trombone. 2nd ed. London: Ernest Benn [1978].
LONDON
Royal Armouries, and the Jewel House, HM Tower of London EC3N 4AB.
LONDON
Victoria & Albert Museum.
- Carl Engel. Musical Instruments of All Countries. London, 1869.
- Carl Engel. Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum. London, 1870. (folio volume)
- Carl Engel. Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments in the South Kensington Museum Preceded by an Essay on the History of Musical Instruments. London, 1874.
- Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Musical Instruments: Vol. I. Raymond Russell. Keyboard Instruments. London, 1968.; Vol. II. Anthony Baines. Non-Keyboard Instruments. London, 1968.
- Peter Thornton. Musical Instruments as Works of Art. London, 1968; 2nd ed. 1982.
- Desmond Fitz-Gerald. Victoria and Albert Museum. The Norfolk House Music Room. London, 1973.
- Derek Adlam, "Restoring the Vaudry", Early Music (1976) IV, 3: 255ff.
- Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Musical Instruments. 2nd ed.: Vol. I. Howard Schott. Keyboard Instruments. London, 1985.
- James Yorke. Keyboard Instruments at the Victoria and Albert Museum. London, 1986.
LONDON
The Wallace Collection, Manchester Square, Marylebone, London W1M 6BN.
- General Guide.
- Guide to the Armouries (includes the musical instruments).
- Catalogue, Vol. I: Paintings; Vol. II: Arms and Armour.
MAIDSTONE, KENT
Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery, St. Faith's Street, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1LH.
MANCHESTER, Lancashire
Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
MANCHESTER, Lancashire
Henry Watson Historical Musical Instruments Collection, Royal Northern College of Music, 124 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9RD.
- Henry Watson. The Royal Manchester College of Music, Catalogue of the Henry Watson Collection of Musical Instruments. Manchester, 1906. [Only 2 copies are exant.]
MERTHYR TYDFIL, Mid Glamorgan, WALES
Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Brecon Road, Merthr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan, Wales CF47 8RE.
- Trevor Herbert and Arnold Myers, "Instruments of the Cyfarthfa Band," Galpin Society Journal, XLI (1988), 2-10.
- Trevor Herbert, "The Virtuosi of Merthyr," Llafur: The Journal of Welsh Labour History, V, 1 (1988), 60-69.
- Trevor Herbert, "The Repertory of a Victorian Provincial Brass Band," Popular Music, IX, 1 (1990), 117-132.
- Arnold Myers and Trevor Herbert, Catalogue of the European Wind and Percussion Instruments in the Cyfarthfa Castle Museum Collection. Mid Glamorgan, S.Wales: Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 1990.
- The Crawshays of Cyfarthfa. [Robert Thompson Crawshay founded the Cyfarthfa Band about 1840.]
MORPETH, Northumberland
Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum, Bridge Street, Morpeth, Northumberland NE61 1PJ
- some tunebooks can be purchased at the museum.
- W.A. Cocks. The Northumbrian Bagpipes, Their Development and Makes. Newcastle, 1933.
- W.A. Cocks. "Bagpipe" in Grove's Dictionary of Music, 5th ed.
- [Various publications of the] Northumbrian Piper's Society, Newcastle.
NEWARK-ON-TRENT, Nottinghamshire
Newark Museum, Appletongate, Newark, Notts. NG24 1JY.
- Christopher Paris. [Detailed inventory of the musical instruments collection.] 1991.
NEWBURY, Berkshire
Private collection in Berkshire. To enquire about an appointment, contact the Newbury District Museum, The Wharf, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 5AS
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Tyne and Wear
Hancock Museum, The University, Barras Bridge, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE2 4PT
NORTHAMPTON, Northamptonshire
Central Museum and Art Gallery, Social History Department, Guildhall Road, Northampton NN1 1DP.
NORTHLEACH, near CHELTENHAM, Gloucestershire
Keith Harding's World of Mechanical Music, High Street, Northleach nr. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL54 3EU.
NORWICH, Norfolk
St. Peter Hungate Church Museum, Princes Street, Norwich,Norfolk, NR3 1AE
NORWICH, Norfolk
Strangers Hall Museum, Charing Cross, Norwich, Norfolk NR2 4AL
OXFORD, Oxfordshire
Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH.
- Eric Halfpenny, "Two Oxford Trumpets", Galpin Society Journal (1963) XVI: 49-62.
- David D. Boyden. The Hill Collection of Musical Instruments in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum & W.E. Hill & Sons [1969].
- K.P. Wachsmann, "A Drum from Seventeenth Century Africa", Galpin Society Journal (1970) XXIII pp.97-103, Pl.xv.
- Working drawings of 19 of the instruments in the Hill Collection.
OXFORD
Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, St. Aldate's, Oxford OX1 1DB.
- Philip Bate Collection: 300 historic European orchestral woodwind instruments, given with the understanding that they would be available for use by students
- Reginald Morley-Pegge (-1972) Memorial Gift, 1974; brass instruments and library
- Miss Lloyd-Baker Collection (loan of 6 instruments depicted in Zoffany's portrait, "The Sharpe Family"
- Edgar Hunt Collection (purchase and gift), 1983; incl. descant and treble recorders by Bressan, London, ca. 1720
- Anthony Baines Collection (loan and gift); including the 17th c. cornett and cornettino originally in the Galpin Collection
- Jeremy Montagu Collection [part] (loan)
- Taphouse Collection (loan); 3 keyboard instruments including the harpsichord Haydn is said to have played when in Oxford to take his doctorate
- William C. Retford ( -1970) Memorial Collection of Bow-Making Tools and Bows (gift) 1972: 6 bows, including viol and viola d'amore bows by Edward Dodd
- Javanese gamelan Kyai Madu Laras (gift)
- Roger Warner Collection: 3 keyboard instruments
- Michael Thomas Collection: keyboard instruments including a harpsichord by Jean Goermans, Paris 1750; Tisseran, England, 1700; anon. Franco-Flemish hps., late 17th c
- Anthony Baines. The Bate Collection of Historical Wind Instruments; Catalogue of the Instruments. Oxford, 1976. Supplements: I. End-, notch-, & Duct-flutes, 1987.
- Jeremy Montagu. Checklist of the Collection. Oxford, 1988, updated annually.
- [Special exhibition catalogues, a new one each term]
- The Javanese Gamelan "Kyai Madu Laras". 3rd ed.
- "Instruments of the Bible."
- "The Edgar Hung Accession."
- "The Retford Gift."
- "Bassoon Reed Making."
- Jeremy Montagu, "Archives in the Bate Collection," Galpin Society Journal, XXXVII, 119.
- Bate Collection Guides: Flutes. 2nd. ed.; Reed Instruments, 2nd ed.; Brass Instruments, 2nd ed.; Percussion, 2nd ed.; String Instruments and Keyboards, 2nd ed.; Guided Tour of the Collection, 2nd ed.
- Christies Auction House, London, 16 December 1975, included duplicate instruments from the Bate Collection.
- J. Montagu. Keyboard Instruments. Bate Collection Demi-Catalogue no. 1. Oxford: Faculty of Music, Bate Collection [1993].
- Period Guides: "Mediaeval & Renaissance"; "Purcell to Handel". "Things to Look For" guided tour for children. 2nd ed. "Treasure Trail" (for young children).
- Plans and measured drawings for 4 recorders; 2 tabor pipes; 9 transverse flutes; 10 oboes; 7 clarinets; 2 bassoons.
2 cassette recordings of the gamelan in public concerts in 1987 and 989; and a 3rd cassette of a memorial concert for David Reichenberg.
OXFORD, Oxfordshire
Private Collection
European Folk instruments: Flutes & Whistles 212, Reeds 97, Brass 40, Strings 33, Idiophones 183, Membranophones 16, Misc. 6.
Non-European instruments: Flutes & Whistles 201, Reeds 104, Brass 68, Strings 99, Idiophones 393, Membranophones 92, Keyboards 1, Misc. 18
Also 136 instruments made for research and demonstration
- Musical Instruments of the Bible
- Making Medieval Percussion Instruments
- Some plans and measured drawings, list available on request.
OXFORD
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PP
- Anthony Baines. Bagpipes. Occasional Papers on Technology, 9. Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford [1960, 2nd ed. 1966, rev.ed. 1973, 1979].
- Hélène la Rue. A Whole Room for Music. Oxford, 1991.
- Computerized data base of musical instruments; and the sound archive and library.
PETERBOROUGH, Cambridgeshire
Peterborough City Museum and Art Gallery, Priestgate, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire PE1 1LF.
RICHMOND, Surrey
Ham House, Ham Street, Richmond, Surrey TW10 7RS
ROCHESTER, Kent
Guildhall Museum. High Street, Rochester, Kent ME1 1PY.
SAFFRON WALDEN, Essex
Saffron Walden Museum, Museum Street, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1JL.
SAINT ALBANS, Hertfordshire
St. Albans Organ Museum, 320 Camp Road, St. Albans, Herts. AL1 5PB; mailing address: 326 Camp Road.
SAINT HELIER, Jersey, Channel Islands
Jersey Museum, 9 Pier Road, Weighbridge, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands
SAINT KEANE STATION near LISKEARD, Cornwall
see SAINT KEANE STATION near LISKEARD, Cornwall
SHEFFIELD, Yorkshire
Sheffield City Museum, Social History Department, Weston Park, Sheffield S10 2TP; Kelham Island Industrial Museum, off Alma Street, Sheffield S3 8RY.
SHIPLEY, (SALTAIRE VILLAGE) West Yorkshire
Victorian Reed Organ & Harmonium Museum, Victoria Hall, Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire. Mailing address: 6 Albert Terrace, Saltaire Village, Shipley, West Yorkshire BD18 4PS
- Phil & Pam Fluke. Victorian Reed Organs and Harmoniums, the Collection of Phil & Pam Fluke: a description of those reed organs in our collection at the time of printing; also brief notes on each manufacturer. Saltaire, 1985 [with insert updating the collection].
- The Flukes, "William Hill Vocalion" Organ (Jan 1985), vol. 64, no. 251. [reprint article].
- The Flukes, "J.W. Sawyer, Leeds" Musical Opinion (June 1985) vol. 108, no 1291. [reprint article]; and various other articles.
SKIPTON, North Yorkshire
Craven Museum, Town Hall, High Street, Skipton, North Yorks. BD23 1AH
SPAULDING, Lincolnshire
, see Whaplode St. Catherine, nr. Spaulding for the Museum of Entertainment.
STROUD, Gloucestershire
Stroud District (Cowle) Museum, Lansdown, Stroud, Glos. GL5 1BB
SWINDON, Wiltshire
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Bath Road, Swindon, Wilts. SN1 4BA
TAUNTON, Somerset
Somerset County Museum, Taunton Castle, Castle Green, Taunton, Somerset TA1 4AA.
TORQUAY, South Devon
Torquay Museum, 529 Babbacombe Road, Torquay, South Devon TQ1 1HG
- Ulric Daubeny. Orchestral Wind Instruments, Ancient and Modern. London: Reeves, 1920. (Features instruments in his collection)
- Typescript partial checklist available on request.
TWICKENHAM, Middlesex
Kneller Hall Museum, Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Road, Twickenham, Middlesex TW2 7DY Military music school with collection of musical instruments collected from various military experiences and parts of the Empire.
WARRINGTON, Cheshire
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, Bold Street, Warrington, Cheshire WA1 1JG
WARWICK, Warwickshire
Warwick Castle Ltd., Stratford Road, Warwick CV34 4QU
WARWICK, Warwickshire
Warwickshire Museum, Market Hall, Market Place, Warwick CV34 4SA
- Eric Halfpenny. Double Reeds for Woodwind Instruments. Warwickshire Museum Publication, 1977.
- Maurice Byrne, "Eric Halfpenny, 1906-79, an Obituary," Galpin Society Journal (1980) XXXIII: 1-7.
WHAPLODE ST. CATHERINE nr. SPAULDING, Lincolnshire
Museum of Entertainment, incorporating Rutland Cottage Music and Fairground Museum, Millgate, Whaplode St. Catherine nr. Spaulding, Lincs. PE12 6SF.
WIGAN, Lancashire
The Rimmer Collection, Wigan Heritage Service, The History Shop, Rodney Street, Wigan, Greater Manchester WN1 1DQ
WINCHESTER, Hampshire
Hampshire County Museum Service, Chilcomb House, Chilcomb Lane, Winchester SO23 8RD.
- Illustrated Handbook to the William Herbert Allen Bequest, part 2. Winchester, 1945. (10 pp.)
YORK, North Yorkshire
York Castle Museum, The Eye of York, York, North Yorks. YO1 1RY.
- G.B. Wood. Musical Instruments in the York Castle Museum. York, 1950.
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