Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments


REID CONCERT HALL MUSEUM of INSTRUMENTS
What to see, Opening Times and Map		 (3812) Saxhorn basse in C, 4-valve (Fischer, Paris c 1860) (1604) Cello (Dewar, Scotland, late 18th or early 19th century) (3606) Serpent (Baudouin, Paris, c 1820)
            
 
ST CECILIA'S HALL MUSEUM of INSTRUMENTS
What to see, Opening Times and Map

The Friends of St Cecilia's Hall and Museum

 (4329) Double-manual harpsichord (Jean Goermans/Pascal Taskin, Paris, 1764/83-84)
 
Contact, Enquiries and Special Visits :: The Collection :: What We Do :: Courses of Study in Musical Instrument Research :: Postgraduate Research Degrees including doctoral studies in Organology :: Education Project
 
Early music concerts at St Cecilia's Hall :: The Georgian Concert Society October 2011 - March 2012
 
Brief Lists of All the Instruments in the Collection with links to images and descriptions
 
The Catalogue
 
Musical Instruments at Your Fingertips: explore the Collection !
 
Clarinets in our Collection Web Guide
 
The Demonstrations of instruments in the Collection with sounds of instruments being played (selection)
PUBLICATIONS
  • NON-KEYBOARD BOOKS:
    UK Pricelist
    Overseas Pricelist
  • Sir Nicholas Shackleton Collection
  • Violin Making in Scotland, exhibition handbook
  • City of Edinburgh Band 1925-2005
  • Making a Natural Trumpet
  • Sidney Newman Remembered
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  • WORKSHOP DRAWINGS:
    woodwind and brasswind
    keyboard and stringed instruments
  • Keyboard instrument books
  • RECORDING: Plucked Instruments

  • Photography Service
  • Addenda and Corrigenda to EUCHMI Publications
    •    RESEARCH: Brasswind acoustics and taxonomy :: British brasswind history   History of the Reid Concert Hall and the John Donaldson Collection :: History of St Cecilia's Hall :: Last Year's Annual Report :: Events Organised by the Collections since 1980
    (1054) Set of pipes, bellows blown with chanter, bass and tenor drones and a regulator (Hugh Robertson, Edinburgh, 1793-4) (2485) Cornopean (Charles Pace, London, 1834-53, probably c 1845) (303) Mandurina (Probably Vinaccia, Naples, early 18th century) (1451) Echo cornet (F. Besson, London, probably 1882) (1514) Kora [bridge-harp or harp-lute (miniature)] (Bathurst, Gambia, c 1970) (3280) Natural trumpet in E-flat (Hofmaster, London, c 1760) (334) Viola (Richard Duke, London, 1779) (2515) Wagner tuba in Bb (Alexander, Mainz, early 1930s) (1516) Dundin [talking drum or mother drum] (Ibadan, Nigeria: Yoruba tribe, 1966) (883) Bass horn in C, 3 keys (W. Sandbach, London, c 1830) (768) Guitar, 6-string (attributed to C.F. Martin, before 1840) (203) Orchestral hand horn, master crooks and couplers (W. Sandbach, London, 1810-1830) (298) Terz guitar, 6-string (early 19th century) (3327) and (3328) Pair of kettledrums: 20-inch and 21-inch, hand tuning (probably England, early or mid 18thcentury) (1584) Cittern (Europe, early to mid 18th century) (3322) Cor anglais in F, 10-key (Triébert, Paris, c 1825) (2101) Rabab [spike fiddle] and bow (Kelantan, northeast coast of West Malaysia, c 1977) (2161) Trompe Dauphine [hunting horn] in D (Le Brun, Paris, 1721) (2929) Contrabass serpent (Wood, Huddersfield, c 1840) (4224) Clarsach (Briggs, Glasgow, 1922)
    EUCHMI is a contributor to Europeana Europeanathrough
    Link to database of 45,000 musical instruments in nine leading European museums
    Link to The Galpin Society for the study of musical instruments [with links to publications about musical instruments]
    Link to CIMCIM, the International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections [with links to other collections and museums]
    Link to Music in the University of Edinburgh
    Link to other Edinburgh University museums and galleries
    Link to The University of Edinburgh website
    Link to The Georgian Concert Society [with programme of concerts at St Cecilia's Hall using early keyboard instruments from the Raymond Russell and Rodger Mirrey Collections]
    Link to Edinburgh Renaissance Band [with programme of concerts at St Cecilia's Hall using historical instruments]

    Welcome page photographs by Antonia Reeve (non-keyboard) and Joe Rock (keyboard)

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