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Bulletin No. 43 November - Novembre 2000 Comite International des Musees et Collections d'Instruments de Musique Comite Internacional de Museos y Colecciones de Instrumentos Musicales CIMCIM International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections President Dr Eszter Fontana, Director, Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Universitiit Leipzig, Tiiubchenweg 2c, Leipzig D-04103, Germany. Telephone +49 341 2142121. Fax +49 341 2142135. E-mail [email protected] Vice President Sumi Gunji, Professor Emeritus, Kunitachi College of Music, 1-7-7 Ikebukuro, 170 Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Japan . Telephone and fax +81 3 5396 5183. E-mail [email protected] Secretary Corinna Weinheimer, Ringve Museum, Pb 30641Ade, N-7441 Trondheim, Norway. Telephone +47 7392 2411 . Fax +47 7392 0422. E-mail [email protected] Treasurer Margaret Birley, Department of Musical Instruments, Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, London, SE23 3PQ, UK. Telephone +44 208 699 1872. Fax +44 208 291 5506. E-mail [email protected] World-Wide Web URL: http:Jiwww.icom.orglcimciml Bulletin No. 43 November - novembre 2000 Report of the CIMCIM meeting in Handel Haus. Visits to the Handel Museum and Markneukirchen the conservation workshop were included. The musical instrument collection is displayed in the The 2000 annual conference of CIMCIM was Marktschlosschen. Included in the exhibition is held 14-22 September in Leipzig, an educational programme for schools where Markneukirchen, (Germany) and Prague (Czech some of the mysteries of acoustics are explained. Republic). 43 delegates from 18 countries A concert in the Marktkirche on an organ by attended the meeting . With the generous support Georg Reichel (1664) completed the visit to of ICOM-Germany it was possible to invite Halle. young professionals from various museums that so far have not been represented at a CIMCIM The conference then travelled to conference. Markneukirchen, Vogtland, situated in the so called "Musikwinkel" (the music corner). The The conference started in Leipzig at the Musikwinkel earned its name because of its long "Musikinstrumenten Museum der Universitat tradition in instrument making: around the turn Leipzig" where two temporary exhibitions were of the last century about 80% of the world in the focus: one to honour the 250'11 anniversary production of musical instruments came from of the death of the composer Johann Sebastian this region. The town is still dominated by Bach and one to celebrate the 300"' anniversary musical instrument workshops, and the of the invention of the piano. Amongst the participants visited several of them. The town various attractions were six instruments by also hosts the department for instrument making Bartolomeo Cristofori, the inventor of the piano. of the University of Applied Sciences in In the middle of the room two precious Zwickau. The students, coming from many instruments in cases decorated with chinoiserie: countries get both a traditional education tutored a harpsichord and a fortepiano (both from 1726) by the local craftsmen and scientific lectures beautifully exhibited in the newly renovated hall using modern technology such as computerised of the museum. Furthermore the delegates modal analyses. The Acoustic Research Centre participated in a session for children that took in Zwota, which was visited by the delegates, is place in the well equipped educational room of also involved in the educational programme. The the museum. This room is integrated into the musical instrument museum with its resources of exhibition and open to all visitors . local and international instruments stands for the historical education. This could be seen as a During an excursion to the Handel Haus in Halle master example of the interaction between the participants were informed about the plans museums and craftsmanship. for a new exhibition hall for the musical instrument collection near the premises of the Therefore it was almost mandatory that the conference paper session addressed the theme marvellous collection of William Lobkowitz at "Musical Instrument Collections and musical his castle in Nelahozeves. instrument making - interaction in history and in the future". Heidrun Eichler, Markneukirchen Further excursions to Zdar and Sazava to see the opened the session with a presentation of the exhibition "Fortepiano 300", to the Antonin Musical Instrument Museum Markneukirchen Dvorak Museum and an exhibition about Zdenek with emphasis on the topic. The other Fibich concluded this year's highly successful contributions were: meeting. Brigitte Bachmann Geiser, Switzerland: Musical Corinna Weinheimer Instruments at the Bern Historical Museum Reflecting the Musical Culture of the City and the Canton of Bern. Minutes of the CIMCIM Business Meeting, Frank Bar, Germany: 30 Years After- Towards Markneukirchen, Hotel Schwarzbachtal, 19.9.2000 a New Permanent Exhibition of Musical Instruments in the Germanisch es Present: Brigitte Bachmann Geiser (Switzerland), Nationalmuseum Niirnberg. Frank P. Bar (Germany), Margaret Birley (UK), Sylvie Douce de la Salle (France), Heidrun Eichler Bohuslav Cizek, Czech Republic: Musical (Germany) , Oguz Elbas (Turkey), Martin Elste Instrument Building and the Prague Collection. (Germany) , Eszter Fontana (Germany) , Tatjana Tatyana Fomina, Uzbekistan: The Applied Art Fomina (Uzbekistan), Birgit Heise (Germany), Museum of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Hannele Hentula (UK), Cynthia Adams Hoover Alicja Knast, Poland: The Museum of Musical (USA), Peter Andreas Kjeldsberg (Norway), Alicja Instruments in Poznan, Poland Knast (Poland), Vladimir Koshelev (Russia), John Vladimir Koshelev, Russia: Fabrication of Koster (USA), Helene La Rue (UK), Tom Lerch Musical Instruments in St. Petersburg in the 18th (Germany), Laurence Libin (USA), Fred Lipsett Century and the Museum of Musical (Canada), Jesmael Mataga (Zimbabwe), Ken Moore Instruments. (USA), Arnold Myers (UK), Klara Radnoti Klaus Martius, Germany: The Oldest Preserved (Hungary), Zami Ravid (Israel), Christiane Rieche Violas of the Graslitz/Vogtland Violin Making (Germany), Gabriele Rossi Rognoni (Italy), Marlowe Sigal (USA), Gerhard Stradner (Austria), Bradley Tradition. Strauchen (UK), Lisbet Torp (Denmark), Ioana Jesmael Mataga, Zimbabwe: Preservation of Ungureanu (Italy), Corinna Weinheimer (Norway). African Traditional Instruments: an Interactive Approach. I. Welcoming Address Klara Radn6ti, Hungary: Musical Instrument Eszter Fontana, CIMCIM President, welcomed the Collecting and Musical Instrument Making. delegates to the meeting, especially those who could Gabriele Rossi-Rognoni, Italy: The attend for the first time. She thanked Heidrun Reconstruction of the "Quintetto Mediceo" by Eichler, the director of the Musikinstrumenten Antonio Stradivari (1690). Markneukirchen and her staff for organising this meeting . She also thanked all the supporters who The post conference tour went to Prague. On the made it possible for so many new and young way through Bohemia workshops and schools delegates to come. Her thanks went to: ICOM for instrument making were visited in Graslitz Germany , the Saxonian Ministry for Science and Art and Luby. In Prague the members of the (Dresden), the Saxonian State Authority for Museum Affairs (Chemnitz), the Office of the District committee were shown the new housing for the President (Vogtland), the Cultural Centre (Vogtland) music museum comprising the Music History and the Municipality of Markneukirchen. Archive, the Musical Instruments Division, the Bedfich Smetana Museum and the Antonfn 2. Regrets of absence: Dvorak Museum. It will be situated in the Carmelle Begin (Canada), Jim Fricke (USA) , Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Karmelitska Florence Getreau (France), Goran Grahn (Sweden) , street. The two first divisions will be moved to Sumi Gunji (Japan) , Friedemann Hellwig (Germany), the new building in the course of 2001 . The Rudi Hopfner (Austria), Beryl Kenyon de Pascual participants also got the opportunity to visit the (Spain), Birgit Kjellstrom (Sweden), Michael Lea (Australia), Monika Lustig (Germany), Jeremy 2 Montagu (UK), Sisir Mukherjee (India), Kazue Counts of the number of accesses to the pages of full Nakamizo (Japan), Catherine Megumi Ochi (Japan) , texts of publications on the CIMCIM website were Anne-Marie Osterberg (Sweden), Konstantin Restle scrutinised. The CIMCIM welcome page receives (Germany), Nick Shackleton (USA), Gary Sturm circa 10000 hits per year, 'Technical Drawings of (USA), Rob van Acht (the Netherlands), William Musical Instruments' receives circa 9500 hits per Waterhouse (UK), John Watson (USA) and Elizabeth year, and the 'International Directory of Musical Wells (UK) . Instrument Collections' menu page receives circa 4000 hits per year. Hits for other pages are lower. 3. Minutes of the CIMCIM Business Meeting in The number of accesses to the pages will be higher Paris, Il June 1999 than these figures , since accesses to cached pages are The minutes, published in the CIMCIM Bulletin No . not recorded by the server. 39 were approved by the meeting. The group discussed the possibility of producing a CD use as an official CIMCIM present, and the 4. Treasurer's Report possibility of a joint CIMCIM imprint for a As reported in CIMCIM Bulletin No. 39, due to the forthcoming publication on Cristofori. generosity of its creditors CIMCIM paid no expenses Arnold Myers during the financial year 1998-1999, and therefore during the financial year ending September 2000, the 5.2 CIMCIM Conservation Committee was liable for the costs of printing
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