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]

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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 . 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 (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 (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 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 and Present at the meeting were Peter Andreas posting CIMCIM Bulletins and other material Kjeldsberg, Hannele Hentula, John Koster, Tom published since October 1998 . Lerch and Corinna Weinheimer (co-ordinator) . A The subvention received from !COM for the final draft version of the Guidelines for the care of committee amounted to £327.43. The committee also musical instruments in Non-specialist Museums will benefited from the generosity of two anonymous be published on the CIMCIM web site by the end of donors during the current financial year, who gave the year. After a trial period it will be discussed £766.17 towards the cost of CIMCIM publications whether to prepare a printed version. and £597.01 , to be spent at the discretion of the Corinna Weinheimer Board. As of 13 September 2000 , the balance of the CIMCIM account was £8,056.49 and the balance of 5.3. CIMCIM Documentation the US account was 1816.02 US dollars. Present at the meeting were Margaret Birley, Silke Margaret Birley Berdux, Sylvie Douce de Ia Salle, Eszter Fontana, Ken Moore, Arnold Myers, Christiane Rieche, 5. Report from the working groups Helene !a Rue and Gabriele Rossi-Rognoni The theme of the short meeting was inventories of 5.1 CIMCIM Communications musical instruments. At the meeting in Paris in 1999 The CIMCIM Communications Working Group met the working group agreed on comparing different in Markneukirchen, Germany on September 18th inventory schemes. This task was taken over by 2000. Present were Arnold Myers (Co-ordinator), Patrice Verrier, Paris. Some of the participants were Margaret Birley, Sylvie Douce de la Salle, Eszter not aware that a draft on the same subject has already Fontana, Ken Moore, Christiane Rieche, and been published in Bulletin No. 14. The further work Gabriele Rossi-Rognoni. The Group reviewed of the group will now be to compare the old proposal CIMCIM's electronic communications: the public with the new . website, the moderated e-mail list CIMCIM-L, and Christiane Rieche the distribution of the CIMCIM Bulletin by e-mail and the Web to members. 6. Future meetings The Group noted that the web page 'Technical The meeting in 2001 will take place in Barcelona, at Drawings of Musical Instruments in Public the 19'h General Conference and 20'h General Collections of the World' had recently been Assembly of ICOM , from the 1" to the 6'h July. The augmented with details of drawings of a further 152 theme for the ICOM conference will be: "Managing instruments. Change: the Museum Facing Economic and Social The Group noted that CIMCIM would acquire the Challenges" . For CIMCIM a joint meeting with electronic publication rights to "The Care of Historic ICOM Archeology (ICMA) and ICOM Egyptology Musical Instruments" when the book had been in (CIPEG) is planned. The theme for the CIMCIM print for three years; Arnold Myers would investigate paper session will be: "Musical Instruments on the feasibility of mounting the publication on the Display : Mounting, Security , Labelling". See also the Web. Call for Papers in this Bulletin.

3 For the year 2002 CIMCIM was invited by the 8. Closing remarks St.Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music. The president, Eszter Fontana thanked Arnold Myers, On behalf of CIMCIM the president thanked Mr. Edinburgh for his tireless work on the CIMCIM Web Koshelev. She will get in touch with the ICOM site and his other engagements in the welfare of national committee of Russia for the further planning CIMCIM. She also thanked the Board for their work. of the meeting. She thanked Christiane Rieche, Halle for organising For the following years there were suggestions to a splendid day in Halle and she thanked Heidrun meet in Seattle, USA and in Ankara, Turkey . Eichler for a wonderfully organised and very interesting conference. The meeting heartily agreed. 7. Any other business Corinna Weinheimer

7.1 Annual dues On behalf of the CIMCIM board Martin Elste Elections to the new board reported on a change of the annual dues for CIMCIM membership and subscription: Call for nominations CIMCIM members are urged to send names of a) CIMCIM members subscription (valid only with proposed candidates for the slate of CIMCIM ICOM membership): rate £10 or USD 16 (for North American members) officers to serve from 2001 to 2004. Please send suggestions to nominating committee members b) CIMCIM co-opted members subscription (valid for Peter Andreas Kjeldsberg (e- mail: individuals from developing countries who work in [email protected], fax: +47 73 public collections of musical instruments): rate fixed 92 04 22) or Cynthia Adams Hoover (e-mail: at the discretion of the board [email protected], fax: + 1 202 786-2883) by DECEMBER 31, 2000. c) CIMCIM publication subscription (for individuals By ICOM and CIMCIM statutes, members of without ICOM membership): 150% of the the board may serve for no more than two subscription rate, currently £15 or USD 24 (for consecutive three-year terms. Thus, officers North American members) , Margaret Birley Sumi Gunji (Vice-President) and Margaret Birley remarked that the subscription renewal form has to be (Treasurer) as well as Advisory Members Martin revised and offered to do that. Elste and John Koster will be retiring. The 7.2 Forthcoming elections to the board following current Board members have The Board suggested Cynthia Adams Hoover and expressed willingness to have their names put Peter Andreas Kjeldsberg for the election Committee. forward for a second three-year term: Eszter This was approved by the meeting. More information Fontana, Germany (President), Corinna about the forthcoming elections appears below. Weinheimer, Norway (Secretary), and Advisory Member Carmelle Begin, Canada. Nominations 7. 3 Report on the Piano 300 exhibition at the are also needed for Vice-President, Treasurer, Smithsonian Institute, Washington and at least two Advisory Members. Candidates Cynthia Adams Hoover reports on the exhibition of must be voting members in good standing (see the Smisthonian Institution, Washington USA to below*). Wide geographic representation is celebrate the 300'h anniversary on the piano and encouraged. thanked the Musical Instrument Museum in , Italy for lending their piano by Bartolomeo Cristofori for this exhibition. The nominating committee proposes the This year's event is quite unique since there are following timetable: celebrations of many kinds at many museums around 2000 December 31 : Nominations to Peter the world. For the conference in 2001 Cynthia Andreas Kjeldsberg or Cynthia Adams Hoover Adams Hoover suggested a discussion round with all 2001 January-February: Slate determined, ballot those whose museums were involved in any kind of prepared celebration of the invention of the piano for March: Ballot sent to members with ballot return exchanging experiences. due April 15 . She warmly invites members to visit the exhibition. Only voting members in good standing can propose or vote for candidates (see below*)

4 July 2-7: New board takes office at the end of locations :­ ICOM 2001 in Barcelona. http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/pics/GAHN­ recorder_t.gif (thumbnail) *Voting members in good standing http://www .music.ed. ac. uk/euchmi/pics/GAHN­ In order to qualify to vote and to serve as an recorder.gif (medium resolution) officer, you must be a member in good standing in ICOM (ICOM dues must be paid for the year Description of the instrument: of the election) and have indicated to ICOM that Ivory treble recorder in three sections. you wish to be a voting member of CIMCIM Total length: 501 mm (Remember that you can vote as a designated Signature: I. B. Gahn + monogram I. B.G. representative of an Institutional Member). Ornaments: vine leaves and birds. All joints are ornamented. The instrument was stolen at the end of 1999. Technical Drawings Arnold Myers

Earlier this year the CIMCIM Microfiche In the Czech Republic twelve musical Project advanced significantly with the instruments were stolen in the latter half of July publication by MMF of the first supplement to this year. They were keyboard instruments the original set of drawings on microfiche. belonging to the museum of Czech Music (part The page "Technical Drawings of Musical of the National Museum), which were stored in Instruments in Public Collections of the World" a depository outside Prague. We draw the on the CIMCIM website has been updated to attention of CIMCIM members to the fact that include the new material. The original and the present possessors, who acquired the supplementary lists have been integrated, and instruments illegally, may be expected to offer now give details of some 664 drawings the instruments for sale to some museum outside published by 26 museums arranged by the Czech Republic or to a private collector. instrument type. See: The following instruments were stolen: http: I lwww .icom.org/cimcim/iwd.html 1. Upright piano (Leopold Sauer) sign. 1589 E As well as providing information about the 2. Pyramid piano (A. Hiet) sign. 1345 E microfiche publications, the web page can be 3. Square pianoforte (name unreadable) sign. used to identify instrument drawings for those 591 E who wish to order them individually from the 4. Positive organ (anonymous) sign. 1348 E originating museums. CIMCIM is grateful to 5. Positive organ-table (anon.) sign. 459 E Rob van Acht of the Hague Gemeentemuseum, 6. Physharmonica (Diirr) sign. 1576 E Netherlands, for steering this project and making 7. Harmonium (Kohn und Co.) sign. 1571 E the information available. 8. Harmonium (Huller) sign. 1580 E Arnold Myers 9. Square pianoforte (Meyer & Meyer) sign. 1586 E 10. Physharmonica (Richter) sign. 1574 E Thefts reported to CIMCIM 11. Harmoniton sign. 662 E 12. Physharmonica (anonymous) sign. 1572 E A member of CIMCIM has unfortunately had an Photographs of the instruments and of the instrument stolen from their museum - a identifying markings of the makers have been decorated ivory recorder by Gahn. For security provided to Interpol and the Museum of Czech reasons, the museum wishes to be anonymous, Music in Prague (Dr. Cizek or Dr. Hallova) will so if you have any information which might help of course be glad to provide further information lead to the recovery of the instrument, please at the address: Novotneho lavka 1, 110 00 Praha send it to Corinna Weinheimer, CIMCIM 1, Czech Republic, telephone/ fax +420 2 secretary, address see above and she will 22220082 or telephone +420 2 57320060 forward it to the owner. Marketa Hallova Pictures can be viewed using a Web browser at

5 Announcements of a piano - the aim was 300 drawings and they were all displayed in the reception hall in the ICOMUMAC museum. ICOM's new International Committee for Piano items were sold in the Museum's shop. University Museums and Collections (UMAC) The Executive Council of ICOM at its meeting It was a family day with the coffee shop open so on 8 - 9 June 2000 in Paris accepted the the visitors could enjoy their lunch, dinner or establishment of a new provisional International simply eat a delicious cake while listening to Committee on University Museums for a period their hopeful youngsters. of three years. President of the committee is Peter Stanbury. The arrangement was brought to a conclusion The new Committee will have its first formal with a "Pianocafe- klaver ala carte" on Sunday meeting at the ICOM Conference in Barcelona evening. The audience was free to pick a music in July 2001. At that meeting the aims and the piece from a well-composed piano menu. To constitution will be discussed and an executive present the different pieces professional pianists board elected. It is expected also to have the from all genres were there to pop up whenever first conference papers presented and an their music piece was called out from the excursion. Please mark the dates 1 - 6 July 2001 audience. in your diary. For any further information please contact Ringve Museum is applying to The Guinness Peter Stanbury, Museums, Collections & Book of Records for having the longest piano Heritage, Vice Chancellor's Office. Macquarie concert and for most drawings of , University, NSW, 2109, Australia. Fax: +61 2 everything done in two days. 9850 7565, [email protected] Tone Fegran

Report from the Europiano Congress 2000 Ringve Museum, Trondheim Cavalese! Italy - Site of Europiano Congress Norway's national museum of music and musical 2000 instruments - Ringve Museum celebrated the In June, the Europiano Congress 2000 for piano 300th birthday of the piano, with 300 pianists technicians, manufacturers, repairers and tuners and 40 consorts on four platforms in just two took place in Cavalese, a small and charming days. town in the Val di Fiemme which is part of the Dolomites. It became notorious in February This music happening was a result of a co­ 1998 when twenty people were killed as an U.S. operation between Trondheim Community Music Marine jet severed a cable car line. and Cultural School, the music department of various high schools, the university The reason for choosing Cavalese becomes (conservatory), professional piano players, piano obvious when one knows the fact that the Val di teachers and Ringve Museum. Fiemme has for centuries been a well-known spot for resonance wood. Since about 1100 the Place: Ringve Museum, Date: Saturday 30. wood property in the large valley has been September 10- 15, Sunday 1. October 11 - 20 managed by the local Magnifica Communita di Programme: Fiemme, a kind of co-operative business owned Piano concerts from 4 stages with 300 pianists by the inhabitants of the valley from which from 6 - 60 years old. many piano and violin makers obtain their wood Piano Fairy-tales about how Bach composed the for soundboards. In fact, one third of the piece Goldberg Variations. soundboards in modern European pianos derive Piano-Guided tour - special attention was given from the Ciresa Company. It is situated in the to the importance of the piano in music history. neighbouring village Tesero, located 1,000 Piano drawings and paintings - in the children's metres above sea-level. E. Ciresa & C. was room everyone could make their own drawings established in 1952 as a maker of harmoniums

6 and piano keyboards, yet with the economic with regard to the pianist's control of pianissimo decline of this business, the company changed playing and the speedy adjustment of the touch during the 1970s its direction and is now solely weight to the individual wish of the pianist as producing soundboards made of wood from the well as easy maintenance. big forests of Fiemme Valley and Paneveggio Park nearby. Up to now some 60,000 pianos Piano making has, as everywhere in Europe, have been equipped with soundboards by Ciresa. become almost a rarity. In Italy there is one They supply more than fifteen piano factories all other piano manufacturer, Schulze Pollmann over the world, among which are top firms such (despite this German name) of Bolzano, who as Bosendorfer and Fazioli. The spruce planks produces some 400 instruments per year, and are naturally seasoned on the timber yard for both Fazioli and Schulze Pollmann use actions approximately one year before the actual made by Renner of Stuttgart. manufacturing process takes place. This involves All the other pianos sold in Italy come from a second seasoning in a modern climatic oven in abroad, and it is Yamaha which is sold most. which the small planks are heat-treated with The Europiano Association has approximately moderate temperatures in order not to damage five-hundred members most of which are piano the internal structure of the tone-wood. After tuners and piano makers, three-hundred of purification from knots, flaws and other defects whom attended the conference. Europiano as of the fibre, the soundboards are finished such is the umbrella organisation of the national according to the plans of each customer. Fazioli, piano tuners associations. Their Italian group, however, chooses to obtain the finished yet not e.g., the Associazione Italiana Accordatori glued-up planks . This young Italian piano Riparatori Pianoforti, consists of hundred-and­ company in the little village of Sacile near fifty members which make up approximately and close to the Aviano air base is 15 % of all piano tuners and technicians in Italy. owned by a maker of office furniture who To join the group a test has to be passed in inherited his father's business. A trained pianist which the applicant has to demonstrate his or her himself, Paolo Fazioli put all his dreams of craftsmanship. Knowledge of historical tunings, uncompromising piano making into reality. At however, is not required. Founded after World the factory, the company produces with a staff War II, Europiano convened for the first time in of twenty-four between seventy and eighty Berlin in 1965. Since 1995 the association has instruments annually. They are examples of the its own booth at the Frankfurt Musikrnesse. highest craftsmanship and elegant and delicate finishing, even if some think of these pianos as Several papers at the Cavalese conference not particularly individual in terms of sound. featured recent research, e. g. on the analysis of Only grands are produced; six models with a piano string and piano mechanism (by Hajime length from 156 em to 308 em are available. Hayshida of Yamaha) and on the analysis and The largest model has, as a speciality, a fourth synthesis of piano sounds (by a team from the pedal with which the pianist can shorten the way University of Padova). An exhibition of modern the hammer does, thus acting similarly to the pianos and a series of concerts complemented left pedal of a modern upright and producing a the congress proper. Despite the belief in particularly soft, yet altogether strong sound. A technical progress, a replica by the Osaka piano recent optional feature of Fazioli is the maker Nobuo Yamamoto of the Cristofori introduction of the so-called "Magnetic Balance pianoforte made in 1726 and now in the Leipzig Action" in which the touchweight is adjustable Musikinstrumenten-Museum seem to have to the preference of the pianist. In this action, attracted the most attention of all the instruments invented by Evert Snel and Hans Velo of the exhibited. The time has past when piano makers Netherlands, a pair of mutually attracting seem to be interested in modern developments magnets are active at the front-end of the key only. Instead there is a defi nite, if still modest, lever and a pair of mutually repelling magnets interest in the piano sound of the past. The are active at the rear-end of the key lever. Yamamoto replica has a sound which is rather According to Fazioli, this system has advantages harpsichord-like due to the fact that its hammer

7 heads are not covered by leather but consist of L'evenement le plus marquant de ces several layers of glued paper only. Kerstin celebrations sera la presentation d'une Schwarz, who also made a replica of the Leipzig importante exposition consacree a I 'heritage Cristofori, however, believes that the original musical et a l'art campanaire de la Chine hammer-heads had leather pads, and her ancienne, et qui parcoure !'heritage musical de instrument, which was exhibited in Leipzig and I' epoque des Royaumes Combattants ( env. 5"m• for a certain period of time also in Berlin, has a siecle avant J. -C.) jusqu' a la Republique softer, more clavichord-like timbre. Still, both populaire de Chine (1949) dans plusieurs espaces these instruments sound very different from, de la cite de la musique. L'exposition est e.g., the Silbermann pianoforte in the Berlin presentee dans trois lieux: larue, le temple et le Musikinstrumenten-Museum with its mellow, tombeau. soft yet bodied tone. After all, the sound of music has always been and will always remain a La rue highly personal matter. En acces libre dans la rue musicale de la cite, !a Martin Elste copie du carillon de cloches bianzhong compose de 65 cloches sera jouee avec les instruments traditionnels : phonolithe, cithare, tambour et Congratulations orgues a bouche pendant !'exposition. Ces animations musicales permettront de CIMCIM sends its heartfelt congratulations upon mieux conna!tre, sous forme de concerts, les the hundredth anniversary of the State Museum principaux aspects des traditions musicales de la of Theatre and Music, St. Petersburg and wishes Chine ancienne. all the best for a successful conference on The History of Musical Instrument Collecting. Le temple Cet espace presente les cloches du temps des Royaumes combattants jusqu'a l'epoque Exhibitions contemporaine. Le visiteur pourra evaluer l'etendue de !'evolution technologique et Niirnberg, Germany stylistique a travers la fabrication d'une cloche The exhibition "Clavier 2000 - eine Erfindung de carillon et d'une cloche bouddhique, et les fur aile" in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum roles culturels, cultuels et sociaux des cloches au in Ntirnberg, made in collaboration with the fil du temps. Les visiteurs pourront decouvrir Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Universitat quelques-uns des plus grands chefs-d 'ceuvre Leipzig and the Musikinstrumenten-Museum PK illustrant les traditions de I' art campanaire - in Berlin is prolonged until 4th February 2001. carillons ceremoniels, cloches liturgiques, objets For further information see: votifs et funeraires. http://www .gnm.de. Frank Bar Le tombeau Cet espace presente une selection des plus beaux Paris, France tresors exhumes de la tombe du marquis Yi de La Voix du Dragon, Zeng qui a ete enterre avec son salon de Tresors archeologiques et art campanaire de la musique. A partir de cette evocation, dont la Chine ancienne, tombe (5• siecle avant J.-C.) a revele un 21 novembre 2000 - 25 fevrier 2001 ensemble inegale de vestiges archeologiques lies a la musique de cour, I' exposition fera par Dans le cadre des celebrations de I' an 2000 et a ailleurs une large place a l'art des grands I' occasion de I' annee du dragon, la cite de la bronzes, des laques et des jades precieuses ainsi musique a souhaite donner un eclat particulier a qu'aux pierres senores. la saison 2000-2001 et montrer combien le nouveau millenaire tirera inspiration des cultures Les objets et tresors exceptionnels dont musicales aussi anciennes que celle de laChine. beaucoup ne sont jamais sortis de Chine

8 proviennent du musee provincial a Wuhan et du from 1640 made by Georg Oller in Stockholm as site archeologique de Suizhou, situes dans Ia well as several fine ivory instruments including province du Hubei, ainsi que du Musee de Ia a recorder by Coenraad Rykel from Amsterdam, Grande Cloche et des Cloches Anciennes de made around 1700. Pekin. La programmation de concerts dans les deux The opening of the exhibition coincided with the salles de Ia cite de Ia musique (amphitheatre et symposium Music in art - Sounds of the grande salle) sera centree sur les musiques Sixteenhundreds. The talks dealt with works d'Extreme Orient et leurs rapports avec certaines from the National Museum of Fine Arts in musiques occidentales. Stockholm's collection. An English summary Patrice Verrier will be published in the Art Bulletin of the Nationalmuseum Stockholm, Spring 2001. Stockholm, Sweden Hans Riben From the 27th October 2000 to the 11th February 2001, The National Museum of Fine Washington, USA Arts in Stockholm is showing an exhibition Invitation to visit Piano 300 called Music in the Visual Arts. The exhibition The Smithsonian exhibition "PIANO 300- Three is a joint project by The National Museum of Hundred Years of People and Pianos" has been Fine Arts and The Stockholm Music Museum extended to June 3, 2001. Popular with well and shows how music, musical instruments and over 150,000 visitors, the exhibition displays 25 music making has been portrayed from the 17th pianos (22 from the Smithsonian collection) in to the 19th century. The exhibition consists of cultural and musical contexts (with a lively paintings, miniatures, engravings and twenty concluding video not to be missed!) in the musical instruments. handsome Smithsonian International Gallery in Washington, D.C. Cynthia Adams Hoover and Amongst other things, the exhibition reflects her co-curators Patrick Rucker and Edwin M. alternative perceptions of music as art, and a Good again extend an invitation to CIMCIM form of expression; everything from heavenly members to visit the exhibition, perhaps by choirs performing for the greater glory of God combining it with a visit to the impressive guitar and the harmony of music as a path to love and exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston unification, to earthy music symbolising decay. (November 5 - February 25) or attending the A number of themes are presented, such as meetings of the American Musical Instrument Hearing under the title The Five Senses with Society in North Carolina (May 30 - June 2). works by Hendrick Terbrugghen and Ferdinand Check the website www.piano300.org for Bol. Saint Cecilia, The Patron Saint of Music is current and future programmes. portrayed in a work attributed to Agnese Dolci. Cynthia Adams Hoover The theme Musical Group is interpreted by Paul La Tarte, Cornelis Pietersz Bega and Pehr Hillestrom the elder. Musical instrument still life Recent Publications is displayed as well as religious and antique motifs by David Teniers the elder, Jacob FRANK BAR (ed.) Musica instrumentalis, Jordaens and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Issue no. 3 of the German-language yearbook Finally, the artists Peder Severin Kmyer, Anders for general organology will appear in Zorn and Ernst Josephson focus on how music December 2000. The volume containing is depicted in Nordic music life of the people, contributions of international scholars is myth and saga. dedicated to John Henry van der Meer's 80th birthday. Several of the instruments on display have never Musica Instrumentalis is published by the been shown for the public before. Highlights Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg in include a kit made by Thomas Huyghen in collaboration with the Fachgruppe fur Utrecht in 1660, a highly decorated trombone Instrumentenkunde in der Gesellschaft fur

9 Musik-forschung and GEFAM (Gesellschaft Addenda and Corrigenda to the CIMCIM der Freunde Alter Musikinstrumente, Zurich). Mailing list Board members are John Henry van der Meer, Ellen Hickmann, Manfred Hermann Schmid, Postal addresses: Konstantin Restle, Martin Kirnbauer, Thomas Dr. Sabine Klaus: P. 0. Box 190, Landrum Drescher and Frank P. Bar. The forthcoming S.C. 29356, U.S.A. issue contains approx. 200 pages (size 220 x 270 mm, softcover) and many photographs, Fax numbers: drawings etc. Prices: single issue DM 54.-, Horniman Museum, London: +44 208 291 subscription DM 45.-. Musica Instrumentalis 5506 can be ordered from: Germanisches N ationalmuseum Verlag, KartausergaBe 1, D- E-mail addresses: 90402 Nurnberg, Germany. Some copies of Heather Durnka: [email protected] Musica Instrumentalis No. 1 (1998) and 2 Sabine Klaus: [email protected] (1999) are still available. Kenneth Mobbs : Ken@ kwmobbs . freeserve. co . uk Berlin, Musikinstrumentenmuseum: In the series "Klingendes Museum" (the sounding museum) the fourth CD has been Bulletin 44 released in 1999: "Die Blasinstrumente aus der St. Wenzelskirche in Naumburg" (The Wind­ Please send your contributions, preferably by Instruments of St. W enzels church at e-mail, by 15 February 2001 to the editor: Naumburg) Booklet by Dieter Krickeberg and Corinna Weinheimer Tom Lerch. Berlin 1999. 18 ,- DM Ringve Museum Pb 3064 Lade In 1890 the St. Wenzel, s parish at Naumburg N- 7441 Trondheim, Norway sold 37 historical wind instruments to the Fax: +47 73 92 04 22 collection of old music instruments at the royal e-mail: corinna. [email protected] academy of music in Berlin. Some of these most important wind instruments of the 17th century, such as recorders, cornetts, shawms, dulcians, trombones, crumhorns survive. During the years between 1988 and 1999 the finest of these instruments were, as far as possible, carefully brought to playing conditions and recordings have been made in close collaboration of experienced musicians and conservators, to get an adequate and also entertaining sound-documentation. A delicate selection of these recordings with period music is now published on this CD, which is specially unique, as for conservation reasons most of these instruments will never be played again. Tom Lerch

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Call for Papers

Musical Instruments on Display: Mounting, Security, Labelling

In times of change in the museum world with different expectations through the visitors and often tight financial possibilities the display of musical instruments presents a new challenge. The trend towards the museum as an adventure park, mass tourism and the cut backs for security personnel needs reflection on the mounting and labelling of the objects. Discussions and exchange of experience on these topics can help museum workers finding satisfying solutions. Presentations to the theme are invited.

Papers will only be accepted if they are. (a) on the topic as described above and (b) relevant to museum practice. Abstracts of 200 to 300 words should be submitted by post, fax or preferably by e-mail to:

Corinna Weinheimer Ringve Museum Pb 3064 Lade N- 7441 Trondheim Norway Fax: +47 73 92 04 22 e-mail : corinna. weinheimer@ringve. museum. no

Please send your contributions by 15th January 200 1 . Authors will be notified of acceptance as soon as possible.

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