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FOMRHI Quarterly 2 BULLETIN 43 15 Bulletin Supplement 17 Plans: Edinburgh University Collection 18 Plans and Books' Elena Dal Coriivo No. 43 April 1986 FOMRHI Quarterly 2 BULLETIN 43 15 Bulletin Supplement 17 Plans: Edinburgh University collection 18 Plans and books'. S.A.M.I., Paris 20 Plan! Eerens tr aver so 23 Plan! Vienna quint bass recorder The Harley Foundation, Welbeck 24 COMMUNICATIONS 688- REVIEWS! The Sound of the Fortepiano! A Discography, by A. Basardj 695 Musical Instruments Through The Ages, ed M. Hamber & L. Stanners^ Music for Oboe 1650-1800, by B. Haynes? ...Maultrommel..,2, ed. F. Crane*, A Treatise...violin playing, by L. Mozart, trans. E. Knocker (paperback reissue)! Un Musee Aujourd'hui (exhibition cat.)! The Art of Fingering the Harpsichord, by N. Pasquali (facs. of 1757 print)? Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, by E. Jones (facs. of 1784 print) J. Montagu 26 726 Changes at Prague G. Lyndon-Jones 16 696 Review! Piano i Norge, by P A Kjeldsberg O. Aanstad 34 697 New Grove DoMI! JM no. 4! further detailed comments J. Montagu 35 698 New Grove DoMI! ES no. 4! Ca to Ci entries E. Segerman 39 699 Are computers anything for us? C. Karp 46 700 (Computer Comms) M. Lyndon-Jones 52 701 On computers, typewriters etc. M. Champollion 53 702 (Non-keyboard baroque temperament) B. Haynes 56 703 A matter of temperament M. Hodgson 69 704 The proportional compass R. Gug 71 705 A simple and cheap hygrometer T. Bergstrrim 87 706 Digital and other calipers B. van Leeuwen 88 707 Modification and sharpening of twist drills B. van Leeuwen 89 708 De humidifiers H.Hope 89 709 ...Chitarra battente H.Hope 90 710 Vihuela H.Hope 90 711 An experimental method N. Odell 91 712 On extended lutes E. Segerman 92 E. Segerman 99 X713 Neopolitan mandolins, wire strengths and violin stringing E. Segerman 101 " 714 Round bridges! the geometry of clearance angles E. Segerman 105 715 Flat bridges I! focus on the lira da bracdo E.Segerman 108 716 Lyra and other viols that played from tablature... L. A. E. Pereira 112 717 (Keyboard instrument classification) R. Shann 115 718 Double, double, toil and trouble 719 M. Champollion 116 Enquiries M. Champollion 120 720 Little harpsichord plan, asked for by Vojnic (Comm 685) 721 J.Montagu 122 Biblical instruments- further to Comm 672 J. Montagu 124 722 On the skill of the Nurnberg brass instrument makers 723 R. Cameron 126 (The pitches of flutes) P. Madgwick 128 724 Building and playing a nahr 725 A. Bernardini 131 A peculiar Fornari oboe FELLOWSHIP OF MAKERS AND RESEARCHERS OF HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS Hon. Sec. J. Montagu, c/o Faculty of Music, St. Aldate's, Oxford OX1 1DB, U.K. bull.43, p.2 FELLOWSHIP of XAKERS and RESEABCEDBBS of HISTORICAL IISTRDTCEITS Bulletin 43 April, 1986 I thought that the type size last time was too small, so this is one size larger, and we'll see if it's better. It should be much the same as my typewriter at the Faculty (what you've been used to for the last five years or so) , whereas the last Bull was the same as my own typewriter, what you used to get before I came to Oxford and what a lot of you used to complain about. Also I have, I hope, found a source of carbon ribbons, which should get a sharper print if they arrive before I've finished writing all this. Maggie wrote to me and said why didn't I get a decent typewriter like their new one instead of this machine, and I must say that her type (see the Accounts below and a Comm from her in this Q) is much better than this, but this machine will do things that hers won't (whether this year's List of Members will be on database or by hand as usual will depend on whether I can learn to use the database in time) and as yet I can't afford to buy a better printer than the one that comes packaged with the Amstrad. MAILING LIST: My computer, being a cheapy, can cope with all the Western European accents, though it's infuriating that it'll put in an acute accent and wait to have a vowel put under it, but it won't wait for a consonant and thus can't cope with anything beyond the Danube. DjiIda's machine, being an expensive one, can't cope with anything except English (or maybe American) and so our apologies to all of you who have had accents left off your names and addresses on the envelopes, and please continue to forgive us for this discourtesy. More seriously, please forgive the considerable chaos caused by a lot of printing errors on the January envelopes. The print­ out was not properly proof-read (there were a lot of strong words and rude remarks about this) , but I hope that this quarter's will be better, and that we shall continue to improve on this. There is a considerable saving on time and of your money in having computer-printed labels (money because we can't find anyone to do it free - labelling several hundred envelopes and then stuffing them is quite a Job - and so we pay a fairly low rate to one of NRI's helpers to do the job, and the quicker it's done the less it costs), so please be patient while they get themselves sorted out. LIST OF MEMBERS: The 1986 List of Members comes with this Q. Please check your own entry and tell me whether it's wrong in any respect, including the various cross-references to instrument or location. I try to get it right, but it's never yet been 100% and it probably never will be. It does represent a lot of work, so please make it worthwhile by using it. Take it with you when you travel and get in touch with colleagues in other places; write to people whose interests are similar to yours. We are a Fellowship, and a Fellowship should be an association of friends and colleagues and this is why I spend so much time on the List. I'm always surprised to get phone bull.43, p.3 calls from foreign visitors who want an address and who've left their list at home. FoMRHI Accounts for 1985 Opening balance . • • . £3367.38 Advances in 1984 for 1985 £1602.50 Income in 1985: 1985 renewals £1158.50 New members & sale of back issues £1294.55 Donations & over-subscriptions £ 307.05 Advances in 1985 for 1986 £2088.75 £4362.60 Total income in 1985 £4848.85 Expenditure and deductions: Printing £3207.49 Postage £1045.88 Stationery £ 193.13 Carriers £ 49.34 Bank deductions £ 43.50 Sundry items £ 18.95 £4558.29 Total expenditure in 1985 £4558.29 Accumulated surplus £1764.88 Loss £ 195.69 Balance in hand for the year £1569.19 Closing balance £3657.94 Maggie added some comments, which I'm expanding on somewhat. One was that the total income from 1985 subscription renewals was £2761, whereas the basic expenditure for that year excluding postage was £3500 (but bear in mind that we print something like 100 extra of each Q which will be sold as back numbers to future new members) . Nevertheless, even including this future sale of spare Qs, the cost for the year is approximately £5 per member, including that future 100 new members. The postage rates at present are approximately, for the four mailings that you receive: Inland: 72p total: £5.72 Overseas by surface: 92p total: £5.92 Airmail to Europe: £2.12 total: £7.12 Airmail to America, Africa etc: £3.44 total: £8.44 Airmail to Australasia & Japan: £3.34 total: £8.84 So you can see that except for airmail to Europe, we are running at a loss (perhaps I should remind you that we decided a long time ago that for simplicity we would have only one airmail rate and that we would make a small profit on Europe and a small loss on Australia, New Zealand and the Far East, hoping that the two would more or less balance; this they do, or at least near enough). bull.43, p.4 Her second comment is that we have an accumulated surplus, and should we use that to hold the subscription for another year? We do need a surplus because, as you can see, the print bill is about £800 a quarter and the postage bill is about £250, and there is always the risk of running out of cash between one subscription year and the next. Her inclination, and mine also, is to hold the subscription at the present rate for one more year, but we'll have to see how we go and the Fellows will have to decide. We lost a lot of members at the beginning of 1985, and while we picked up many new ones at the end of that year at the Horticultural Hall, if we lose too many this year (not all renewals may be in yet, but we do always lose some each year, mostly those who joined and after a year decided that FoMRHI isn't really for them, but some, too, who get defeated by the rising cost of living and have to cut down somewhere), then we shall have to put up the sub for 1987. This, perhaps I may add, is why we have always resisted the requests that some of you make for a bankers' order or for a three, five or more year subscription. I know that it would make things easier for you, but we are held to ransom by our printer (whose rates always have been and remain very reasonable; he's held to ransom by the paper suppliers and so on) and by the Post Office whose increases can be sudden and drastic.
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