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Bulletin 19, March 1994 Comitf l ntrrn~lth'IIII I .it"s Alusics r1 Cvllauons d'JnSirwncnts dr ~\1u szq~tr C"miti lntrrn .1Ci<'"''' dr .\111sros )' Colrmonrs dr lnS!rwnmtos Mlls ir,drs CIMCIM lntrmatwnal Commlltrr "f M11 siral lns/rwnmts .\ll!SclfmS and C•llrrtzons President Cynthia Adams Hoover Division of Musical Hiflory, Smithsonian ln fl itution, Washingt on, DC 20560 US.A. Telephone 202 357-1707 Fax 202 786-2883. Vice-President Arnold M yers Edinhurgh Universit_Y Collection of Hiflorir Musical lnfl rummts, Reid Conce rt Hall, Briflo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AG Scotland. Telepho ne 31 447-4791. E-ll'lail A MlTRS@UK. ACED. Secretary-Treasurer Robert Barclay Canadian Conservation lnfli tute, zo3o lnnrs,. Ottawa, Ontario KzA oC8 Canada . Telephone 613 998-]]21. Fax 613 998-4721. Bulletin No. 19 March - mars 1994 Letter from the President Note from the Secretary Treasurer Plans are moving forward for our 1994 meetings to When paying your subscriptions, please don't bother be held in Scotland and England June 2-9. Thanks to with bank transfers - they are far too expensive and Arnold Myers for coordinating all the details and inconvenient for small amounts. Either send a postal registrations. Some of the reservation deadlines are money order, a personal cheque drawn on a US or due now or soon, so please read the information in Canadian bank, or just plain cash. If you're coming these Bulletins from Arnold carefully and respond to Edinburgh, you can pay me then of course. promptly. Hoping to see as many of you as possible! At these meetings we: look forward not only to the visits to the collections and the other special Bob Barclay attractions but also to the sessions for the Working Groups. Throughout the history of CIMCIM it has Reports from Antwerp been difficult to maintain momentum and direction for these groups. For those attending the meetings, Friedemann Hellwig kindly sent the following two the lively discussions remind us of our mutual reports for inclusion here. They got a little lost challenges and our eagerness to find solutions. The somewhere, so they appear rather late. No blame to resolve and excitement of the meetings fades not long Friedemann or anybody else, except perhaps me (Bob after we return home. And for those who could not Barclay). I have made a few comments on them in attend, the resolve needs to he conveyed by the light of developments since they were written. I Working Group coordinators. Wr;; urge each would like to thank Friedemann for taking my place CIMClM memher to join a Working Group and we in Antwerp and recording the discussions. challenge all Working Group Coordinators to involve their memhers in the projects which were reported in ReporT on The Conserl'lllion Working Group BulleTin 16 and follo·wing. If you are not a working memher, please he in With the appearance of CIMCIM Puhlications No. I, touch with one of the coordinators ahout your Recommendations j(w rhe Conservation of Musical interest: Education and Exhihitions, Birgit Kjellstrom InsTrwnenTs, the group completed its task. The next (Stockholm); Conservation, Boh Barclay (Ottawa); pn~ject is the realisation of the envisaged workshop Documentation, Frances Palmer (London) and Ha<:ne on the preservation and conservation of musical La Rue (Oxford); International Directory, Barhara instruments, to he organized by the Museums and Lamhert (Concord); Puhlications, Arnold Myers Galleries Commission (MGC) of Great Britain. The (Edinhurgh); Training, Frio::do::mann Hellwig undersigned explained why in his view it is desirahle (Cologne); and Traditional Music, Ivan Macak to entrust the workshop to the group of four (Bratislava). conservators who have: heen active for so many years We. look forward to seeing you in Juno::. in CIMCIM (R. Barday. F . Hellwig, C. Karp, S. Oddl). Their experiences represent a wide spectrum Cynthia Adams Hoover of the knowledge and skills needed by the musical instrument conservator. Boh Barclay will he the conta..:t person with MGC with respel'l to a course in This list is non-authorised, non-exhaustive, to be used London in August. In the preparation of subsequent on a trial and error basis with respect to the courses younger conservators could take over under capability of the labs. Boh Barclay was requested to the guidance of Bob Barclay who has gathered a lot add this list to the survey. of experience with courses in various countries. also A long discussion was devoted to the question of in the Third World. whether CIMC!M needed a Working Group on the Regardless of the host country, the question of training of curators. Training requirements were whom to invite ami under what circumstances will he recognized for both the curator of specialized very important. Therefore. there should not he a collections and the small museum village teacher standard course. Instead. the curricula of each course director. The curricula of possible training courses should he developed in accordance with with the could include such subjects as handling objects, needs in that country or geographical region . The identi tication of instruments, preventive conservation, second course could possibly he held in Israel. Nina documentation, registration, display techniques, Benzoor of the Haifa Museum of Music and storage conditions, de. Many of these points could Ethnology will discuss this with colleagues in form a pn~ject of its own. Museological studies as a Jerusalem. The ClMClM Secretary will contact her post-graduate course in archaeology, musicology, art in this r~gard. (Editor's note: unfortunately, it has history or the like seem ideal, yet would be feasible heen learned that this project will not he possible in only in the case of the large, specialised collection. the foreseeable future.) These and many other questions need further It was suggested that the Recmmnendarions j(Jr discussion. In addition, a Working Group Access .. should he reprinted in the new CIMC!M Coordinator would have to be nominated. puhl ication series. Friedemann Hellwig Money remaining from the UNESCO grant for the conservation survey (which will be published as Progress Report on the Collection of Historic ClMClM Publication No.2, sec below) could he used Musical Instrumenl<>, Edinburgh University for this purpose. In the year, the Collection has been given instruments Reporr of rhe Training Working Group by Andrew Shivas and Archibald Smith. Further items have been lent to the Collection, including The survey of institutions offering training courses in several early English trumpets and other important musical instrument conservation has been completed instruments from the Shaw-Hellier Collection, lent by (P.A. Kjcldsbcrg and F. Hellwig) together with two J.W. Phillips. papers of the role of the musical instrument The cataloguing programme has continued to conservator in the museum context, his training and advance: three further fascicles of descriptive text cooperation with the museum staff (J. Koster and F. have been published. These cover bassoons, trumpets Hellwig). These papers should soon go to print as and trombones, and wind instruments of regional ClMCIM publications No.2. cultures worldwide respectively. In addition to the It was suggested that an amendment should be printed editions, they have also been published made with regard to museums possibly offering electronically. internships in musical instrument conservation labs. Three further technical drawings have been This list would include MMA, New York; Shrine to published, of the mandolin attributed to Vinaccia Music Vermi II ion; Smithsonian Institution, (303) and the early 17th century lute by Buchenberg Washington; CCI, Ottawa; Collection of Historic (3249), prepared for the Collection by Darryl Martin, Musical Instruments, Edinburgh; Homiman Museum, and the cometto (3189) drawn by Raymond Parks. London; Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford; Victoria and These bring the total number of workshop drawings Albert Museum, London; Gcmeentemuseum, The on sale to 30. Hague; Musical Instrument Museum, Brussels; A small exhibition showing the work of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Magyar Nemzeti Collection has been mounted in the foyer of the Old M uzeum, Budapest; SIM PK, Berlin; Karl Marx College of the University, showing some recent Univcrsitat, Leipzig; Gcrmanischcs Nationalmuscum, acquisitions, examples of conservation work on Ntirnberg; Stadmuscum, Mtinchen; Handelhaus, instruments (grant-aided by the Scottish Museums Halle; and Bachhaus, Ei senach. Please write to Council), current research, and the plans and model F riedemann Hellwig if correct addresses are needed. of the display proposals for the new premises for the Collection. 2 The Honorary Curator represented the University second volume of the Catalogue, Keyboard at the CIMCIM (The ICOM Committee on Musical Instruments, had to cease in 1989 because of Instrument Museums) meeting in Antwerp and is reductions in funding and staffing, but we hope that serving on the Museums and Galleries Conunission's a way may be found to complete this before long. expert panel advising on standards for the care of Those who attended the 1992 Conference in musical instruments in collections. Quebec City will know that the College undertook a The Collection has been used for teaching feasibility study to relocate its historic collections as purposes by University Staff, in particular for courses the 'National Museum of Music.' Sponsors for this in the Faculty of Music on the History of scheme were not found and since then the emphasis Instruments, Ethnomusicologyand Musical Acoustics. has been on increasing the educational contribution of Several parties have made organised visits, and the collections to the curriculum; a large proportion various scholars and instrument makers have visited of our time goes into lecture tours with to study particular instruments. demonstrations, seminars, lecture recitals and, Arnold Myers, usually, the preparation of two concerts a year. These Honorary Curator combine reproduction instruments owned by the students with selected keyboard instruments which Report on the Royal College of Music Museum of have also be heard in occasional broadcasts.
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