Organized by the Organology Study Group of the American Musicological Society, this session aims to be a cursory introduction for scholars interested in working with instruments in museum collections, including the range of expectations on site, conservation concerns, challenges in measuring instruments, and approaches to using evidence from instruments in scholarly arguments. The session aims to be a cursory introduction for scholars interested in working with instruments in museum collections, including the range of expectations on site, conservation concerns, challenges in measuring instruments, and approaches to using evidence from instruments in scholarly arguments.
Our panelists are:
-Emanuele Marconi, Director of the Musikinstrumenten-Museum, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung
-Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet, Senior Conservator of the Heritage Collections of the University of Edinburgh
-Robert Bigio, Flute Maker and Scholar
-Cassandre Balosso-Bardin, Assistant Professor of Cultural Musicology, University of Leuven
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