All live events are subject to cancellation or postponement.

2020

20-22 November: Early Music Summit ONLINE (Call for papers deadline: 15 October 2020) 27 November: Thirty-sixth Annual Conference on Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain ONLINE (Submissions deadline: 24 September 2020) 15-16 December: Bradford. National Science and Media Museum. Conference: Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: an Interdisciplinary Conference. (Call for papers deadline: 28 June 2020)

2021

June/July: Galpin Society AGM. Further details to be announced. September: London. Conference: CIMCIM: Beyond the Object and Back, the Role of Collections in Music Museums. (Call for papers deadline: to be announced)

2022

June: Edinburgh. Galpin Society conference & AGM. Further details to be announced. (Call for papers deadline: to be announced)

Past Galpin Society

conferences

23-25 August 2019: Oxford Joint Galpin Society/Bate Collection conference: Musical Instrument Collectors and Collections 1-4 June 2017: Edinburgh Joint Galpin Society/American Musical Instrument Society Conference 27-30 September 2015: Cambridge Joint Galpin Society/Institute of Acoustics Group Conference 25-29 July 2013: Oxford Joint Conference: The Bate Collection and The Galpin Society in association with ‘Making the Tudor Viol’ (University of Huddersfield, supported by the AHRC) & CIMCIM: ‘Musical Instruments - History, Science and Culture’ Papers given at the conference: Abstracts of papers accepted Bruno Guastalla: Reading Old Musical Instruments 6-11 July 2009: London, Edinburgh Joint Galpin Society/Historic Brass Society Conference: ‘Making the British Sound’ 3-9 August 2003: Oxford, London, Edinburgh Joint Galpin Society/American Musical Instrument Society Conference 9-11 July 1999: Edinburgh Joint Galpin Society/Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments Conference