All live events are subject to cancellation or postponement.

2021

6-8 September: CIMCIM Annual Meeting: Online. Global Crises and Music Museums: representing music after the pandemic (Call for papers deadline: 30 April) 5-7 November: Bern, Switzerland. Conference: The Medieval Rabab, a Bowed String Instrument with an Arabic- Islamic Past and Present (Call for papers deadline: 15 April)

2022

23-25 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 6-12 September 2009: Florence & Rome CIMCIM, AMIS, HBS and Galpin Society joint meeting 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