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2026

9-11 April: Oxford. The British Institute of Organ Studies 50th anniversary conference: The Global British Organ. Call for papers deadline: 10 January 2026. 17-19 June: Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. Sound Stories Conference 2026. Joint conference: The Galpin Society and UK Global Music Technologies Collaboration and Cultural Exchange research group. Call for papers deadline: 18 January 2026. 2-6 July: Bern, Switzerland. International Society for Research and Promotion of Wind Music (IGEB) conference: Wind Music – Cultural Heritage in Transition. Call for papers deadline: 30 November 2025.

Past Galpin Society

conferences

27-30 June 2024: Oxford Materiality and the Meaning of Musical Instruments 23-25 June 2022: Edinburgh Galpin Society conference 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