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2023

20-22 April: Bern, Switzerland. Sixth International Romantic Brass Symposium: Romantic Brass in Context: 19th-Century Brass Instruments in Military, Church, Chamber, Opera, and Orchestra (Call for papers deadline: 30 September 2022) 29 April: Newark, UK. Lutherie 2023: The 23rd annual spring seminar for violin makers 19-20 May: Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Symposium: Instruments of Global Music Theory (Call for papers deadline: 31 December 2022) 24 June: Galpin Society AGM at 3pm. We will be using a Zoom platform provided by the University of Edinburgh. Further details to follow in the Summer 2023 Newsletter.

Past Galpin Society

conferences

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