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2024

17-18 October: Basel. Historisches Museum conference, Provenance Research: provenienzforschung.hmb@bs.ch. Call for papers deadline: 14 April 2024. 19 October: Online conference: Music-making materials. Natural Resource Use and Sustainability in Musical Instrument Making. Contact: Sebastian Hachmeyer, University of Hildesheim, hachmeyer[at]uni-hildesheim.de. Call for papers deadline: 30 June 2024. 13-16 November: Blackheath, London. The London International Festival of Early Music lifem.org 14-17 November: Chicago. American Musicological Society annual meeting, Organology Study Group: OrganologySG[at]gmail.com. Call for papers deadline: 20 May 2024. 15-17 November: Michaelstein. 39th Symposium on musical instrument making.

2025

15-16 March: Birmingham. Conference: Music & Physical Disability: Instruments, Performance & Sustainable Ecosystems. Call for papers deadline: 30 September 2024.

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