People prefer people, will accept pets, but failing all else, they will unburden themselves to the crockery’; Collections, collecting and why they are important

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This keynote relates to the Galpin Society Conference on Collectors and Collecting. As the programme includes fascinating papers relating to individual collectors and collections, I decided to offer an overview in order to try to build a context and overarching structure into which the various detailed presentations fit. So my main themes are:
• Collecting: why do it?
• What is a Collection?
• History of Collecting and Collectors
• Formalisation of Collections
• Is there a future for Collections?
• The Lives of Objects
• Musical Instrument Collecting Today
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusUnpublished - 23 Aug 2019
EventJoint Galpin Society/Bate Collection conference: Musical Instrument Collectors and Collections - University of Oxford, Oxford
Duration: 23 Aug 201925 Aug 2019
https://www.galpinsociety.org/events.htm

Conference

ConferenceJoint Galpin Society/Bate Collection conference: Musical Instrument Collectors and Collections
CityOxford
Period23/08/1925/08/19
OtherThe Bate Collection of Musical Instruments and The Galpin Society hosted a 3-day conference in Oxford to explore themes in musical instrument collecting including: how instruments are collected, displayed and conserved; who collects them, how and why; the relationships between makers, musicians, collectors, curators, dealers and scholars, as well as current research taking place in musical instrument collections in and outside museums around the world.
The event featured presentations by scholars with specialist knowledge of musical instruments, as well as historians of music, biographers of instrument collectors and their networks, and those working in archives and museums.
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Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • musical instruments
  • collections
  • collectors
  • collecting
  • objects

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