‘Made in London 2’:
Makers, designers and innovators in musical instrument making in London, from the 17th to 21st centuries
London Metropolitan University, Conference Room CCG–02,
16 Goulston Street, London E1 7TP
Friday,
23 September 2016
This is a final reminder; if you would like to book a place, please register by Wednesday 21 September via this link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/m9.30 REGISTRATION and COFFEE
10.00 James Westbrook (University of Cambridge)
The London-made ‘Melophonic’ guitar and its influence upon the American steel-string acoustic guitar
10.30 Simon Waters (Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast)
Innovation, modification and continuity in flute design and manufacture in London between 1760 and 1840
11.00 Jocelyn Howell
Demand and supply: wind instruments for Britain and the Empire
11.30-11.50 COFFEE
11.50 Hetti Price
Bass violins in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England (University of Birmingham)
12.20 Maria Cleary (University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and Orpheus Institute, Gent, Belgium)
Harp pedal technique in London
12.50-1.50 LUNCH (not provided)
1.50 Jing Ouyang (Royal Northern College of Music)
The influence of the Broadwood piano on the London Pianoforte School in the early nineteenth century
2.20 Tom Strange (Independent Researcher)
Cultural Evolution: How London pianos became All American
2.50 David Gerrard (University of Edinburgh)
Early keyboards in London: Thomas Goff's Opus 2
3.20-3.30 Announcements
3.30-3.50 AFTERNOON TEA
3.50 Benjamin Hebbert (Benjamin Hebbert Violins Limited & St Cross College, University of Oxford)
Violin making and the progression of the London trade from early modern times to the early 1900s
4.20 Lewis Jones (London Metropolitan University) and Marie Kent (Institute of Musical Research)
Celebrating the Centenary: a short history of the National School for the Music Trades of the Northern Polytechnic Institute and its successors 1916–2016
4.50 Closing observations and discussion
The event is sponsored by London Metropolitan University and is free to attend.
Registration is now open via this link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/m
We hope you will be able to join us, and look forward to seeing you there.
Lewis Jones and Marie Kent
When: Friday, 23 September 2016
9:30 am to 5:00 pm
Where: London Metropolitan University
Room CCG–02
16 Goulston Street
London E1 7TP