To Play or Not to Play. Corrosion of Historic Brass Instruments. Romantic Brass Symposium 4
hg. von Adrian von Steiger, Daniel Allenbach und Martin Skamletz

(Musikforschung der Hochschule der Künste Bern, Vol. 15)

Schliengen: Argus 2023
168 Seiten, mit zahlreichen Abbildungen und Notenbeispielen
Format 19 x 28,5 cm
Fadenheftung, Hardcover
ISBN 978-3-931264-95-6
doi.org/10.26045/kp64-6179

The present volume brings together the results of a multidisciplinary research project on corrosion inside historical brass instruments. In this SNSF-funded project Brass Instruments Between Preventive Conservation and Use in Historically Informed Performance, the Hochschule der Künste Bern collaborated with the Swiss National Museum, the Paul Scherrer Institute, the Institute for Building Materiales at ETH and Klingendes Museum Bern, among others.

The results – here complemented with further contributions on the topic of conservation of brass instruments, especially in museum settings – have been presented at the Fourth International Romantic Brass Symposium (2017), organised together with the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Instruments and Music (CIMCIM). Musicological and organological questions meet chemical and physical analyses, which in turn are considered in terms of their manageability and practical relevance in the museum context.

The volume is available here as a free PDF download, identical to the printed edition. The individual contributions can also be downloaded separately below. The print edition is available directly from Edition Argus.

Content

Preface

Martin Skamletz | “Practice-Oriented Research”. Fifteen Years of Brass Projects at Hochschule der Künste Bern

Adrian von Steiger | The Preservation of Historical Brass Instruments. Developing Guidelines for Their Preventive Conservation

Martin Ledergerber/Emilie Cornet/Erwin Hildbrand | Humidity in Regularly Played Historical Brass Instruments. The Possibilities and Limitations of Preventive Conservation

Bernhard Elsener/Tiziana Lombardo/Federica Cocco/Marzia Fantauzzi/Marie Wörle/Antonella Rossi | Breathing New Life into Historical Instruments. How to Monitor Corrosion

Federica Cocco/Marzia Fantauzzi/Bernhard Elsener/Antonella Rossi | How Surface Analysis Can Contribute to an Understanding of the Preventive Conservation of Brass Instruments

David Mannes/Eberhard Lehmann | Monitoring the Condition of Played Historical Brass Instruments by Means of Neutron Imaging

Martin Ledergerber | Endoscopy as an Investigative Method

Daniel Allenbach | A Glimpse into the Orchestra Pit at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris on 29 May 1913

Arnold Myers | Preserving Information Relating to Instruments in Museums

Robert Barclay | Old and New. Mediating Musical Experience

Sabine K. Klaus | To Play or Not to Play? How BIAS Can Help

Marie Martens | Angul Hammerich and the Bronze Lurs. To Play or to Display