What I discovered inside Edinburgh’s museum of musical instruments
Other
Durkin, R. (2017)
What I discovered inside Edinburgh’s museum of musical instruments. https://theconversation.com/what-i-discovered-inside-edinburghs-museum-of-musical-instruments-77495
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The Dancing-Master's Toolkit: a Summary of the Pochette of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and its Role in Society
Journal Article
Durkin, R. (2017)
The Dancing-Master's Toolkit: a Summary of the Pochette of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and its Role in Society. The Galpin Society journal, LXX, 65-79
The pochette or kit of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries survives in surprisingly large numbers in both specialist and general collections, and displays a variety of fo...
The mystery of item 333: an examination of an unidentified instrument
Presentation / Conference
Durkin, R. (2014, May)
The mystery of item 333: an examination of an unidentified instrument. Paper presented at Objects of Sound, Edinburgh
Within the Edinburgh University Collection of Historical Musical Instruments (EUCHMI), an instrument is held that is currently catalogued as ‘a viola d’amore or treble viol’. ...