European, British, and American musical instrument collectors, 1850-1940

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"The contributors to this volume examine musical instrument collectors and their reasons and means for collecting: Who were they professionally and personally? Why did they collect musical instruments? How did they acquire their objects? What were their collecting criteria and aesthetics? Following a critical introduction, two chapters on historically overlooked yet essential themes - provenance, and collecting in the context of colonialism - lay the foundation for nineteen chapters, each on an individual collector, telling personal and individual stories of collecting and collections. These narratives illuminate a rich contextual history, including the factors that shaped each collector's acquisition and use of objects. Because many private collections later became the mainstay of institutional ones, this volume holds that it is essential to understand these collectors and historical collecting practices, in order to understand our museum collections today. The book will be of interest to scholars working in material culture, collecting and museum studies, music history, and organology"-- Provided by publisher.

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Collecting African Musical Instruments during the Colonization Era : The case of the Congo / Maarten Couttenier, Ignace De Keyser, Rémy Jadinon, and Saskia Willaert -- Provenance and Instruments of the Violin Family / Carla Shapreau -- From 'Scoundrel' to Professor : The legacy of John Donaldson (c. 1788-1865) and the founding of the University of Edinburgh's musical instrument collection / Sarah Deters -- Carl Engel (1818-1882) : 'The highest authority in Europe upon the development of musical instruments' / Gabriele Rossi Rognoni -- Adolphe Sax's (1814-1894) collection of musical instruments : 'The rare museum of an artist and inventor' / Ignace De Keyser and Malou Haine -- Alfred Hill (1862-1940) and Arthur Hill (1860-1939) : Private collectors, public benefactors / Tom Wilder -- César Charles Snoeck (1834-1898) : Making the intangible, tangible / Ignace De Keyser -- Daniel Sargent Pillsbury (1836-1902) : First collector of American band instruments / Robert E. Eliason and Jeanine Head Miller -- Collecting Musical Instruments : A Merchant's Passion. The Rück family collection (c. 1880-1962) / Dominik von Roth, Linda Escherich, and Markus Zepf -- Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown (1842-1918) : A Herculean piece of work / Sally B. Brown and Jayson Kerr Dobney -- Auguste Tolbecque's (1830-1919) Collection : A new aesthetic order and the experimental archeology of musical instruments / Jean-Michel Renard -- Celebrating the Art of Musical-Instrument Making : The private collection of Victor-Charles Mahillon (1841-1924) / Ignace De Keyser and Saskia Willaert -- Carl Claudius (1855-1931) and His Sound-chests / Madeleine Modin -- 'No Mere Assemblage of Musical Instruments' : The foundations of Arnold Dolmetsch's (1858-1940) collection / Edmond Johnson -- Dayton C. Miller (1866-1941), an American Collector of Flutes / Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford -- George Henry Benton Fletcher (1866-1944), The Improbable Collector / Mimi S. Waitzman -- Francis W. Galpin (1858-1945) : The Canon and collector / Darcy Kuronen -- Henry Ford (1863-1947) : Gathering America's musical past / Jeanine Head Miller and Robert E. Eliason -- Fritz Wildhagen (1878-1956) -- Painter, Collector, Aesthete / Annette Otterstedt and Klaus Martius -- Evan Gorga (1865-1957) : An extraordinary collector, his incredible collections, and their disastrous odyssey / Alessandra Palidda -- Curt Sachs (1881-1959) as Head of the Collection of Musical Instruments in Berlin : Views and perspectives / Heike Fricke.