All live events are subject to cancellation or postponement.

2021

24-26 May: Historic Brass Society virtual symposium: ‘Pond Life: Crosscurrents over the Atlantic’ (Call for presentations deadline: 19 February) 29 May: Online symposium on the state of British musical instrument making: Endangered Musical Instruments 26 June: Galpin Society AGM: Zoom meeting. Further details to be announced. 5-9 September: London, Royal College of Music / Horniman Museum and Gardens. Post conference trip: 10-11 September, Edinburgh, St. Cecilia’s Hall. CIMCIM Annual Meeting: Global Crises and Music Museums: representing music after the pandemic (Call for papers deadline: 30 April) 5-7 November: Bern. Conference: The Medieval Rabab, a Bowed String Instrument with an Arabic-Islamic Past and Present (Call for papers deadline: 15 April)

2022

23-25 June: Edinburgh. Galpin Society conference & AGM. Further details to be announced. (Call for papers deadline: to be announced)

Past Galpin Society

conferences

23-25 August 2019: Oxford Joint Galpin Society/Bate Collection conference: Musical Instrument Collectors and Collections 1-4 June 2017: Edinburgh Joint Galpin Society/American Musical Instrument Society Conference 27-30 September 2015: Cambridge Joint Galpin Society/Institute of Acoustics Group Conference 25-29 July 2013: Oxford Joint Conference: The Bate Collection and The Galpin Society in association with ‘Making the Tudor Viol’ (University of Huddersfield, supported by the AHRC) & CIMCIM: ‘Musical Instruments - History, Science and Culture’ Papers given at the conference: Abstracts of papers accepted Bruno Guastalla: Reading Old Musical Instruments 6-11 July 2009: London, Edinburgh Joint Galpin Society/Historic Brass Society Conference: ‘Making the British Sound’ 3-9 August 2003: Oxford, London, Edinburgh Joint Galpin Society/American Musical Instrument Society Conference 9-11 July 1999: Edinburgh Joint Galpin Society/Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments Conference