| Title | Bowed String Instruments in MIMEd |
|---|---|
| Description | This division of the Collection includes violins, violas, cellos, basses, kits, viols, bows and hurdy-gurdies with circa 80 instruments, circa 70 bows, and also some instrument-making tools. The objects allow a good representative display showing the history of bowed string instruments as used in Western Europe over the of the last three hundred years including an unaltered baroque violin. Several instruments were formerly owned by notable musicians including James Hogg (the "Ettrick Shepherd"), William Marshall and James Scott Skinner. |
| Custodian | H.I. Brackenbury (1869-1938); Peter Fellgett (1922-2008).; Professor John Donaldson (1789-1865) |
| Custodial History | The core of this division of the Collection was acquired by the Reid Professor of Music in the 1850s for which some of the accounts survive. Some items were gifted to the Faculty of Music since WWII, with full documentation; items from the Brackenbury Collection were allocated by the Government in 1991; Items (2878) Bass viol (Kaiser, c 1700) with (2879) and (2880) two bows (18th century) were purchased in 1988; New Violin Octet was donated by Peter Fellgett in 1995. Further items on loan. |
| Origin | Europe; North America |
| Identifier | UNIVEDCLD105 |
| Parent Collection | MIMEd |