This is the first book to combine museum-based conservation techniques with practical instructions on the maintenance, repair, adjustment, and tuning of virtually every type of historical musical instrument. As one of the world's leading conservators of musical instruments, Stewart Pollens gives practical advice on the handling, storage, display and use of historic musical instruments in museums and other settings, and provides technical information on such wide-ranging subjects as acoustics, cleaning, climate control, corrosion, disinfestation, conservation ethics, historic stringing…mehr
This is the first book to combine museum-based conservation techniques with practical instructions on the maintenance, repair, adjustment, and tuning of virtually every type of historical musical instrument. As one of the world's leading conservators of musical instruments, Stewart Pollens gives practical advice on the handling, storage, display and use of historic musical instruments in museums and other settings, and provides technical information on such wide-ranging subjects as acoustics, cleaning, climate control, corrosion, disinfestation, conservation ethics, historic stringing practice, measurement and historic metrology, retouching, tuning historic temperaments, varnish and writing reports. There are informative essays on the conservation of each of the major musical instrument groups, the treatment of paper, textiles, wood and metal, as well as historic techniques of wood and metalworking as they apply to musical instrument making and repair. This is a practical guide that includes equations, formulas, tables and step-by-step instructions.
Stewart Pollens served between 1976 and 2006 as the conservator of musical instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he restored and maintained a collection of over five thousand instruments. He is the author of over eighty scholarly articles and four books, including Forgotten Instruments (1980), The Violin Forms of Antonio Stradivari (1992), The Early Pianoforte (1995; reprinted 2009), Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù (1998), François-Xavier Tourte: Bow Maker (2001), and Stradivari (2010), which won a 2011 Choice award for 'Outstanding Academic Title'. In 1997 he was the recipient of the American Musical Instrument Society's Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize for The Early Pianoforte, a study of the invention and early history of the pianoforte. He is also a contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and writes frequently for The Strad.
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Introduction Entries A-Z: Acoustics Benzotriazole Bleach Boxwood Brass, bronze, and nickel silver alloys Brass and nickel silver cleaning Brass instrument conservation Bronze disease Calendar Cents conversion Chemical analysis Cleaning: soaps and detergents Clavichord maintenance Compo or pastiglia Conservation reports Dendrochronology Dictionary of common and obsolete chemical terms Disinfestation Drill bits Ebony and ebonizing Electroplating and electro-cleaning Epoxy removal Ethics Flutes Fortepiano maintenance French polishing Frets, tied and fixed Gilding Glues, pastes, and other adhesives Grain painting and marbling Grit size comparison chart Guitar stringing Gut strings Handling, storage, and transporting musical instruments Harp maintenance and stringing Harpsichord maintenance Helmholtz resonator Historical metrology Humidity control Hurdy gurdy stringing Illumination level Inscriptions, faded Intervals Iron and steel Ivory Japanning Keyboard instrument conservation Labels Lacquer Lakes Lead and lead alloys Leather Lute stringing Measurement Measurement system conversion Mersenne's Law Metallurgy Metalworking Mold making Mother-of-pearl and abalone Nickel silver cleaning Oddy test Organ restoration Overspun strings Paper, pencil, and ink Parchment, vellum, and slunk Patination Pegs Piano action regulation (modern grand) Pitch Proportion Recording Relative humidity Retouching Rosin Safety equipment Scaling Sealing wax Sharpening tools Silver cleaning Soldering Solvents and solvent cleaning Specific gravity Staining wood Stain removal Stradivari's varnish Stringed keyboard restoration Tap drill sizes Tapers Temperature Tempering steel Textile cleaning Tinning Tortoiseshell, horn, and whalebone Tuning and temperament Vapor-phase inhibitor paper Varnish Viola da Gamba strings Violin adjustment Violin, baroque fittings and strings Violin sizes Violin and viola strings, modern Vulcanite and ebonite Wax cleaning emulsion Wire gauge systems for early keyboard instruments Wheat paste Wood Woodwind instrument conservation Woodworking.
