Production of a catalogue of MIM's oboe collection
As part of a joint research project, teacher and researcher Stefaan Verdegem at the Royal Conservatory (Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel) has put up a specific catalogue of MIM's oboe collection (excluding folk and ethnic instrumentsand not-directly blown double reeds, with a few exceptions).
The MIM contains an interesting collection of oboes. Up to now, the only public available information source for this was Mahillon’s Catalogue, consisting of 5 volumes, written between 1880 and 1922. This reference book is still accurate today from many points of view. The catalogue describes the instruments...
As part of a joint research project, teacher and researcher Stefaan Verdegem at the Royal Conservatory (Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel) has put up a specific catalogue of MIM's oboe collection (excluding folk and ethnic instrumentsand not-directly blown double reeds, with a few exceptions).
The MIM contains an interesting collection of oboes. Up to now, the only public available information source for this was Mahillon’s Catalogue, consisting of 5 volumes, written between 1880 and 1922. This reference book is still accurate today from many points of view. The catalogue describes the instruments up to number 3300, covering about 2/3 of the actual oboe collection.
Verdegem's catalogue aims to give more detailed information about the complete oboe collection, correcting a few errors in the Mahillon catalogue and updating some information concerning the common names of some oboe types, according to the latest international standards and references. Rudimentary measurements are also given, and in some cases full measurements. It was not possible – given the boundaries of this project – to provide full measurements for all the instruments.
Check the catalogue out here.
