A great day spent with students from Glasgow Clyde College, inspecting and measuring key instruments from the collection. St Cecilia's instrument collection in the heart of Edinburgh is beautiful, well worth a visit if you're interested in historic musical instruments.
https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/facility/st-cecilias-hall-concert-room-and-music-museum
http://www.stcecilias.ed.ac.uk/
Thanks to Jenny (Curator) and Jonathan (Restorer) for facilitating our visit.
Students documenting and measuring details of the chosen instruments. Early Martin guitars, lutes, a Josef Pages fan strutted guitar from 1813, Manuel Ramirez from 1914, a Fender telecaster, Panormo, Lacote, a cittern, a beautiful harp and more.
The highlights for me were the unbelievable lightness of the Ramirez and the beautiful craftsmenship of the Pages, inside aswell as out!
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