TY - JOUR
AU - Hoeprich, Eric
AB - Eric Hoeprich In January last year, Sir Nicholas Shackleton died at his home in Cambridge. He was known primarily as a geologist and climatologist, and had been a part of Cambridge University his entire working life, lastly as 160 early music february 2008 professor and director of the Goodwin Institute of Qua- some players in The Netherlands. Clarinets by Oskar ternary Research. But an important part of his life was a Oehler and Heckel are the most recent, in addition to great love of music and of the clarinet in particular. Most unusual instruments like the Giorgi-Schaffner system, Romero system, van Perck system, Pupeschi system, clarinettists know his excellent contributions to New Grove , in addition to various other articles. His collec- Schmidt-Kolbe system, Louf system, McIntyre system, etc. tion of clarinets was legendary, as was his willingness to show them to visitors and to share his knowledge and Thanks to the advances of digital photography, the catalogue is beautiful and impressive, with excellent observations. When the Shackleton collection of musical instru- colour photographs of most of the clarinets, including many details; the descriptions are rudimentary but useful. ments arrived in Edinburgh last summer, the museum director, Arnold Myers, 
TI - The Shackleton collection
JF - Early Music
DO - 10.1093/em/cam153
DA - 2008-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-shackleton-collection-CmYHtobcMd
SP - 160
EP - 161
VL - 36
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -