DARRYL MARTIN'S NEWS

My apologies to those who haven't seen much change on this page for a while. It always seems that there are many things to do, and the chance to update this page keeps getting put back, despite the other changes on this site. It has been a busy time of late, particularly with work at the collection, and will soon start again with the beginning of the next academic year next month. 

The University has been taking up a lot of time with many interesting things happening. During the summer there were two major conferences - the first being the clarinet symposium held in Edinburgh - nice to help organise a conference without giving a paper, and the second was the AMIS meeting in Yale, where I did give a paper. With a group of Edinburgh PhD students also giving papers it was an excellent meeting, very enjoyable. I also took the opportunity to stay in new haven an extra day to measure the Tielke guitar in their collection - one of the most beautiful of all guitars I have seen.
I am also busy on the research front with drawings - the one of the palmer orpharion should be completed very soon - certainly no later than September, and will be available from the Musikhistoriskmuseum in Copenhagen.

In the workshop things are still happening as well - both the Schiedmayer clavichord and the Danish humle are well underway. These should both be done by the end of the year. There are also a couple of interesting projects brewing in the not too distant future if all goes well.