Description
The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, in the Faculty of Music at Oxford University, is the most comprehensive collection in Britain of European woodwind, brass and percussion.
The Bate Collection consists of the original Philip Bate Gift of European Orchestral Woodwind Instruments, plus many other instruments given and lent by Philip Bate throughout his life; the Reginald Morley-Pegge Memorial Collection of Horns and other Brass and Woodwind Instruments; the Anthony Baines Collection; the Edgar Hunt Collection of Recorders and other instruments; the Jean Henry Collection, the Taphouse Keyboard Loans; the Roger Warner Keyboard Collection; the Michael Thomas Keyboard Collection; a number of instruments from the Jeremy Montagu Collection
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Features
- Free
- Host birthday parties: No
Features
On Site Parking
On Site Cafe
INSTRUMENTS
Information about each family of instruments along with checklists of the items in the collection can be found in the navigation menu on the left.
CHANOT FAMILY VIOLIN MAKING TOOLS
The Chanot family violin making tools were acquired by the Bate Collection in December 2015. The collection consists of near 800 tools, templates and patterns used by various members of the Chanot family dating back to the 18th century. The classification and cataloguing of the items is ongoing. The collection currently resides in the workshop of the Bate and is not yet on display to the public.
PEOPLE
Find out more about the people who were crucial to the foundation of the Bate Collection by clicking on the pages on the left
SOUNDFONTS
They have now created a series of soundfonts for some of the instruments in the Collection. These include iconic instruments like the Bressan recorder, the Beale trumpet, a serpent, viols, clarinets and flutes.
EDUCATION
The Bate runs hands-on education workshops for school groups, tertiary and further education groups, and home education groups. It also runs free special education projects for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds and on Pupil Premium, as well as group visits, family handling sessions and tours for life-long-learners. All group visits must be booked in advance. Please follow links on the left to sessions for schools.
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