programme

The workshop is intended to be a focal point of both national and international coordination for the research of new technologies applied to musical instruments.


April 14, Thursday: preventive conservation and software tools, applied Diagnostics
09.15

introduction

10.00
Roberto Regazzi
The use of Wikimedia software in the web data sharing process between makers, restorers and conservators of musical instruments
10.30
Emanuele Marconi
Microsoft access© based conservation form used in the civic museum of musical instruments in Milan
11.00
Laura Bognetti – Arnold Myers
Update on progress:
MIMO - Musical Instrument Museums Online
11.30

coffee break

11.45
Lamberto Tronchin
The emulation of nonlinear musical instruments by means of Volterra series
12.15
P. Vandervellen – D. Houbrechts
Piano’s forgery revealed by dendrochronology
12.45
lunch

14.00
Giuseppe Maino
Proposal:
Dating musical instruments: a proposal for investigation
14.30
Camilla Panebarco
Proposal:
Virtual solution for enhancing knowledge and fruition of musical instruments
15.00
Jean-Philippe Echard
Structural, chemical and mechanical imaging applied to the conservation of musical instruments
15.30
Claudio Canevari - Marco Malagodi

Micro-distructive sampling techniques on historical musical instruments: analysis and new results
16.00
David Mannes
X-ray and neutron imaging as complementary non-destructive methods for investigations of historical brasswind instruments
16.30
Adrian Von Steiger
Looking over the Instrument Maker's shoulders.
Methods of material analysis of production technology for brasswind instruments
17.00
Nicola Sodini
Synchrotron radiation microtomography of bowed stringed instruments: the 1753 violin by G.B. Guadagnini


April 15, Friday:  Bologna Museums Tour
08.40 train from Ravenna
09.46 arrive to Bologna

10.30  visit to Tagliavini collection, S. Colombano, Bologna. The visit will be possible from 10.30 to 12.30
13.00  visit to Museo della Musica., Bologna. Guided tour.