Notes relate to instrument tuning at Boosey & Hawkes' Edgware factory.
Two sheets of notes in Eric McGavin’s hand, entitled ‘Short Sockets and Tuning’, relating to clarinet manufacture and tuning
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Brazil, Amazon Channel 6 hrs below Serra do Valerio. Clearing and launch (Am 9)
Slide showing the process of silk string manufacture by Rihzhon Khojakhanov and his family
35mm slide: Probably view from hotel window
Hart Museum Visitor Books
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