Text prepared by Eric McGavin for Boosey & Hawkes publications principally on the subject of instrument care and music education. Some of these short essays, such as 'Care and Maintenance Brass Instruments’, were published by Boosey Hawkes. Titles included in the file include (item numbers in brackets):
Buying Secondhand Instruments (211)
Repairs (212)
Forming a Brass Ensemble (213)
Care and Maintenance- Brass Instruments (214)
The Problems of Forming an Instrumental Group in the School (215)
Planning Instrumental Music in the School (216)
Untitled essay on school orchestras and woodwind groups (218)
Quality of Sound (223)
NOTE: item 217 is unaccounted for.
'Buying Secondhand Instruments' and other texts prepared for Boosey & Hawkes' corporate publications
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Colour positive film of expedition team members pulling boat up river from rocks at side of river and from in the river
object | ARC/GUP/004/120
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Members of the group photographing in Kunming at the Bamboo Temple
object | ARC/BAL/004/001
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Mario - see 397/1408-10 & 397/667
object | ARC/DEZ/397/0020
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Horniman Museum and Gardens Posters: Education: Free Lectures: Winter Term, 1933
object | ARC/HMG/PR/001/003/004
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