Black and white prints of Eric McGavin playing and demonstrating wind and brass instruments, including the clarinet and a conch shell. Includes photographs of McGavin demonstrating the horn and other brass instruments to school children and at the Boosey & Hawkes Museum and McGavin performing a duet with clarinetist Gervase de Peyer.
Photographs of wind instrument demonstrations and musicians including Eric McGavin and Gervase de Peyer
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Hart's Museum Visitor Books
The Horniman Museum New Lecture Hall and Library. Drawing 2
Slide of Sourje in the pouring rain
35mm slide: Interior of schoolhouse. The name of the village [reached at 14.00 according to the log book] is Longyun (Dragon Cloud).
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