CULTURES OF BRASS PROJECT
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The Cyfarthfa Project: The Instruments of the Cyfarthfa Museum
METHODS OF CATALOGUING The methods used in preparing this catalogue are based on those developed for the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments4. The cataloguing objectives have been described elsewhere'. Items which can be readily separated and used for their proper musical purpose are treated as separate entities for cataloguing purposes. Brass instrument mouthpieces are in practice frequently used for playing various brass instruments of the appropriate type: they are catalogued separately even when associated by manufacture or long usage with particular instruments. An instrument is described in the functional state in which it left the workshop of the maker or, if altered, of its last repairer. Any faults, broken or missing parts that have occurred since then are listed in the Faults field; any opinions about a former state are given in the Repair history field. There is a wide variety of practice amongst cataloguers with regard to the publication of measurements. The overall length is traditional in museum catalogues, and it is of use in the case of instruments which are illustrated to give an indication of scale. All measurements are given in international (S.I.) units. Consequently, physical dimensions are in millimetres. In general, overall sizes are given plus or minus 1 mm while bore diameters are given plus or minus 0.1 mm. The record for each instrument or mouthpiece is divided into fields. They have been drawn from the full set of fields used in the Catalogue of the Edinburgh University Collection. Fields in which no data was entered have been omitted from this published catalogue.
4. Arnold Myers (ed.), Historic Musical Instruments in the Edinburgh University v
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