The Castle Museum, York has a collection of well over a hundred woodwind instruments dating from the early eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.
These notes were made during ‘preventative maintainance’ some years ago, for a preliminary catalogue of the collection. They supplement G.B.Wood's general guide to the Music Gallery, 1953.
The unrevised draft of this catalogue can be viewed here, supplemented by an introductory article.
Section I : Introduction. Development. Materials, mechanisms and manufacture
Section III : Types of Instrument
Section IV : Checklist of Instruments
Pictures
(In preparation.)