St Cecilia’s Hall Museum: Sampler Instrument and GUI Design
As part of the Learning and Access Project at St Cecilia’s Hall Museum, Tam was commissioned to make a ‘Sampler Instrument Collection’ of some of the museums instruments and to design the software for the Graphical User Interface (GUI). The collection of historic musical instruments held by St Cecilia’s Hall Museum ranks among the world’s most important collections of musical heritage, including some 50 of the world’s best-preserved early keyboard instruments.
The ‘Sampler Instrument Collection’ is housed in a kiosk designed by StudioSP. Since its installation in june 2012 it has been a great success with visitors to the museum allowing both adults and children find out more about the instruments and to play their sound.
Below are recordings of the sampler instruments as played by Andrew Woolley. Andrew Woolley lectures at the University of Edinburgh Music Department. His research focuses on music in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Britain.
“The Sampler Instruments sound like the real thing big time!” – Andrew Woolley, 2012
Mozart, Adagio from Sonata in B flat, K. 570
Grand Pianoforte, Johann Friedrich Kulbors, Breslau (Wroclaw). c 1805
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Francesco Geminiani, Sonata for Violin and continuo in A minor,
Op. 4 no. 5 (1739), third movement, arr. Andrew Woolley
Double -Manual Harpsichord, Robert Falkener, 1773
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Courante Daphne from the ‘Leningrad’ manuscript (c.1650)
Almande Brun Smeedelyn from the Susanne Van Soldt manuscript (1595)
Enharmonic Virginal. Attributed to Francesco Poggio, Florence, c 1620
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Almande de La Nonette from the Susanne Van Soldt manuscript (1595)
Almande from the Susanne Van Soldt manuscript (1595)
Single-Manual Harpsichord, Bernardinus de Trasuntinis, Venice, 1574
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Allemande in D major from the ‘fitt for the manicorde’ manuscript (c.1685)
Triple-fretted Clavichord, anon, probably Flemish, 1620
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More information about the museum collection can be found at www.miayf.org. You can also play the Clavichord online here.
