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This catalog site is designed so that it can be searched by keyword, collection, type of instrument, and date. It contains information on instruments in the possession of Duke University, with the exception of modern practice and performance pianos.
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Dr. Brenda Neece, DPhil (Oxon.)
Curator, DUMIC
Box 90665
Durham, NC 27708-0665
USA
Tel: 919-660-3320
Fax: 919-660-3301
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Welcome
Welcome to the official Duke University Musical Instrument Collections (DUMIC) website. This site is designed to function as an online, database-driven catalog of the musical instrument collections at Duke.
Instruments, recordings, and printed materials are still being added to this catalog. If you have any questions or comments about the contents of this site or of the collections, please contact the curator, Dr. Brenda Neece (bneece@duke.edu).
The website was designed by David Wehrs, a Duke University alumnus. For other examples of his work, or for more information, he can be contacted at david.wehrs@duke.edu.
Special Exhibit: Romanian Musical Instruments at DUMIC
This exhibit is the result of the research of scholar Ioana Sherman and features the newly arrived Romanian instruments, some of which were discussed in her September 14, 2007 Rare Music Program entitled "Transformation and Totalitarianism: The Case of the Romanian Caval and Fluier."
Please click here to see our special exhibit
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April 11, 2008
4 PM
Rare Book Room
Perkins Library, Duke University West Campus
Don Eagle
with Deborah Hollis
Duke faculty member and world-class trumpet player (& member of the North Carolina Symphony) Don Eagle will perform on several cornets from DUMIC’s Eddy Collection. He will be assisted by pianist Deborah Hollis.
What Can a Modern Singer Learn from Early Instruments?
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Posted 151 days ago
March 28, 2008
4 PM
Rare Book Room
Perkins Library, Duke University West Campus
Penelope Jensen
with Deborah Hollis, Rebecca Troxler, and Brenda Neece
What did those singers who performed the music of their contemporaries, Bach and Schubert for instance, sound like? How did they use their voices? We can begin to answer that question by listening to the instruments of their time. Soprano Penelope Jensen will be joined by Deborah Hollis playing a Baroque-style portative organ and a piano from DUMIC’s Eddy Collection built by Muzio Clementi in London c.1810. Rebecca Troxler will bring her baroque flute and Brenda Neece her 5-string cello piccolo to play arias of J.S. Bach. With the Clementi, you will hear songs written in London c.1810 by William Linley and lieder of Schubert from that era.
About DUMIC
The Duke University Musical Instrument Collections(DUMIC) are founded on the flagship collection, the G. Norman and Ruth G. Eddy Collection of Musical Instruments, which arrived here in Durham in 2000. The Eddy Collection has inspired further generous gifts and the acquisition of the Frans and Willemina de Hen-Bijl Collection of Musical Instruments, which arrived at Duke in 2003. While the Eddy Collection consists primarily of instruments and paintings of instruments from America and Europe, Duke’s de Hen Collection includes over 200 musical instruments from all over the world. The de Hen Collection together with the Eddy Collection and other individual gifts make up the DUMIC.
It is the aim of DUMIC to provide students, scholars, performers, and interested members of the public with access to these instruments in order to foster awareness and interest in music of the past and an understanding of the complex network of interrelationships among the areas of cultural history, composition, performance, and the art of instrument making. Highlights include instruments from the time of Mozart and Beethoven, the American Civil War, and instruments from around the world, including objects from the Middle East, Africa, South America, and Asia.
The maintenance of the Eddy Collection at Duke is made possible through the generosity of the Ethel Sieck Carrabina Fund.