CIMCIM newsletter (International Committee of Musical Instrument Collections)
Numéro de la source
vol. 12
Résumé
This article dealt with the documentation of musical instruments in museum collections and outlined the various techniques which have been applied to instruments in order to extract information from them and to record it for posterity. The point was made that the majority of the more technical methods were often carried out by conservators during treatment of the instruments. The following eight categories were considered: written, graphic, template, photographic, radiographic, acoustic, holographic and analytical. The categories were then examined in more detail.
