ERC Starting Grant · 2020
Numerical Restoration of Historical Musical Instruments
The conservation, restoration and maintenance of rare and precious musical instruments is currently problematic, and will become increasingly so in the future: most instruments in museum collections are already out of playing condition, and deteriorating to the extent that their unique sounds will eventually be lost. Curators are well aware of the ethical problems associated with restoration and maintenance, and digital technology offers a solution to the problem of saving the sound of historical musical instruments. However, current digitisation practices are largely inadequate for a deeper understanding of musical instruments, as they have so far been limited to photogrammetric or…
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