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Schieffer Unveils The King Henry IV Violin
The violin by Antonio and Girolamo Amati (Cremona, ca. 1595), bearing
the armorials of King Henry IV of Navarre and France (1553-1610) that was
presented to the NMM on May 14, 2010 by Kevin Schieffer (Sioux Falls), was
revealed to the public in its new display case on September 24, 2010. The
timing of the unveiling, which took place during the annual fall Member and
Trustee Reception, was scheduled in honor of the 400th anniversary of the
requiem mass held for King Henry IV in the Medici family church of San
Lorenzo, in Florence, Italy, on September 16, 1610. The royal violin, along
with its 18th-century case made during the reign of Louis XVI, can now be
seen during regular museum hours.
Visit the NMM website for additional images of The King Henry IV violin,
its unveiling, and an account of the annual Member & Trustee Reception.
"To have assembled the world's premier collection of musical instruments and to deploy them with such taste enriches the culture of our country and of mankind itself. From 16th-century Amati violins to 18th-century Portuguese pianos to the great American guitars by Gibson, the breadth of the National Music Museum's collection represents a wonder not just o f m u s i c b u t o f civilization." — James Leach, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities November 8, 2010
“Chairman Leach was, I think it’s fair to say, based on his reaction at dinner tonight, overwhelmed with the qual i ty of the instruments and the breadth of the collection there, so that’s one more great tribute to the University of South Dakota.” —Tom Brokaw, NBC News Special Correspond-ent and USD Alumnus, in speech given at USD, September 29, 2010
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Margaret Downie Banks, Editor.
©National Music Museum, 2010.
Photo by Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet
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Volume 37, Number 3 www.nmmusd.org December 2010
Bob Carlin, Lexington, North
Carolina, conducted extensive
research about Regal Musical
I ns t r u m e nt s (1 8 9 5 - 1 9 5 5 ) ,
consulting both the Musical
Instrument Manufacturers’
Archive (MIMA) and the NMM’s
instrument collection.
Ken Drobnak, Director of Bands,
South Dakota School of Mines
(Rapid City) conducted on-going
research about the Holton
Company and euphoniums for a
presentation at Wayne State
College (Wayne, Nebraska).
Wayne Jones , Evansville,
Indiana, searched the Felix
Vinatieri Music Archive for
compositions to be arranged and
performed by his Civil War
re-enactment band. Jonathan and Faye Kellerman,
California, best-selling authors
and guitar collectors, toured the
NMM with Arian Sheets, Curator
of Stringed Instruments.
Jennifer Newberry, USD graduate
student, conducted research
about Leblanc clarinet produc-
tion for her M.M. in musicology.
Rolf Olson, USD Professor of
Music, and Dave Reynolds, Chair,
Music Department at South
Da ko ta Sta te Univers ity
(Brookings), examined brass in-
struments and archival materials
from the Holton Collection in
preparation for a presentation at
the International Trumpet Guild
convention to be held in
Minneapolis in May 2011.
Rainer Beilharz and John
Simmers, violin makers from
Australia, spent several days
examining stringed instruments
in the Witten-Rawlins Collection.
Kendra van Nyhuis, USD under-
graduate student, conducted
on-going research about bamboo
flutes for her Senior honor’s
thesis.
Lynn Wheelwright, Clearfield,
Utah, conducted extensive
research about the manufacture
of plucked stringed instruments.
James Leach, Chairman of the National
Endowment for the Humanities, visited the
NMM on September 29, prior to addressing
the campus community at the Al Neuharth
Media Center. His lecture, “Civility in a
Fractured Society,” was presented as part of
a fifty-state “American Civility Tour:
Bridging Cultures.”
Leach is the ninth chairman of the NEH,
an independent grant-making agency of the
U.S. government, dedicated to supporting
research, education, preservation, and public
programming in the humanities.
NMM staff and members of the NMM
Board of Trustees accompanied Leach on his
tour of the galleries. [Read more on NMM website!]
Bill Willroth, Sr., Vermillion, retired in
November after eight years as the
NMM’s official photographer. His photo-
graphic legacy includes thousands of
digital images of musical instruments
that will continue to be seen on the
NMM’s website and in organological pub-
lications for many years to come. The
entire staff extends its gratitude and best
wishes to Bill as he focuses upon more
relaxing pursuits.
As you do your estate planning, please
don‟t forget to include the National Music
Museum. The care and preservation of
the NMM‟s great collections is an awe-
some responsibility. Your help is needed,
if we are to meet the challenges of the
future. Become a member of The Amati
Society!
Sally Fantle Archival Research Center
Guestbook
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
December 10. Holiday Brass, South
Dakota Brass Quintet. 12:05 p.m.
January 28. Klassic Klarinet Klezmer,
Deborah Check Reeves (USD) & John D.
Check (University of Central Missouri).
12:05 p.m.
February 8, 15, 22, March 1. Histories
and Mysteries at the NMM, OLLI Class
with Deborah Check Reeves.
March 4. Fingerstyle Fireworks, Bill Mize
and Beth Bramhall (Gatlinburg,
Tennessee). 12:05 p.m.
March 18. Returning and Returned,
Michael Mandrell (Portland, Oregon).
12:05 p.m.
March 18-20. Gamelan Workshop with
Joko Sutrisno.
March 25. An Eclectic Musical Journey,
Curtis Teague & Loretta Simonet
(Minneapolis). 12:05 p.m.
James Leach, NEH Chairman, Visits NMM Galleries
Bill Willroth, Sr. Retires as NMM Photographer
Catherine Stearns Addresses Cultural Diplomacy
Photo by John Koster
Michael Tsalka Records Daniel
Türk Sonatas on Five Historic
Keyboards at NMM Michael Tsalka, Professor of
Harpsichord and Chamber Music at the
Escuela Superior de Música (National
Center for the Arts), Mexico City, recorded
twelve sonatas by Daniel Gottlob Türk at
the NMM in August. Five of the NMM’s
historic keyboard instruments will be fea-
tured in a two-CD set to be published on
the Naxos label. [Read more on NMM website!]
C a t h e r i n e
Stearns, a Pub-
l i c A f f a i r s
Advisor to the
Assistant Secre-
tary of State for
E d u c a t i o n a l
and Cultural
Affairs, Wash-
ington, DC,
spoke about the
value of cultural
diplomacy at
the annual NMM Member & Trustee
Reception on September 24. [Read more on
NMM website!] Photo by Aaron Packard
NEH Photo by Greg Powers and Audrey Crewe
BEHIND THE SCENES
The NMM welcomes
Jonathan Santa
Maria Bouquet,
who joined the
NMM staff as a
Conservation Re-
search Assistant on
N o v e m b e r 2 2 .
B o u q u e t w i l l
continue creating
technical drawings
of selected musical
instruments. He has already begun the tech-
nical documentation of the NMM’s bass viola
da gamba (later converted into a cello) made
in the Stradivari workshop in Cremona, Italy,
ca. 1730.
Congratulations to
John Koster, Conserva-
tor and Professor of
Music, who was named
the USD College of
Fine Arts Distin-
guished Professor for
2010-2012. In October,
he was presented with
the 2010 President’s
Award for Research
Excellence in the
Established Faculty
category. [Read more on website!]
Sarah Deters Richardson, Curator of Musical
Instruments, joined Jonathan Santa Maria
Bouquet and former conservation intern,
Jimena Palacios Uribe, in Mexico City in
November, where the three colleagues
presented papers at a conference attended by
museum specialists, musicologists, and
conservators. [Read more on website!]so
Curatorial Commentary
Click on Links Below to Read Articles Posted on the
NMM Website
“A „Lot‟ of Love: A Love Story
Forever Preserved at the NMM”
By Deborah Check Reeves
“C. G. Conn‟s Double-Wall
Wonder Clarinets”
By Margaret Downie Banks
“The Grace of Imperfection:
Jarana Primera by the Legend-
ary Maker Carlos Escribano”
By Jonathan Santa
Maria Bouquet
“The Objects of Research: The
Documentation of Musical
Instruments at the NMM”
By Jonathan Santa
Maria Bouquet
“Measuring Sound: BIAS
Aid s Und ers ta nd ing o f
Brass Instruments”
By Sabine K. Klaus
“How Did They Do It? Musical
Instrument Making Tools at
the NMM”
By Arian Sheets
“A Visit to Andy Taylor‟s
Trumpet Workshop”
By Sabine K. Klaus
Michael F. Suing, a 2009 graduate of the
NMM’s M.M. program in the history of
musical instruments, is a Curatorial Research
Fellow in the Department of Musical Instru-
ments at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
where he co-authored the recently published
book, MFA Highlights Native American Art
by Gerald W. R. Ward, Pamela A. Parmal,
Michael Suing, Heather Hole, and Jennifer
Swope (Boston: MFA, 2010).
News and Notes
• Douglas Yeo’s new DVD,
Approaching the Serpent: An Histori-
cal and Pedagogical Overview (2010),
filmed at the Utley Collection in
South Carolina, is available for pur-
chase through the NMM Gift Shop.
• The commemorative guitar
donated by South Dakota Governor
Mike Rounds in March is now on
display in the Everist Gallery.
• President Clinton’s saxophone is
back on display in the Everist
Gallery, following its annual summer
loan to the Presidential Wax
Museum in Keystone, SD.
• Have you seen the list of the
NMM’s most recent acquisitions on
the website?
Photo by Aaron Packard
Recent Staff Publications
Sabine K. Klaus
“The Joe R. and Joella F. Utley
C o l l e c t i o n o f H i g h B r a s s
Instruments: A Trumpeter’s Dream
Comes True,” International Trumpet
Guild Journal 34, No. 4 (June 2010):
38-45.
“Trumpet in B-flat by Joseph
Lathrop Allen,” in “Historical
Instrument Window,” International
Trumpet Guild Journal 35, No. 1
(October 2010): 56.
“Zinkengrößen. Überlegungen zur
historischen Terminologie,” in
Mozart im Zentrum. Festschrift für
Manfred Hermann Schmid zum 60.
Geburtstag, ed. by Ann-Katrin
Zimmermann and Klaus Aringer
(Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 2010):
423-438.
John Koster
“Among Mozart’s spättischen
Clavier: a Pandaleon-Clavecin by
Frantz Jacob Spath, Regensburg,
1767?,” Early Keyboard Journal 25
(2007-2008; published in 2010): 153-
223.
“Stringed-Keyboard Instruments in
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-
Century Spain,” in Susanne Skyrm,
ed., Anthology of Eighteenth-Century
Spanish Keyboard Music for Organ,
Piano, Harpsichord, or Clavichord
(Colfax, North Carolina: Wayne
Leupold Editions, 2010): v-vii.
“The Harding Bible Organ in
Perspective,” The Organ Yearbook
38 (2009): 17-43. Editor, The Historical Harpsichord,
Volume Five: Aspects of
Harpsichord Making in the British
Isles (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon
Press, 2010).
Deborah Check Reeves
“Historically Speaking [Conn
double-wall clarinets],” The Clarinet
37, No. 3 (June 2010): 26-27.
“Historically Speaking [Cundy-
Bettoney Silva-Bet clarinet],” The
Clarinet 37, No. 4 (September 2010):
28-29.
“Historically Speaking [Cundy-
Bettoney Boston Wonder clarinet],”
The Clarinet 38, No. 1 (December
2010): 20-21.
Photo by Aaron Packard
John Koster, Conservator and Professor of
Music, recently completed an extended
research trip to Europe, where he participat-
ed in several scholarly conferences, met with
numerous professional colleagues, and
examined instruments in various collections.
[Read more on website!]sound
Arian Sheets, Curator of Stringed Instru-
ments, was interviewed about The King
Henry IV Amati violin by Paul Guggen-
heimer for broadcast on his SDPB radio
show, “Dakota Mid-Day,” September 23.
1 Cornet (#3)
The Earliest Surviving
Brass Instrument
by Conn & Dupont
1 Saxophone (#16)
The Earliest Surviving
American-Made Saxophone
(by Conn)
TYPES OF ANNUAL
MEMBERSHIPS
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* Sustaining ...................................................... $250
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Fellow .......................................... $50,000 or more
Connoisseur ............................... $100,000 or more
Angel ........................................... $250,000 or more
Elegance ..................................... $500,000 or more
Founder .................................. $1,000,000 or more
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MEMBERSHIP
PRIVILEGES
Membership in the NMM offers the tangi-
ble benefits of special invitations to previews
and receptions, concerts and special events,
gift shop discounts, the Newsletter, and re-
search services. More importantly, it offers
the intangible rewards of being associated
with a unique institution, one of the great
museums of its kind in the world.
Membership dues and contributions are
tax deductible, within the limits provided
by law, and directly assist in supporting the
many public services of the NMM.
NMM BY THE
NUMBERS What Makes the NMM
Unique?
1,138 Instruments Made by
24 Different Manufacturers
in Elkhart, Indiana
740
Instruments by
Conn & Pan
American
158 Instruments
by Buescher
54 Instruments
by Martin
Band
Instruments
53 Percussion
Instruments
by Leedy and
Ludwig
1 Flute
Made in Elkhart for the
Movie, The Music Man
OLLI‟s “Histories and Mysteries
at the NMM” to Be Presented Why do the bells of Civil War brass
instruments point the same direction as
their mouthpieces? How can a piano
sound like a drum? Why does the
Hardanger fiddle have eight strings?
How can bagpipers sing while they play?
Members of
the Osher Life-
long Learning
I n s t i t u t e
(OLLI) will
soon have the
opportunity to
uncover the
answers to
these and other
m u s i c a l
m y s t e r i e s
while attend-
ing the first OLLI course ever to be
offered at the NMM. Deborah Check
Reeves, Curator of Education, will meet
with registered OLLI members for two
hours every Tuesday afternoon (2-4 PM)
from February 8-March 1, to lead them
in this exciting new experience.
OLLI’s intellectually engaging and
enriching classes, workshops, activities
and events, designed for lifelong learners
age 50 and up, are being offered in
Vermillion for the first time this winter.
Learners of all ages, from all back-
grounds, and levels of education are
welcome to register for the NMM’s class.
Visit www.olliuc.org for information
about how to become a member of South
Dakota’a OLLI and register for
“Histories and Mysteries at the NMM.”
Class size will be limited, so be sure to
register early. For further information
about the Bernard Osher Foundation,
which supports South Dakota’s OLLI,
visit www.osherfoundation.org.
The NMM in Print
Andrew Dipper and Claire Givens, “Fit
for a King,” The Strad 121, No. 1446
(October 2010): 26-34.
Kenneth Drobnak, “A Catalog of Upright
Tubas by Frank Holton & Company at
the National Music Museum (USA),”
ITEA Journal 38, No. 1 (Fall 2010): 92-
96.
Kenneth Drobnak, “The Process of
Cataloging an Unsigned Tuba,” ITEA
Journal 37, No. 4 (Summer 2010): 46-47.
Craig Kridel, “Resurrecting the Bass
Cornetto,” ITEA Journal 38, No. 1 (Fall
2010): 86-88. Mentions cornetti in the Joe
and Joella Utley Collection.
David Lias, “400-year-old Violin
Unveiled at National Music Museum,”
Vermillion Plain Talk (October 1, 2010).
“The National Museum of Music [sic]
Receives a Violin by Antonio and
Girolamo Amati Bearing Armorials of
King Henri IV of Navarre and France,”
France-Midwest Express Retrospective
(August/September 2010).
Corinne Ramey, “The Power of 8,” The
Strad (November 2010): 41-44. Features
images of all the instruments in the
NMM’s Carleen Hutchins Violin Octet.
Sonya Szabo Reynolds, “From the New
World . . .,” The Dvorák Society For Czech
and Slovak Music Newsletter 93 (October
2010): 4-5. Review of the NMM website’s
virtual tour, “Muzika! A Celebration of
Czech and Slovak Music.”
“Violin Strings Together French Past and
American Future,” News from France: A
Free Monthly Review of French News and
Trends 10.07 (September 30, 2010): 8.
About presentation of the King Henry IV
Amati violin to the NMM, published by
the French Embassy Press and Communi-
cation Service, Washington, DC.
The C. G. Conn Archive
Photo by Aaron Packard