Francis William Galpin
Church of England clergyman, musicologist, and antiquary
Francis William Galpin (25 December 1858 — 30 December 1945) was an English cleric of the Church of England, antiquarian musicologist, collector of antique musical instruments, archaeological antiquarian, naturalist, and local historian.
Quotes
edit- When completely dry the plant should be mounted on stiff white paper. The size depends on the purpose of the collection; paper 17 in. by 10 in. will be found useful and workable, and can be obtained from most printers. It is a bad system to fasten the specimens on with glue or gum, as it renders it impossible to shift the mount, and finer parts of the flowers are destroyed. The writer has found that very thin strips of parchment, cut with wider ends, laid across the stoutest parts of the plant and fastened to the paper with strong cement, form a most easy and effectual way of mounting with the least possible unsightliness.
- An Account of the Flowering Plants, Ferns and Allies of Harleston: With a Sketch of the Geology, Climate, and Natural Characteristics of the Neighbourhood. Bartlett, & Company. 1888. (to which are added Observation on the Birds of the District by Charles Candler)
- That the Sackbut was the predecessor and counterpart of the Slide Trombone of the present day is a matter of common knowledge, but, when we come to unravel the origin of the name, we are landed at once into the region of wild conjecture. Some writers have wisely passed the subject over in silence; others have propounded solutions more plausible than probable.
- (1906). "The sackbut, its evolution and history". Proceedings of the Musical Association 33 (1): 1–25. DOI:10.1093/jrma/33.1.1. (quote from p. 1)
- Of ancient stringed instruments there are, we may roughly say, two broad types; in one the strings are stretched across a sound-box and lie parallel to it—this we may call the ‘lyre’ type, though including, for our present purpose, the various forms of psaltery and guitar; in the other the strings are attached to the upper board of the sound-box and rise vertically from it—this is the ‘harp’ type.
- (February 1912)"The origin of the clarsech or Irish harp". The Musical Times, 1904-1995 53 (828): 89–92.
- Sir Leonard Woolley (Ur Excavations, vol. II, 1934) records that in the grave of the Prince Meskalamdug (c. 2700 B.C.) he notices close to the coffin a quantity of small "conical bosses" of thin cope sheeting, laid over wooden cores; with them there were plentiful traces of wood and also of some substance which looked like leather or skin; he suggests that they formed the remains of a drum.
- The Music of the Sumerians: And Their Immediate Successors, the Babylonians and Assyrians. Cambridge University Press. 2011. ISBN 0521180635. (pbk reprint of 1937 1st edition; written & illustrated by Francis W. Galpin)
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