Bate Collection of Musical Instruments facts for kids
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| Established | 1968 |
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| Location | St. Aldate's, Oxford, England |
| Type | University museum of musical instruments |
The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments is a special museum in Oxford, England. It holds many old and rare musical instruments. Most of these instruments are used for classical music. You can find them at Oxford University's Faculty of Music. This is near Christ Church on St. Aldate's.
The collection is open for everyone to visit. Students can also study the instruments by making an appointment.
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What is the Bate Collection?
The Bate Collection has over a thousand instruments. These include many different wind and percussion instruments. They show how instruments have changed over hundreds of years. You can see instruments from the Renaissance period right up to today. The museum often has special events and exhibitions.
Who Started the Collection?
The collection is named after Philip Bate. He loved musical instruments and gathered many of them. In 1968, he gave his amazing collection to Oxford University. He had one main condition: the instruments must be used for teaching. He also wanted a special curator to look after them. This person would also teach about the instruments. The museum also keeps Philip Bate's old papers.
What Kinds of Instruments Are There?
The Bate Collection is home to many unique instruments. It includes the Reginald Morley-Pegge Memorial Collection of Horns. There are also other brass and woodwind instruments. You can find the Anthony Baines Collection and the Edgar Hunt Collection of Recorders. The museum also has many keyboard instruments. These include the Taphouse Keyboard Loans and the Roger Warner Keyboard Collection.
A complete workshop of the famous English bow-maker William C Retford is also part of the collection. This shows how bows for string instruments were made. There is also a small collection of bows made in his memory.
Images for kids
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This oil painting of Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) is in the collection.
See also
In Spanish: Colección Bate de instrumentos musicales para niños
