CIMCIM Publication

Since its foundation in 1960 at the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris, the Comité International des Musées et Collections d'Instruments de Musique (CIMCIM) held nearly forty annual meetings in difference countries of the world to expand professional knowledge of its members and to exchange ideas and opinions which arise from daily work and research. The major topics of the past meetings show the needs of the museums and collections of musical instruments which vary according to the change of the time.
The papers compiled in this volume explore regional traditions in instrument making, the subject of the CIMCIM Conference 1996 in Vienna, Bratislava, Nagycenk and Budapest, not only from the viewpoint of museology but also from the viewpoint of organology, musicology, ethnology and sociology. The diversity of the subjects of the papers show the abysmal scope of the work of the experts who are concerned with the task of museums and collections of musical instruments.