Professor Arnold Myers
Professor Arnold Myers is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and a Professor Emeritus of the University of Edinburgh; he serves as President of the Galpin Society. His Edinburgh University doctorate developed acoustically based techniques for taxonomic classification of brass instruments.
He has contributed articles to the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, and chapters for The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments and The British Brass Band: a Musical and Social History (Oxford, 2000). He co-authored Musical Instruments: History, Technology and Performance of Instruments of Western Music (Oxford, 2004) and The Science of Brass Instruments (Springer, 2021). He was one of three editors of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments (2018) and the author of 86 of its articles.
His research is at the interface of musical acoustics and the history of brass instruments. He formerly worked as Curator and Director of Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. He was the recipient of the 2007 Curt Sachs Award of the American Musical Instrument Society, the 2014 Frances Densmore Prize of the American Musical Instrument Society, the 2014 Christopher Monk Award of the Historic Brass Society, and the 2018 Anthony Baines Prize of the Galpin Society.