Edwardian Music Rooms in Scottish Great Houses
Featured image: Fyvie Castle Music Gallery (author’s own photographs) “Domestic music-making” means different things in different homes. Soundyngs learnt recently … Read more
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The Dupplin Cross: Harping on Kingship
In its summer visits, Soundyngs stood in front of a very beautiful thing in St Serf’s Church, in the Perthshire … Read more
James Watt, musical instrument maker, and the “James Watt Organ” dilemma
Soundyngs features in this post research by Dr Nina Baker, independent engineering historian, on the unexpected connections between the great … Read more
Historic organs in Scotland: a new online survey of surviving instruments
Sowne of Organe presents detailed surveys of surviving historic organs in Scotland. Each survey includes technical and historical overviews, extensive … Read more