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SUMMARY:General Thompson’s Enharmonic Guitar - Dr James Westbrook\, Wolf
 son College
DTSTART:20141112T130000Z
DTEND:20141112T140000Z
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CONTACT:Graham Allen
DESCRIPTION:“Nothing so utterly breaks me down\, as lots of concerts. Ev
 en one is for the most part a burthen. The truth is\, I have little or no 
 music in me...” \n\nHow can someone with ‘little or no music’ in him
 \, be worthy of an academic music paper? The answer is that the author of 
 the quotation above\, Thomas Perronet Thompson (1783–1869)\, worked in l
 eague with Louis Panormo\, the leading guitar-maker of nineteenth-century 
 London. Furthermore\, Thompson’s resulting publication\, Instructions to
  my Daughter\, for playing on the Enharmonic Guitar although a disguise fo
 r what is actually a complex mathematical treatise\, contains organologica
 l concepts\, which may have had a long-term influence on the design of the
  guitar. There is a little bit for everyone: A Cambridge connection\, hist
 ory\, political economics\, mathematics\, organology\, and... a splatterin
 g of music to boot. \n
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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