What’s On at St Cecilia’s Hall

Dr Jenny Nex explores and examines the roles, lives and stories behind the often overlooked women who were instrumental in the making, selling and collecting of some of the instruments in the collection. Jenny Nex is Curator of the Musical Instrument Collection and Lecturer in Musical Instruments at the University of Edinburgh, where her research …

Join Dr Sabine Klaus as she explores the role of Madame Florentine Besson in the invention of the modern trumpet, with live demonstrations.   The origin of the modern piston-valve trumpet—the trumpet used in most countries today—is often associated with the French firm of Besson. But when and by whom was this iconic trumpet design …