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Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
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<p>The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments is a collection of historic musical instruments, mainly for Western <a href="/facts/Classical_music/oglVXmSb">classical music</a>, from the <a href="/facts/Middle_Ages/RqzEKB9v">Middle Ages</a> onwards. It is housed in <a href="/facts/Oxford_University/ExVVQL6V">Oxford University</a>'s <a href="/facts/Faculty_of_Music%2c_University_of_Oxford/d0261RcJ">Faculty of Music</a> near <a href="/facts/Christ_Church%2c_Oxford/2NYXMk3T">Christ Church</a> on <a href="/facts/St_Aldate%2527s%2c_Oxford/2AvN3ATs">St. Aldate's</a>. </p><p>The collection is open to the public and is available for academic study by appointment. There are frequent gallery events and special exhibitions. More than a thousand instruments by important English, French and German makers, are on display, showing the musical and mechanical development of <a href="/facts/Wind_instrument/w1af9f1t">wind</a> and <a href="/facts/Percussion_instrument/YojwA7VR">percussion instruments</a> from the <a href="/facts/Renaissance/4D9Bc6KU">Renaissance</a> to the current day. </p><p> The Bate Collection is additionally the home of the Reginald Morley-Pegge Memorial Collection of Horns and other <a href="/facts/Brass_instrument/UP94qM52">Brass</a> and <a href="/facts/Woodwind_instrument/JBMxaxyM">Woodwind Instruments</a>; the Anthony Baines Collection; the Edgar Hunt Collection of Recorders and other instruments; the Jean Henry Collection, the Taphouse Keyboard Loans; the Roger Warner Keyboard Collection; the Michael Thomas Keyboard Collection; a number of instruments from the Jeremy Montagu Collection; a complete workshop of the English bow-maker <a href="/facts/Retford_family_(bow-makers)/UySWmjC0">William C Retford</a>, as well as a small collection of Bows formed in his memory, the Wally Horwood Collection of books and recordings, and other instruments acquired by purchase and gift.</p> <p>An album, 'Voices From The Past, Vol. 2: Instruments of The Bate Collection' was released in 2015. </p>