Delivered as part of the Dissertation Festival, 30 October 2020

Musical instruments can help us to understand why music is the shape it is within any culture in the world. They also tell us about material culture, craft skills, technology, acoustics, economic structures, business practices and any number of other facets of human behaviour. This session introduces some of the possibilities offered by the Musical Instrument Collection at the University and highlights how you could go about adding musical instruments to your own research.