Discover St Cecilia’s Hall and Musical Instrument Collection!

Almost 50 new open licensed videos that celebrate the unique, world famous, historical St Cecilia’s Hall and Musical instrument collection. This series of videos were created by the Educational Design and Engagement team in collaboration with museum curators Sarah Deters and Jenny Nex, and conservator Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet, as well as a group of world-class musicians.
Discover the Instruments
25 demonstration videos in which world-class players give you a snippet of the weird and wonderful instruments in the Collection, and an insight into their history.
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History and Development of the Hall and Collection
15 videos in which specialist staff at the Museum tell you about the rich history of the Hall, instrument making, tuning, conservation and lots more!
Concerts at St Cecilia’s Hall
6 concert performances showing how the Collection represents and celebrates cultures from across the world, all performed in Scotland’s oldest purpose-built Concert Room.
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These lectures created by by staff at The University of Edinburgh, are available under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alije licence.
Header Image: Screenshot from ‘Popular Piano’ video