Contents include a timeline documenting the history of the clarinet and its manufacture from 1756, notes on brass and woodwind instrument classification (this may have been a draft of text for a Boosey & Hawkes leaflet), notes entitled 'The Boosey & Hawkes Collection of Historic Wind Instruments' (in these McGavin records the contents and historical and institutional importance of the Boosey & Hawkes museum collection) and notes relating to an exhibition of instruments at Bell Vue.
Exercise book containing notes by Eric McGavin
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