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The MIMO website has been freshened up. Please read more about the MIMO project in the "about" menu!

The Cité de la Musique wants to share brand new photos of two instruments with you!

 

Professor Arnold Myers from the University of Edinburgh will give a presentation on the MIMO project to the 39th Annual Meeting of the America Musical Instrument Society on 27th May, 2010 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

This Friday, 21st of May, Dr. Frank Bär will give a short presentation
during the conference MAI 2010 (Museums and the Internet) at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg.

For more information, please see: http://www.mai-tagung.de/

Our project coordinator Norman Rodger from Edinburgh published another nice little clip on the MIMO project. It is available on youtube.com or you can watch it here on our site. See how the musical instruments of MIMO's Scottish collection are photographed. I think that this video nicely illustrates the logistical effort which is necessary to take a photograph. Hopefully, this effort is not visible when you see actual photograph.

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Newsletter No. 2 is released. Please subscribe for getting the newsletter per mail or download the PDF on the "Results" menu in your chosen language.

Apologies for partly missing exact dates in the list of conferences, as these where not yet available at the newsletter release. Please have a look on the outreach activities site and check regularly, the conferences will be announced there with the current dates.

Read about MIMO:

Startschuss zur digitalen Erfassung der Musikinstrumente in europäischen Sammlungen. In: KULTUR lebendig. Ed. Volkmar Hansen im Auftrag des Vorstands des Arbeitskreises selbständiger Kulturinstitute e.V. (AsKI), 1/2010, p. 16.

Today, the Tagesspiegel, one of Berlin's leading newspapers, ran a feature on MIMO with the funny title "a sail boat with strings".

A TV report about MIMO focusing on the Musical Instrument Museum at Grassi Museum in Leipzig and Germanisches Museum Nuremberg will be broadcastet via MDR on Wednesday 3.