American Musical Instrument Society/Galpin Society/CIMCIM Conference

National Music Museum

Vermillion, South Dakota

May 2006


Middle Eastern instruments


Side benders from the Harmony Guitar Co., Chicago


Tom in front of the Museum


Arnold Myers (Edinburgh) presents the Galpin Society’s Anthony Baines Memorial Prize to Laurence Libin


Darcy Kuronen, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Kathryn Libin, President of the American Musical Instrument Society


Buffalo Trace Winery


Laurence Libin is auctioneer for the scholarship fund auction.


Cynthia Adams Hoover, National Museum of American History


Tony Bingham, London antique dealer, and Michael Dempsey, curator of the Stearns Collection, Univ. of Michigan


Darcy Kuronen, Boston MFA, and Christiane Rieche, Handel-Haus, Halle an der Saale


Pig roast


Native American drumming, song and dance.
Oyate Singers, Wasa Wakpa/Vermillion.


Gabriele Rossi-Rognoni, Galleria Dell'Academia - Museu Degli Strumenti Musicale, Firenze (Florence)


Instruments by Gibson


The astounding Choralcelo


A beautiful deco guitar by D'Angelico