Robert Barclay
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Robert Barclay graduated from the University of Toronto in 1975 with an
Honours Degree in Fine Arts. He has worked at the Canadian Conservation
institute in Ottowa since graduating, specializing in the care and
preservation of musical Instruments. His trumpet-making activities
combined a life-long love affair with the trumpet with a fondness of
making thins out of metal. He has been making reproductions of
historical trumpets for more than 15 years and has made intensive
studies of the original techniques of manufacture.
Robert Barclay
Born: 1946, London, England
Pseudonym: Fecit
Nationality: English
Genre(s): Music
Personal
Born July 17, 1946, in London, England; married
Janet Mair Fenwick (a
craftsperson), January 24, 1971; children: Anne,
David, Heather, Ian.
Education
University of Toronto, B.A. (with honors), 1975.
Career
Canadian Conservation Institute, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada, senior
conservator of ethnology, 1975--. Trumpet-maker
and instructor in brass-instrume making; conservator of
museum artifacts, specializing in musical
instruments.
Memberships
International Institute for Conservation,
International Council of Museums, Canadian Association of Professional
Conservators, Historic Brass Society.
Sidelights
Robert Barclay told CA: "I work at the Canadian
Conservation Institute in Ottawa, Canada, specializing in the
care and preservation of musical instruments. I
taught summer courses in Toronto for several years on the
making of brass instruments, including trombones,
trumpets, and slide trumpets. Aside from professional museum
work, I have been a trumpet-maker for more than
fifteen years and have made an intensive study of the
traditional techniques of natural trumpet
manufacture in the city of Nuremburg, Germany. I have produced more
than twenty-five baroque trumpets based on a
Nuremburg instrument of 1632, many of which are in the
possession of trumpet players in Europe, Canada,
and the United States.
"I am now researching tone formation in historic
instruments made in Nuremburg to establish criteria for
assessing the playing quality of the originals
compared with that of accurate copies. My particular concern is in
authentic instrumentation as used in performances
of Baroque music. The natural trumpet of the Baroque period
is particularly in need of revival as a working
instrument for both live performance and recordings. Information
derived from this research may result in more
players finding the natural trumpet an acceptable instrument for
virtuoso performance.
"I am also the contributor of a regular column on
museum conservation and the editor of a journal, both of which
look at the lighter side of the conservation
profession."
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