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| location        = [[St Aldate's, Oxford|St. Aldate's]], [[Oxford]], [[England]]
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[[File:Clarinettes d'amour Bate.jpg|thumb|90px|left|Two [[Clarinette d'amour|clarinettes d'amour]] in the Bate Collection.]]

The '''Bate Collection of Musical Instruments''' is a collection of historic musical instruments, mainly for Western [[classical music]], from the [[Middle Ages]] onwards. It is housed in [[Oxford University]]'s [[Faculty of Music, University of Oxford|Faculty of Music]] near [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]] on [[St Aldate's, Oxford|St. Aldate's]].

The collection is open to the public and is available for academic study by appointment. There are frequent gallery events and special exhibitions. More than a thousand instruments by important English, French and German makers, are on display, showing the musical and mechanical development of [[Wind instrument|wind]] and [[Percussion instrument|percussion instruments]] from the [[Renaissance]] to the current day.<ref name="BCH">{{cite web|url=http://www.bate.ox.ac.uk/history/index.html |title=A short history |accessdate=2007-03-25 |work=The Bate Collection |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202114844/http://www.bate.ox.ac.uk/history/index.html |archivedate=2 February 2007 |url-status = dead|df=dmy }}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}} 

The Bate Collection is additionally the home of the Reginald Morley-Pegge Memorial Collection of Horns and other [[Brass instrument|Brass]] and [[Woodwind instrument|Woodwind Instruments]]; the Anthony Baines Collection; the Edgar Hunt Collection of Recorders and other instruments; the Jean Henry Collection, the Taphouse Keyboard Loans; the Roger Warner Keyboard Collection; the Michael Thomas Keyboard Collection; a number of instruments from the Jeremy Montagu Collection; a complete workshop of the English bow-maker [[Retford family (bow-makers)|William C Retford]], as well as a small collection of Bows formed in his memory, the Wally Horwood Collection of books and recordings, and other instruments acquired by purchase and gift.<ref name="BCH" />[[File:Orlando Gibbons.jpg|thumb|This oil painting of Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) is presently in the collection.]]
An album, 'Voices From The Past, Vol. 2: Instruments of The Bate Collection' was released in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |last=Desbruslais |first=Simon |title=Voices from the Past, Vol.2: Instruments of the Bate Collection, Oxford |url=http://www.classicalarchives.com/album/811204012344.html |website=ClassicalArchives.com |accessdate=29 December 2015}}</ref> 

== History ==
The collection is named after [[Philip Bate]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/content/articles/2006/12/19/bate_collection.shtml | title=Places feature — The Bate Collection] | work=[[BBC Oxford]] | publisher=[[BBC]] | location=UK | date=19 December 2006 }} (Dr Hélène La Rue tells how the collection's founder, Philip Bate, became involved in music.)</ref> who began giving his collection of [[musical instruments]] to the University of Oxford in 1963,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Short History |url=https://www.bate.ox.ac.uk/short-history |access-date=2022-03-19 |website=The Bate Collection |language=en}}</ref> on the condition that it was used for teaching and was provided with a specialist curator to care for and lecture on it.<ref>{{cite news| first=Hélène | last=La Rue | title=Bate, Philip Argall Turner (1909–1999) | work=[[Dictionary of National Biography|Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]] | publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] | date=2004 }}</ref> The collection also houses an archive of his papers. Dr Emanuela Vai [https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-emanuela-vai] leads on all conservation, research and curatorial aspects at the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments.


Bate Collection of Musical Instruments (former and current Curators and Conservators)

Dr Philip Bate; Dr Horace Fitzpatrick; Dr Anthony Baines; Dr Jeremy Montagu; Dr Hélèn La Rue; Mr Andy Lamb; Dr Emanuela Vai

== See also ==
* [[List of music museums]]
* [[Museum of Oxford]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Bate Collection of Musical Instruments}}
*[http://www.bate.ox.ac.uk/ Bate Collection website]
*[http://minim.ac.uk/index.php/explore/?filter Collection catalog]

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