Bates Collection of Musical Instruments
Address
Faculty Of Music,
Saint Aldate's, Oxford,
Oxfordshire
South East
OX1 1DB
Faculty Of Music,
Saint Aldate's, Oxford,
Oxfordshire
South East
OX1 1DB
About
The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, in the Faculty of Music at Oxford University, is the most comprehensive collection in Britain of European woodwind, brass and percussion. The Bate has over 2000 instruments from the Western orchestral music traditions from the renaissance, through the baroque, classical, romantic and up to modern times. More than a thousand instruments are on display, by all the most important makers and from pre-eminent collectors.
There are on display more than a thousand instruments, by all the most important English, French and German makers, which show the musical and mechanical development of all wind and percussion instruments from the Renaissance and the Baroque to modern times.
For opening hours and more information please see the website.
Prices
Admission Free
