Benedict Koehler talk in Boston

Steve Bliven · Post by **Steve Bliven** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:34 am

For people in the Boston area, on the evening of 6 August Benedict Koehler is giving a talk at the Museum of Fine Arts. Details at http://www.mfa.org/calendar/event.asp?e ... e=8/6/2008

This is a series of informal talks and performances in the Musical Instruments gallery.

Best wishes.

Steve

Jumper · Post by **Jumper** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:54 pm

Here are a couple of photo albums of this event:

http://picasaweb.google.com/nakaishii51/BKTheMFA

http://picasaweb.google.com/nakaishii51 ... etAtTheMFA

PJ · Post by PJ » Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:55 pm

Great photos.

Paul Reid · Post by **Paul Reid** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:41 am

Thanks for posting those. Great room!!

tommykleen · Post by **tommykleen** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:22 am

I am not familiar with the set that BK is showing. Is it from the museum's collection?

T

PJ · Post by PJ » Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:27 am

I think it's an Egan set. It's part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston - http://www.mfa.org/

tommykleen · Post by **tommykleen** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:37 pm

PJ wrote:I think it's an Egan set. It's part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston - http://www.mfa.org/

Sorry, i meant this one:

http://picasaweb.google.com/nakaishii51 ... 5982221602

T(aylor)kleen

rorybbellows · Post by **rorybbellows** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:16 pm

Does BK ever wear anything other than jeans and denim shirt ?

RORY

tommykleen · Post by **tommykleen** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:28 pm

rorybbellows wrote:Does BK ever wear anything other than jeans and denim shirt ?

RORY

...seems to work for him. Dress for success, I say!

Jumper · Post by **Jumper** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:01 pm

tommykleen wrote:I am not familiar with the set that BK is showing. Is it from the museum's collection?

I'm guessing it's a Taylor set that is in BK's care, perhaps for restoration. He also shows the famous Willie Rousome set that recently passed through the hands of Jim Maguire, Dr. Blevins, and Kevin Rowsome.

The Taylor set appears to have been subjected to much the same treatment as the Touhey/Carney/Busby/McKeirnan Taylor set, with a decorative edge filed into the reg keys and an "anti-f*rt" valve on the mainstock.

And is that a theramin embedded in the bass drone resonator?

Elmek · Post by **Elmek** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:30 am

Nice photos and inteersting looking pipes. The Boston Museum Egan was discussed a year or so ago on the forum and the general opinion based on the photos was that it had probably been misassembled to create the differential bass regulators . Did BK confirm this.

The Taylor set - along with the theremin bass drone are the keys profiled to give a saw tooth wave

Why do all these intersting talks have to be anywhere but the UK

John