Arnold Myers

Professor Arnold Myers is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Professor Emeritus of the University of Edinburgh. He also serves as President of the Galpin Society. His work focuses on the intersection of musical acoustics and the history of brass instruments, with a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh developing acoustically-based taxonomic classification techniques for brass instruments.

Education: PhD from the University of Edinburgh (dissertation on brass instrument taxonomy).

Research interests include:

• Musical acoustics
• Brass instrument history
• Instrument taxonomy
• Museum curation of musical instruments

Awards:

• 2023 Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize
• 2018 Anthony Baines Memorial Prize
• 2014 Christopher Monk Award
• 2014 Frances Densmore Prize
• 2007 Curt Sachs Award

Advising: Accepting PhD students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Previously curated the Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments.

Labs/Teams: Active in the Royal Conservatoire’s SHARE research network, collaborating internationally on acoustic and historical musicology projects.