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This catalog site is designed so that it can be searched by keyword, collection, type of instrument, and date. It contains information on instruments in the possession of Duke University, with the exception of modern practice and performance pianos.
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Dr. Brenda Neece, DPhil (Oxon.)
Curator, DUMIC
Box 90665
Durham, NC 27708-0665
USA
Tel: 919-660-3320
Fax: 919-660-3301
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John Pringle
John Pringle
John Pringle has spent the last thirty years helping to recreate the sounds of music from past times by building stringed instruments based on historical models from the 12th to the 18th centuries. As a professional luthier, his specialty is the viola da gamba, but he has also built early violins, medieval fiddles, lutes, citterns, liras and lirones. Recently his interest has turned to the music of the Far East, and tracing the origins of the instruments of China and Japan back through India and Central Asia to Mesopotamia and the Middle East.