28 - Interview with Dr. Sabine Klaus: The Utley Brass Collection at the National Music Museum

The Early American Brass Band Podcast

Episode 28 is our great conversation with Dr. Sabine Klaus, the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Curator of Brass Instruments and Professor of Music at the National Music Museum, and University of South Dakota. We talk about her experience in the museum field, the history and development of the National Music Museum, the Utley Collection of brass instruments at the museum, and her books Trumpets and Other High Brass.

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Music in this episode comes from Our Musical Past from the Library of Congress.

Episode Structure:

• 2:29 - Dr. Klaus' background

• 14:19 - History of the National Music Museum

• 20:06 - How the museum grew and changed over time

• 22:27 - History of The Joe R. & Joella F. Utley Collection

• 32:48 - How cataloguing this collection led to Dr. Klaus' books and the online resources associated with the collection

• 35:19 - Moving the collection from South Carolina to South Dakota

• 37:51 - How the Utley collection is stored and displayed at the National Music Museum

• 45:20 - Highlights of The Utley Collection

• 50:19 - How the museum determines what instruments get displayed and what instruments get stored, new displays at the museum

• 53:28 - How the instruments in the museum are maintained

• 56:40 - Thoughts on restoring instruments vs. preserving them as physical objects, playing instruments in the collection

• 1:02:25 - Using an acoustic measuring device to predict how an instrument may sound if played to help determine the quality of an instrument

• 1:05:31 - Dr. Klaus' books Trumpets and Other High Brass

• 1:17:44 - Featured Album: Trumpets and Other High Brass DVD and audio examples