Security for the Victoria & Albert Museum instruments

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We the undersigned request that attention be paid to the collection
of antique instruments in the possession of the Victoria and Albert
Museum, South Kensington, London, with reference to the proposed
removal from public display on 22/02/10. We request that all efforts
be made to prevent the instruments being put into storage, that,
should storage be unavoidable, it be for a finite, agreed period, and
that the secure fate of the instruments be decided before the display
is dismantled, delaying the 'decanting' of Gallery 40, if needed, to
protect and preserve these irreplaceable specimens.

4568 Signatures

  • Mike Parker
    • Comments
    • These precious and important instruments must be saved.
  • Richard Desmond
  • Julia Brook
    • Comments
    • В
  • Wendy Gillespie
    • Comments
    • В
  • Lewis Jones
  • Christina Paine
  • Ruth Holden
  • Mike Baldwin
  • Max Wilson
  • Barbara Brown
  • John Messenger
  • Ann Buckley
    • Comments
    • В
  • Fynn Titford-Mock
  • Ian White
  • Jan Leeming
  • Annabelle Juritz
  • Prof. Ketil Haugsand
    • Comments
    • Closing the Instrument Collection of the W&A will stow away priceless musical instruments in a miserable and degrading manner - and make the serious musical world - and Early Music in particular - bereft of exceedingly important organologic documentation! Some of these instruments are of the most unique specimens of their type - and robbing the public access to these is downright a State Crime! Alas - the attitude that allows decision-taking like this tells a lot about the ignorance and priority in an unmusical and partly uncultivated mind of the decision-makers! This should indeed not be allowed - and must be reversed, in order to prevent lasting damage and loss of objects we cannot afford to loose!
  • arild verstad
  • Jonathan Eastmond
  • Laura Mason Lockard
    • Comments
    • Please do not let this valuable resource go away!
  • Franz Silvestri
  • Robert Juritz
  • Lillian Gordis
  • Dr. Peter G. Watchorn
  • A. Visala
  • Hilde Kaspers
  • Mari Giske
  • Reynaldo Patino
  • Lynn Tabbert
  • Alfredo Boso
    • Comments
    • losing the signs of memory will eventualy lead to the lost of the memory itself. That's why preserving old instruments is not only moral but also useful for evrybody
  • Ouchtar
  • Edward B. Friday
  • Jose Carlos Oliveira
  • Daniel Buxeda Rodrнguez
  • Dr. Matthew Gardner
  • Helen Peeters
  • maria pendeva
  • Tony Hartley
    • Comments
    • music lover, Westmorland, England
  • Vania Dal Maso
  • Patricia GonzГlez FernГndez
    • Comments
    • В
  • Jeremy Kipnis
    • Comments
    • These instruments must be saved and preserved, otherwise (in a little while) there won't be any instruments to preserve!
  • Cynthia Hashemi
  • Catherine Wayland
  • Melissa Morgan
  • C. Vincent Pampinella
  • Giordano
  • ANNA CARLSEN
  • Katarzyna Kowalik
  • Ibo Ortgies, PhD
  • Ghislain Gourvennex