<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[American Musical Instrument Society]]></title><description><![CDATA[An international society for the study of the history, design, and use of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/amis-blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:07:53 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.amis.org/es/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to amis.org! ]]></title><description><![CDATA[- A note from AMIS President, Janet K. Page - Welcome to the AMIS website! AMIS is an organization that provides a meeting place for all...]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/greetings-and-salutations</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5bb297e61465a210d1fc75f9</guid><category><![CDATA[AMIS News]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2023 22:42:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a27d24_d9b0af0667654baca59d4edf499bcba1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_944,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>AMIS Blogs</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devanney Haruta wins 2026 Frederick R. Selch Award]]></title><description><![CDATA[Devanney Haruta (Brown University) has received the 2026 Frederick R. Selch Award for her paper “A Matter of Life and Death: Performance, Preservation, and Instrumental Ethics in Musical Instrument Museums,” read at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society at the National Music Museum, Vermillion, SD, Thursday, May 28, 2026.]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/devanney-haruta-wins-2026-frederick-r-selch-award</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3594243306f881e523163a</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:11:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_9d9246e0a9a44be8a606b19354292775~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lauterbach Strad]]></title><description><![CDATA[https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/looted-lauterbach/?ref=thebrowser.com]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/the-lauterbach-strad</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a25802943d3e9ae32a2e752</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:30:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_f23e365a0d314ee1b2b83191a87c84bd~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frances Densmore Prize awarded to Mark Katz]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Densmore Prize Committee is pleased to award the 2026 prize for the most distinguished article-length publication in English that furthers the goals of the Americal Musical Instrument  Society to Mark Katz, for his article “The Great War, the Little String, and the Transformation of Modern Violin Playing,” published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society (vol. 77, no. 1, 2024, pp. 65–102). The near-universal adoption of the steel violin E string between 1918 and 1921 stands...]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/frances-densmore-prize-awarded-to-mark-katz</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a219cfdde6a4fa1b1f28424</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:50:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_cfccdfb9799c4d63958a166fd74576ed~mv2.avif/v1/fit/w_960,h_960,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[2026 Bessaraboff Prize awarded to JoE Silva]]></title><description><![CDATA[The American Musical Instrument Society is pleased to award the 2026 Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize to JoE Silva for The Minimoog Book: The Synthesizer That Changed Music Forever; Sounds, Stories, and Technology (Denmark: Bjooks Publishing, 2024). Silva’s volume succeeds remarkably as both an accessible, visually compelling book and as a substantive scholarly study of the Minimoog’s origins and first fifty years. The Minimoog Book is rich with high‑quality archival images, technical...]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/2026-bessaraboff-prize-awarded-to-joe-silva</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a219b2ede6a4fa1b1f28074</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:39:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_1fe162de1189498791b740ea60d9d791~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sabine Katharina Klaus receives the 2026 Curt Sachs Award]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Board of Governors of the American Musical Instrument Society takes great pleasure in naming Sabine Katharina Klaus as the recipient of the 2026 Curt Sachs Award. 	 Sabine Klaus completed her MA in musicology in 1990 and received her PhD in musicology from Tübingen University in 1994, with a five-volume dissertation based on her study of early keyboard instruments at the Münchner Stadtmuseum. She held assistant curatorial positions at museums in Basel, Nuremberg, and Vienna, and received...]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/sabine-katharina-klaus-receives-the-2026-curt-sachs-award</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2196a4e3c740ba3636b894</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:31:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_b26c694f9e8a43839d1eaac1e0422c42~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_512,h_512,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Program for AMIS 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[The program for AMIS 2026 is now available in the latest issue of the AMIS Newsletter. https://www.amis.org/newsletter]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/program-for-amis-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fa48a72528aeae0147cac6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 19:46:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_2a2102f28ed5441ebb716a949e244cc6~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMIS Newsletter 55, no. 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[AMIS Newsletter 55, no. 2 (Spring 2026) is now available. In it, you'll find the preliminary program for the 2026 meeting, award winners, and news of collections, projects, museums, and AMIS members.]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/amis-newsletter-55-no-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f956f0b27e981e27c5b9da</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 02:38:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_b4c81cae7687466497c880bf5bcd0595~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_860,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall Newsletter 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Fall 2025 AMIS Newsletter  is now online! Vol. 54, issue 3, includes a report of the meeting in Savannah, news of members, institutions and organology projects, and the call for papers for the 2026 meeting. https://www.amis.org/newsletter]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/fall-newsletter-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690df8a76509164f21aeceb2</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:49:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/24a870_900888acdf2647f285db5d30b95055e9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Dexter Edge</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMIS 2025 meeting]]></title><description><![CDATA[A revised program schedule with abstracts is now available on the meeting page.]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/amis-2025-meeting</link><guid isPermaLink="false">680af8a802e22389d106b55b</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 02:55:23 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[2025 Densmore Prize awarded to Jayson Dobney]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 2025 Frances Densmore Prize is awarded to Jayson Dobney for his article “Side Drums, Race, and Power in North America,” Journal of...]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/2025-densmore-prize-awarded-to-jayson-dobney</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67ed2abff9329bec87adb887</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:24:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_def7c7cd5f5c4bfd81dab42ce6aca0d5~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_200,h_200,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[2025 Bessaraboff Prize awarded to James Westbroook]]></title><description><![CDATA[The American Musical Instrument Society has chosen James Westbrook’s  Guitar Making in Nineteenth-Century London: Louis Panormo and his...]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/2025-bessaraboff-prize-awarded-to-james-westbroook</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67ed299f9fed29845b3e6605</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:15:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_e37bcf0657d64d54aa4d4b284dd1b825~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friedemann Hellwig receives 2025 Curt Sachs Award]]></title><description><![CDATA[Friedemann Hellwig The Board of Governors of the American Musical Instrument Society has named Friedemann Hellwig as the 2025 Recipient...]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/friedemann-hellwig-receives-2025-curt-sachs-award</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67ed288d80f421b02c93ba50</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:09:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_1b1b9af6e63c4f6a96e758f37786497a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_660,h_445,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMIS Newsletter 54, no. 1]]></title><description><![CDATA[The AMIS Newsletter , vol. 54, no, 1 (Winter 2025) is now online! Read about the upcoming meeting and catch up with news of colleagues,...]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/amis-newsletter-54-no-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67cf4a396ee571608c130b01</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:50:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_10a1789cab3d456eb94bc6d377b72db2~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Registration for the 2025 AMIS meeting is open!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Register for AMIS 2025 at https://www.amis.org/2025-meeting]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/registration-for-the-2025-amis-meeting-is-open</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67cd76e8b1797c58cdb0a615</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 11:14:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_ca783efc80764984a363a232b46956ea~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_450,h_581,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read the Fall 2024 Newsletter!]]></title><description><![CDATA[https://www.amis.org/newsletter]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/read-the-fall-2024-newsletter</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66ff121a404247dfa411f538</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 21:54:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_9e9f449820504895914609e34dbc86a1~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMIS 2025 Call for Papers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Call for Papers American Musical Instrument Society Annual Meeting: June 3–7,  2025 Georgia Southern University, Savannah, GA The  2025 ...]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/amis-2025-call-for-papers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66fefe0c8c2c3f174811bc3d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:28:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_07c75e51162f458bb055bb508db161f3~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_910,h_766,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMIS 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[The 2025 AMIS meeting will be held in beautiful and historic Savannah, Georgia, at Georgia Southern University, June 3–7, 2025. Georgia...]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/amis-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66c3941481743d596fe78e28</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 18:53:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_e46d2a1435cd4ceab212191579d8ded1~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_800,h_599,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AMIS at MIM]]></title><description><![CDATA[AMIS had a wonderful time at MIM! Thanks to Matt Zeller and his team for making the meeting such a success. Photo: Aurelia Hartenberger]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/amis-at-mim</link><guid isPermaLink="false">667e95d5c1e44e96f4261fbd</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:00:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_b3325f7653084389b21705a29742e84d~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patrizio Barbieri honored with the 2024 Curt Sachs Award]]></title><description><![CDATA[AMIS announces that the recipient of the 2024 Curt Sachs Award is Patrizio Barbieri. Patrizio passed away on January 31, 2024. Patrizio...]]></description><link>https://www.amis.org/post/patrizio-barbieri-honored-with-the-2024-curt-sachs-award</link><guid isPermaLink="false">665a41917933a055f5596425</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 21:38:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/adc670_cf14624585ec4edc9994b02fb792c37d~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_961,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Janet Page</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>