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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.

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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...