The Galpin Society JOURNAL NUMBER LI JULY 1998 CONTENTS Editorial Obituaries: Dr David Kenneth Rycroft: 1924-1997: PAULINE HOLDEN Ruth Dyson: 1917-1997: viRGINIA PLEASANTS Hugh Gough: 1916-1997: JOHN KOSTER & JOHN BARNES Carl Frédéric Dolmetsch: 1911-1997: EDGAR HUNT David Henry Kenneth Wainwright: 1929-1998: PAULINE HOLDEN Sonido Rajado: the Sacred Sound of Chilean Pifilca Flutes: JOSE PEREZ DE ARCI Analysis of the Sound of Chilean Pifilca Flutes: H. A. K. WRIGHT & D. M. CAMPBELI The Capture of the Chekker: DAVID KINSELLA Innovation and the Development of the Modern Six-string Guitar: DARRYL MARTIN Jurors of the Guild of Musical Instrument Makers in Paris: JOHN N. HUNT Mozart and the Pianos of Johann Andreas Stein: MICHAEL LATCHAM Historic Keyboard Instruments of the Academic Orchestra in Lund: BENJAMIN VOGEI A Biographical Index of Viennese Wind-Instrument Makers, 1700-1800: RICHARD MAUNDER Notes & Queries The Galpin Organ (PAULINE HOLDEN) The Cornophone as Wagner Tuba (}OHN WEBB) The Eliphone - a ‘Retreating Reed’ (j}EREMY MONTAGU) Braccio Tunings (HERBERT MYERS Standard (HERBERT MYERS THOMAS SHERWOOD Liolin ((OHN CATCH Silkworm Moth (DAVID LASOCKI Web Site ISSN 0072.0127 Editorial Reading thr st year’s Editorial, I am struck by the two salient features 1 i there by the then editor, Dr David Rycroft. They are - the deat former editor of the Galpin Society Journal, Dr Anthony Baines, at bration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Society, y the publication of Journal number ‘L’. Though David R learly not in the best of health when I first read his editoria M /7, | think that none of us expected that he would no longer | to edit, in his own scholarly way, Journal ‘LI’. A splendid te to his passing is recorded here by the Secretary, Miss August 1997, together with several Officers of the Society yur Way to Forest Row to a fitting memorial service of remembr thanksgiving for the life of someone who had given so much to t ty. Having been Reviews Editor for just over a year, I was greath) red and moved by the request of the officers present that I sho ver as Acting-Editor. I agreed to consider the matter, but was co! of the line of editors who had held the post in past ind particularly David, could be considered as ‘a hard ertheless, the words of T. S. Eliot, when being magazine in 1950 kept coming to mind: ‘The years venty are the hardest [I am 69]. You are always being