Revision of The New Langwill Index

[Terry McGee]

Woah. This is like receiving a message from the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury that they are planning a new version of the Bible, would anyone like to add a couple of parables, revise Genesis to make it fit in with the archaeological record, or come up with a few new commandments!

"11. Thou shalt mop out thy flute as soon as thee is finished playing upon it."
"12. Remember to keep holy St Patrick's Day."

The message came in this morning, via CIMCIM:

Revision of The New Langwill Index: A Dictionary of Wind-Instrument Makers and Inventors (1993) for use in an Internet accessible database.
After receiving copyright permission from Elisabeth Waterhouse, Albert R. Rice has begun a revision of William Waterhouse’s The New Langwill Index using an OCR (Optical Character Recognition copy) that was made by John Watson, who with Michele Winter and other specialists has made corrections and a revision of the 3rd edition of Donal H. Boalch’s Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord 1440-1840 for the purpose of placing the information on a Database. Rice requests CIMCIM members and interested individuals to send their corrections, emendations, lists of woodwind and brass instruments and sources for the corrections to him at arrice@rocketmail.com. The entire process of corrections and the design and implementation of an Internet database will take place over a period of a minimum of three years. Please send corrections promptly so that they can be added.

Thank you, Albert (Al) Rice

I'm particularly excited by bit about "the design and implementation of an Internet database will take place over a period of a minimum of three years." That will make the NLI a) much more accessible to all, and b) much easier to search.

Many of us have noted inadequacies or even errors in the NLI over the years. The challenge now is can we bring them to mind?