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Eleanor Smith-Guido
Eleanor Smith-Guido
Eleanor has a proven track record both as a published researcher, and as an excellent public speaker at conferences. She is experienced in the field of organology and musicology, particularly how the development of instruments can affect written music. She had gained a reputation in the field for high attention to detail, as well as an ability to disseminate her research to a variety of audiences.
Eleanor’s primary area of research is in organology – particularly (but not limited) the history of the development of keyboard instruments. Her doctoral studies on the history and use of the claviorgan also sparked an interest in the development of opera and continuo practice in both theatre and salon performances of early operas. Although primarily working in the research field in recent years, she has experience teaching both organology and musicology at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Eleanor has nearly 20 years’ experience working with musical instrument museums and historical keyboard instrument, starting in the Musical Instrument Museums in Edinburgh as a curatorial assistant, with significant roles in the Musical Instrument Museums Online (MIMO) and Drawing to Scale projects, as well as day to day duties in the museums coordinating with researchers and performers, and cataloguing experience of the Mirrey (keyboard) and Shackleton (woodwind) collections.
Between 2015-2017 she worked closely with Belgian piano-maker Chris Maene as part of the Erard 1803 project based at the Orpheus Instituut in Ghent. Most recently, she has been working with archives relating to historical Swedish organs and organ building and/or conservation practices in Sweden in the 20th Century, as well as teaching organology, specifically the history of the construction of keyboard instruments, to Masters level conservation students in Cremona, Italy.
Retaining her connections with the Musical Instrument Museums Edinburgh, despite her current positions in Sweden and Italy, Eleanor was the Chair of the Friends of St Cecilia’s Hall and Museum until May 2025: a charity which supports activities within the collections, as well as Early Music performance and organological study. In Sweden, she serves on the board of Klaverens Hus, the Swedish piano-building Collection, Lövstabruk. She is also member of ICOM-MUSIC (the musical instrument branch of ICOM), the Galpin Society, and the American Musical Instrument Society.
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