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The Catgut Acoustical Society Library |
| File #: | B6680 |
| Name: | Bodley, Nicholas Bessaraboff |
| Dates: | d. 1973 |
| See also: | B8151 - Bram, Marjorie. |
| General Information: |
| Nicholas Bessaraboff is the author of the definitive book "Ancient European Musical Instruments, An |
| Organological Study of the Instruments in the Leslie Lindsey Mason Collection at the Museum of Fine |
| Arts Boston" (October House 1964). When he first heard all the Violin Octet instruments he became |
| very excited and said that this was the treatment that the violin family had needed for a long time. |
| Marjorie Bram (MacPhillamy) taped an interview with Bessaraboff which is in the CAS Newsletter. |
| Bessaraboff originally came to the USA during the first world war as an agent for the Russian |
| Government to purchase arms. He was also a waldhorn player in the Russian Army Band. He stayed |
| here and developed his long-time interest in early musical instruments and helped to catalogue those in |
| the above collection. During the second war he changed his name to Bodley. He died in NYC in 1973. |
| Wife: Virginia, Son: Nicholas, Daughter: Elizabeth. |
| File Contents: |
| B6680 | -- | 101 |
| Correspondence: 1966-1974 involving Nicholas Bessaraboff Bodley, Elizabeth Blaker Bodley (daughter), David |
| Boyden, Marjorie Bram, R.E. Fryxell, CMH and James Pruett. Includes news clipping and some |
| biographical material. |
| Key Words: |
| B6680 | -- | 102 |
| Correspondence: with Bodley family, mainly son, 1974-1987. |
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| B6680 | -- | 103 |
| Transcription of taped interview with Bessaraboff (Bodley) on 4/26/67. Participants in interview |
| included Marjorie Bram, CMH and Lewis Wilson. Also a considerably edited version of the |
| transcription used as a basis for article in CAS Newsletter. The published version of the interview. |
| Biographical information addressed by Bessaraboff (Bodley) to Marjorie Bram. Dust jacket of the |
| Bessaraboff book. An article on Bessaraboff (Bodley) and his book. Newspaper notice of his death. |
| Key Words: |
| B6680 | -- | 104 |
| Technical: "The Auloi of Meroe", Amer. J of Archeology (1946); "Two Main Types of Arching", |
| (1967), a translation of part of book by Anatolii Ivanovich Leman - published in CASNL #8. |
| Key Words: | Violin arching | Ancient wind instruments |