Rediscovering the RCM Clavicytherium

Name: Rediscovering the RCM Clavicytherium
Start: 2025-06-24 09:15:00
Location: RCM Museum

Dates
24 June 2025, 9:15am

Venue
RCM Museum

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24 June 2025, 9:15am

Venue
RCM Museum

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Join our research event at the RCM Museum for an interdisciplinary conversation on the earliest surviving stringed keyboard instrument.

Performers, musicologists, art historians and musical instrument makers will gather to explore its original context of use and repertoire, as well as its potential for new historically informed performances and artistic research.

The event will feature paper sessions, a masterclass discussion with performers and a final concert with the RCM students and the 1973 copy of this iconic instrument.

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Royal College of Music
Prince Consort Road
London SW7 2BS

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   South Kensington: 0.5 miles
   Gloucester Road: 0.6 miles
   High Street Kensington: 0.8 miles

Paddington: 1.5 miles
Victoria: 2 miles

Santander Cycles docking station and public cycle locking facilities adjacent to RCM

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The RCM provides light refreshments throughout the year. There is also a range of restaurants, cafés and other establishments nearby, most adjacent to South Kensington station.

RCM Café

The RCM Café serves barista-style coffees, sandwiches, snacks, salads and hot food. There is also access to outside seating in our new 1851 courtyard.

Opening hours:

Monday-Friday: 8.30am-4.30pm

Saturday: 8.30am-4.30pm (term time only)

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The main entrance to the RCM has eight steps up from the pavement and two inside the main doors. A lift is available for visitors with limited mobility. The lift is built into the smaller staircase to the left of the main entrance steps. There is an intercom button on the control panel, which can be seen and reached easily from the street. On arrival, press the buzzer to notify a member of RCM staff, who will come out to meet you and operate the lift for you.

All our event venues can be accessed by visitors with limited mobility via the lift at the main entrance.

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