Jeremy Montagu (1927–2020)

Jeremy Montagu is former curator of the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments and lecturer at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford. He is also the show more president of the Galpin Society, the premier international society for the study of musical instruments, and the author of a variety of books on musical instruments, including Musical Instruments of the Bible (Scarecrow Press, 2001), Origins and Development of Musical Instruments (Scarecrow Press, 2007), and Horns and Trumpets of the World (Rowman Littlefield, 2014). A resident of Oxford, England, he has blown the shofar in synagogues since the early 1960s. show less