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WELCOME

WELCOME TO THE BROCKTORFF PROJECT BLOG! SO THRILLED TO BE FINALLY LAUNCHING THE BROCKTORFF PROJECT! T his blog is intended to accompany a larger project on nineteenth-century music printing in Malta by the Brocktorff family of artist/lithographers.  Details of the whole project can be viewed on the page 'About the Brocktorff Project'.   Detail from a music title page printed by the Brocktorff family This blog will be l ooking at the different ways music was printed throughout its history, the way sheet music was bound, the ill treatment and neglect that music often suffers, and how conservators will very patiently intervene to preserve this precious paper heritage for the future.   I hope you will be looking out for these pages in the coming months! Really looking forward to sharing all this with you! :) Our thanks to:  APS Bank    www.apsbank.com.mt   Ganado Advocates   Mr Robert von Brockdorff   for kindly helping us commence this Proj...