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Photograph: eric mcgavin showing visitors instrument parts
Photographs of wind instrument demonstrations and musicians including eric mcgavin and gervase de peyer
Photograph: eric mcgavin and gervase de peyer with a basset horn
Photographs of eric mcgavin's instruments and stands designed for students with disabilities
Photograph: rough sawing of grenadilla logs
Photograph: eric mcgavin and gervase de peyer with a basset horn
Photograph: eric mcgavin and gervase de peyer with the 1851 carl boosé clarinet

Photograph: boxwood clarinets
Photograph: eric mcgavin and gervase de peyer with a conch shell
Photograph of eric mcgavin, les sanders and students from hemel hempstead grammar school during a visit to an instrument factory
Photograph: six clarinets (rear view)
Photograph: eric mcgavin and gervase de peyer with a musical conch shell

Eric mcgavin demonstrating the vocal horn to students visiting the boosey & hawkes museum
Photograph: instrument maker balling valve casings on a cornet (brass instrument similar to a trumpet)
Photograph: eric mcgavin and gervase de peyer

Photograph: tenor trombone with a double slide
Photograph: eric mcgavin and gervase de peyer
Photograph: eric mcgavin and gervase de peyer

Photograph: eric mcgavin demonstrating the double slide trombone he developed for use by musicians with physical disabilities
Photographs: gervase de peyer
Photograph: gervase de peyer and eric mcgavin

Eric mcgavin displaying a clarinet for students visiting the boosey & hawkes museum

Photograph: cutting wood with a table circular saw at boosey and hawkes' edgware factory
Photograph: eric mcgavin and gervase de peyer talking

Photograph: acker bilk and others at a trade exhibition with a boosey & hawkes drumkit
Photograph: factory worker adjusting a key mechanism
Photograph: gervase de peyer and eric mcgavin listening to the conch shell in the boosey & hawkes museum

Photograph: group of six clarinets (front view)
Photograph: trumpet testing

Eric mcgavin demonstrating the clarinet to students visiting the boosey & hawkes museum

Photograph: group of six clarinets (rear view)
Photographs: eric mcgavin demonstrating a 'singing blackboard' (an interactive musical blackboard)

Photograph: eric mcgavin duetting with gervase de peyer who is playing with the 1851 carl boosé clarinet

Eric mcgavin demonstrating the musical conch shell to gervase de peyer
Duet between eric mcgavin and gervase de peyer (who is holding the 1851 carl boosé clarinet)

Photograph: school pupil blowing into a serpent horn
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