Bate, Philip

found: Grove music online, Feb. 8, 2013(Bate, Philip (Argall Turner); b. Mar. 26, 1909, Glasgow, d. Nov. 3, 1999, London; British organologist. His main career was spent in the music department of the BBC, first as a balance and control assistant (1934-1937), then as a studio manager and television producer (1937-1939, 1946-1956) and later (1956-1968) in senior training positions. He assembled an important collection of some 300 wind instruments and associated material which in 1968 he presented to the University of Oxford. The following year the Bate Collection of Historical Instruments was established at the Faculty of Music as a teaching assembly of historic instruments accessible to students. In 1946 he became founder-chairman and, from 1977 until his death, president of the Galpin Society. His main work was a valuable series of monographs on a wide range of wind instruments.)