Professor Emeritus of Music Henry Spiller has been awarded the 2026 Klaus P. Wachsmann Award for Best Publication in Organology by the Society for Ethnomusicology. The award was given for Spiller’s 2023 book, Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java: Bamboo Murmurs. The book explores how current residents of Bandung, Indonesia, have (re-)adopted bamboo musical instruments to forge meaningful bridges between their past and present — between traditional and modern values.
