Eleanor Smith-Guido
About Eleanor Smith-Guido
Eleanor Smith-Guido is a musicologist, organologist, and occasional soprano specialising in historical keyboard instruments, organs, and instrument-making history. She completed her PhD on the claviorgan at the University of Edinburgh in 2013.
She has nearly twenty years’ experience working with musical instrument museums, collections, and historical keyboard instruments, and is currently Associate Researcher at the University of Gothenburg on the ERC-funded Rem@ke project, where she works on organological research connected with keylever function as well as the wider Stein microecology.
Eleanor also teaches a course on the history and development of keyboard instruments for the University of Pavia.