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4900 historical woodwind instruments: an inventory of 200 makers in international collections by Phillip T. Young

Book description

Hardcover: 258 pages.
Publisher: London: Tony Bingham, cop.
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A Guide to Repairing Woodwinds by Ronald Saska

Book description

Spiral-bound: 273 pages.
Publisher: Roncorp, Incorporated (August 1987)
Language: English

 

 
Acoustical Aspects of Woodwind Instruments by Cornelis Johannes Nederveen (Author)

Book description

Paperback: 147 pages.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press; Rev Sub edition
Language: English

 

 
Acoustics in relation to wind instruments: A course of three lectures delivered at the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall by David James Blaikley (Author)

Book description

Unknown Binding: 38 pages.
Publisher: Boosey & Co; New Ed edition
Language: English

 

 
Air Columns and Tone Holes: Principles for Wind Instrument Design by Bart Hopkin (Author)

Book description

Unknown Binding: 42 pages.
Publisher: Experimental Musical Instruments; Rev. ed edition (1999)
Language: English

 

 
Análisis acústico del txistu y ajuste de intervalos by Aitor Amilibia / Jesús Alonso

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Publisher: Gobierno Vasco
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Antique Woodwind Instruments: An Identification And Price Guide by Peter H. Adams (Author)

Book description
This far-reaching and absorbing book is designed to help identify and value woodwind instruments made in Europe and the United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing upon the author's many years of research in the field, the book includes a brief history of European woodwind instruments made during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; biographies of important makers; a glossary of terms that will be a welcome help for the novice; a list of key systems; resources for obtaining further information from books, museums, societies, and online; and most importantly, information and nearly 300 images taken from over 20 trade catalogs printed between 1880 and 1930 in Europe and the United States. Featured among these is a complete translation of William Heckel's rare, circa 1930 catalog. This comprehensive volume is an outstanding resource for beginning and advanced collectors of musical instruments as well as for museum curators.

Paperback: 160 pages.
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing (January 1, 2000)
Language: English

 

 
Baroque Woodwind Instruments by Paul Carroll

Book description
A guide to the history of the four main woodwind instruments of the Baroque - the flute, the oboe, the recorder and the bassoon -complemented by a repertoire list for each instrument. It also guides those who are interested towards a basic technique for playing these instruments. A certain level of musical literacy is assumed. Advice is given on buying a suitable reproduction instrument from a market where now virtually any Baroque instrument can be obtained as a faithful copy.

Hardcover: 181 pages.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing; illustrated edition edition (August 1999)
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Die Blockflöte by Jan Bouterse

Book description
Tips für Anschaffung und Pflege, Stimmkorrekturen und Reparaturen, 84 S., Broschur

Broschiert: 84 pages.
Publisher: Edition Moeck 4058
Language: Deutsch

 

 
Flauta dulce. Un suspiro del alma by Horacio Fleitas

Book description

: 316 pages.
Publisher: Ediciones del signo. Buenos Aires
Language: Spanish

 

 
Flute Shop: A Guide to Crafting the Native American Style Flute by Russell A. Wolf (Author)

Book description
This manual provides detailed, step-by-step instructions and fully dimensioned drawings for crafting the unique flute of the American Indian. Included are plans for 6 different flutes including a drone or double flute. Also, the appendices contain charts, patterns, layout guides, history, music, discussions of materials and tools, and 11 pages of resources for builders and enthusiasts. About the Author. Russ Wolf is a former wood shop teacher and flute builder from Texas. A member of the International Native American Flute Association he is also a co-founder of the North American Plains Flute Society.

Plastic Comb: 109 pages.
Publisher: Wolf Song Publications
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Flutecraft: An Artisan's Guide to Bamboo Flutemaking by Mark Shepard

Book description

Unknown Binding: 51 pages.
Publisher: Tai Hei Shakuhachi; Tai Hei Shakuhachi ed edition (1994)
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Fünf Jahrhunderte Deutscher Musikinstrumentenbau by Hermann Moeck (Hrsg.)

Book description
Ein Jubiläumsbuch, 400 S. mit zahlreichen Farbtafeln und s/w-Abb., Leinen mit vierfarbigem Schutzumschlag

Turtleback: 400 pages.
Publisher: Edition Moeck 4039
Language: German

 

 
Gebräuchliche Verzierungen für das Querflötenspiel im Frankreich des 18. Jahrhunderts by Carla Christine Bauer

Book description
Eine tabellarische Übersicht, 16 S., Broschur

Taschenbuch: 16 pages.
Publisher: Edition Moeck 4023
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How to Love Your Flute: A Guide to Flutes and Flute Playing, or How to Play the Flute, Choose One, and Care for It, Plus Flute History, Flute Science, Folk Flutes, and More by Mark Shepard (Author), Anne Subercaseaux (Illustrator), Paul Horn (Preface)

Book description
Shepard's soul-felt passion for the flute resonates through his book like music. It's a comprehensive guide with something for everyone, from novice to professional, and so well written that it's a pleasure just to browse through it. This book inspires.

Paperback: 112 pages.
Publisher: Shepard Publications; Reprint edition (December 19, 1980)
Language: English

 

 
In Search of a Magic Flute: The Public Funding of Opera - Dilemmas and Decision Making by David Ranan (Author)

Book description

Paperback: 373 pages.
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing (April 2003)
Language: English

 

 
Instrumentos musicales de viento del litoral ecuatoriano prehispánico by Resfa Parducci Z. (texto), Julio Burgos (dibujos)

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Publisher: Guayaquil: Comisión Permanente para la Defensa del Patrimonio Cultural, 1982.
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La flauta en España en el siglo XIX by Gericó Trilla, Joaquín ; López Rodríguez, Francisco Javier

Book description

: 231 pages.
Publisher: Real Musical / Madrid
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Making and playing bamboo pipes (Reeves Dryad books) by Margaret C Galloway (Author)

Book description

Unknown Binding: 43 pages.
Publisher: Dryad Press; 5th ed edition (1971)
Language: English

 

 
Making Gourd Musical Instruments: Over 60 String, Wind & Percussion Instruments & How to Play Them by Ginger Summit (Author), Jim Widess (Author)

Book description
The authors introduce readers to make-it-yourself musical instruments. There is an amazing wealth of information here, covering not only how-to's and history but also extending into the social sciences and even science. We learn that pigeon flutes (crafted gourds attached to the birds' tails) were first mentioned about A.D. 1041 A.D. and that drummers are highly respected in India. Actual instructions on gourd transformations into spike fiddles, water drums, and even xylophones are included, along with a few photographs. But all the erudition tends to drown out the craft aspect, since instructions are sandwiched within the narrative text, and photographs are less than optimal. Nonetheless, a book that patient crafters will appreciate. Barbara Jacobs Historically, ethnic groups in many countries have used a great number of musical instruments made from gourds. In North America these instruments are used mainly by percussionists. Most of the step-by-step projects in this book by gourd artists Summit and Widess (The Complete Book of Gourd Craft) are for percussion or stringed instruments such as the Latin American guiro (gourd scraper) or the spike fiddle. There are also a few from the wind family, such as the fipple flute. These are legitimate musical instruments made from traditional materials, and they are fully playable as well as being beautifully crafted. Highly recommended for general crafts as well as ethnomusicology collections.

Hardcover: 144 pages.
Publisher: Sterling
Language: English

 

 
Making Gourd Musical Instruments: Over 60 String, Wind & Percussion Instruments & How to Play Them by Ginger Summit (Author), Jim Widess (Author)

Book description
The authors introduce readers to make-it-yourself musical instruments. There is an amazing wealth of information here, covering not only how-to's and history but also extending into the social sciences and even science. We learn that pigeon flutes (crafted gourds attached to the birds' tails) were first mentioned about A.D. 1041 A.D. and that drummers are highly respected in India. Actual instructions on gourd transformations into spike fiddles, water drums, and even xylophones are included, along with a few photographs. But all the erudition tends to drown out the craft aspect, since instructions are sandwiched within the narrative text, and photographs are less than optimal. Nonetheless, a book that patient crafters will appreciate. Barbara Jacobs Historically, ethnic groups in many countries have used a great number of musical instruments made from gourds. In North America these instruments are used mainly by percussionists. Most of the step-by-step projects in this book by gourd artists Summit and Widess (The Complete Book of Gourd Craft) are for percussion or stringed instruments such as the Latin American guiro (gourd scraper) or the spike fiddle. There are also a few from the wind family, such as the fipple flute. These are legitimate musical instruments made from traditional materials, and they are fully playable as well as being beautifully crafted. Highly recommended for general crafts as well as ethnomusicology collections.

Paperback: 144 pages.
Publisher: Sterling
Language: English

 

 
Making musical pipes by John Halliday (Author)

Book description

Unknown Binding: 24 pages.
Publisher: Dryad; 3rd. rev. ed edition (1935)
Language: English

 

 
Making Simple Musical Instruments: A Melodious Collection of Strings, Winds, Drums & More by Bart Hopkin (Author)

Book description

Paperback: 144 pages.
Publisher: Lark Books; New Ed edition (February 1999)
Language: English

 

 
Making the recorder flute by Vincent E Kurpan (Author)

Book description

Unknown Binding: 58 pages.
Publisher: Vincent Kurpan (1998)
Language: English

 

 
More Secrets of the Flute by Lew Paxton Price

Book description

Unknown Binding: 54 pages.
Publisher: L.P. Price (1997)
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Musical Acoustics: Piano and Wind Instruments by Earl L. Kent

Book description

Textbook Binding: pages.
Publisher: Academic Press (January 1977)
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Neanderthal Flute: Oldest Known Musical Instrument Plays Notes of Do, Re, Mi Scale by Bob Fink

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Niederländische Traversos und Klarinetten des 18. Jhds. by Rob van Acht, Jan Bouterse, Vincent van den Ende

Book description
Nach einer historischen Einleitung und Erläuterungen zur technischen Terminologie gibt es in diesem Buch biografische Anmerkungen zu mehr als 30 niederländischen Blasinstrumentenbauern.Die Sammlung niederländische Blasinstrumente des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts im Gemeentemuseum Den Haag ist weltberühmt. Das vorliegende Buch dokumentiert reichhaltig alle diese Kostbarkeiten. Nach einer historischen Einleitung und Erläuterungen zur technischen Terminologie gibt es biografische Anmerkungen zu mehr als 30 niederländischen Blasinstrumentenbauern. Es folgen ausführliche Beschreibungen aller aufgeführten Instrumente. Die Darstellung ist insofern einzigartig, als dass sie die historischen und biografischen Erläuterungen um technische Modellzeichnungen aller Instrumente in Originalgröße ergänzt. Instrumentos de un museo.

Gebundene Ausgabe: 172 pages.
Publisher: Edition Bochinsky
Language: Alemán / Inglés

 

 
On lutes, recorders and harpsichords: men and music of the Baroque by Freda Pastor Berkowitz (Author), Malcolm Spooner (Illustrator)

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Hardcover: pages.
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On lutes, recorders and harpsichords: men and music of the Baroque by Freda Pastor Berkowitz (Author), Malcolm Spooner (Illustrator)

Book description

Library Binding: pages.
Publisher: Scribner (January 2000)
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On lutes, recorders and harpsichords: men and music of the Baroque by Freda Pastor Berkowitz (Author), Malcolm Spooner (Illustrator)

Book description

Unknown Binding: 167 pages.
Publisher: Atheneum
Language: English

 

 
Secrets of the Flute: The Physics, Math and Design of the Non-Mechanical Folk Flute by Lew Paxton Price

Book description

Unknown Binding: 63 pages.
Publisher: L.P. Price (1991)
Language: English

 

 
Simple Flutes: How to Play or Make a Flute of Bamboo, Wood, Clay, Metal, Plastic, or Anything Else by Mark Shepard (Author)

Book description

Paperback: 44 pages.
Publisher: Shepard Publications (August 8, 2003)
Language: English

 

 
Tai Hei Shakuhachi (Shakuhachi Sourcebook) by

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The acoustics of the recorder by John Martin

Book description

Paperback: 112 pages.
Publisher: Edition Moeck 4054
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The Amateur Wind Instrument Maker by Trevor Robinson

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Paperback: pages.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
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The Baroque Flute Fingering Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Fingerings for the One-Keyed Flute Including Trills, Flattements, and Battements by Margaret N. Neuhaus (Author), Catherine E. Folkers (Author), Ardal Powell (Author, Editor)

Book description

: 137 pages.
Publisher: Pendragon Pr; 2 Revised edition (May 1, 2002)
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The Bassanos: Venetian Musicians and Instrument Makers in England, 1531-1665 by David Lasocki (Author), Roger Prior (Author)

Book description
In the 1530s, five brothers from the Bassano family, outstanding wind players and instrument makers, emigrated from Venice to England. This is a study of these brothers, their sons and daughter and their grandsons. The first half of the book discusses the everyday affairs of the family - their relationships, religion, property, law suits, finances and standing in society. Two chapters are devoted to Emilia Bassano, whose identification as the "dark lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets is supported by a wealth of evidence. The second half of the book discusses the family's musical activities. At the English court, the Bassanos founded a recorder consort that lasted 90 years; they also played in the flute/cornett and shawn/sackbutt consorts. As instrument makers their fame extended throughout Europe. The book's appendices present information on the Venetian branch of the family and the musical activities of the English branch since 1665.

Hardcover: 288 pages.
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The Early Flute: A Practical Guide (Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music) by Rachel Brown (Author)

Book description
This handbook for flautists addresses all who wish to consider the issues raised when performing music of the past, and experiment with them on old or new instruments. Its aim is to provide an authoritative and practical guide with evidence drawn from a variety of primary sources directly and indirectly associated with the flute. The author provides sound advice on instruments and their care, historical techniques, stylistic issues and historically informed interpretation, with examples drawn from a wide range of case studies, including Bach, Handel, Mozart and Brahms.

: 200 pages.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (April 21, 2003)
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The Flute by Jeremy Montagu

Book description

Paperback: 32 pages.
Publisher: Shire Publications
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The Flute (Yale Musical Instrument Series) by Ardal Powell (Author)

Book description
With these two volumes, the publisher launches its promising "Musical Instrument" series, in which noted scholars/ performers discuss instruments in light of the newest research. Forthcoming titles will cover the piano, the clarinet, the cello, the violin, and the trumpet. Montagu has played timpani and percussion professionally for more than 50 years and oversaw the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments at Oxford, and Powell is a noted solo flautist and president of Folkers & Powell, Makers of Historical Flutes, in Hudson, NY. Each has written an informative and authoritative guide for those with previous background in these instruments and a serious desire to understand their place in history. Taking a chronological approach, the authors trace the instruments from earliest known records and discuss the changes in construction, social context, and repertory, as well as notable performers and makers. Montagu's appendixes include information about playing techniques and the construction of percussion instruments, and Powell's reference section contains extremely valuable coverage of past and current scholarship on flutes. In addition to being well written, the books are sturdy and beautifully illustrated. Highly recommended for academic libraries, public libraries where an interest in music is strong, and upper-level music students generally. Timothy J. McGee, Univ. of Toronto Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

: 360 pages.
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The Flute and Flute-Playing in Acoustical, Technical, and Artistic Aspects by Dayton C. Miller (Author), Theobald Boehm (Author)

Book description
Classic of organology; inventor of modern flute covers history, acoustics, techniques, keying, etc. Includes 50 illustrations.

Paperback: 197 pages.
Publisher: Dover Publications; 2 edition (June 1, 1964)
Language: English

 

 
The Keyed Flute by Johann George Tromlitz (Oxford Early Music Series) by Johann George Tromlitz (Author), Ardal Powell (Editor)

Book description
Ardal Powell, a leading authority on and maker of early flutes, offers here a translation and study of J. G. Tromlitz's tutor for the eight-keyed flute, first published in German in 1800. Powell explores the instrument's history and assesses Tromlitz's importance as a designer. The volume contains information vital to the historically informed performance of classical and Romantic music. `If no other praise were due, the mere fact of his translating these books would have indebted the general, and specifically the English-speaking readers to Ardal Powell...More, and even higher praise is merited by the fact that Mr Powell placed this text in its historical context and perspective...The translation of Tromlitz's text makes fluent and comfortable reading. It does not feel as a translation. No mean feat!...Ardal Powell suceeds eminently in establishing Tromlitz, with Johann Joachim Quantz before and Theobald Boehm after him as the pioneering maker, teacher and theoretician he undoubtedly was. providing the flute world with a book that puts the development of the flute from 1800 to this day in a better and more consequential perspective. Bravo.' FOMRHI

: 288 pages.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; illustrated edition edition (August 29, 1996)
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The Oldest Magic by Lew Paxton Price

Book description

Unknown Binding: 6 pages.
Publisher: L.P. Price (1995)
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The Recorder (Yale Musical Instrument Series) by David Lasocki (Author), Robert Ehrlich (Author), Nicholas Lander (Author), Nikolaj Tarasov (Author)

Book description
A Choice "Best Academic" book in its first edition, The Recorder remains an essential resource for anyone who wants to know about this instrument. This new edition is thoroughly redone, takes account of the publishing activity of the years since its first publication, and still follows the original organization.

: 320 pages.
Publisher: Yale University Press; 1 edition (December 31, 2008)
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The recorder in the seventeenth century by David Lasocki

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The Recorder Magazine. Vol. 14. No. 4. December 1994 by Andrew Mayes (editor)

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Interview to Jonathan Askey

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Publisher: The Recorder Magazine / Peacock Press
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Traverso, Historical Flute Newsletter: The Second Decade, 1999-2008 by Ardal Powell (Author), David Lasocki (Author)

Book description
Traverso, the international newsletter of historical flutes and flute-playing, celebrates its twentieth anniversary by reprinting the entire run of back issues in Volumes 11-20. The volume contains forty articles on the renaissance, baroque, classical, and early romantic flute, its repertoire, and performance practice, by expert authors including Rahel Brown, David Lasocki, Gianni Lazzari, Linda Pereksta, Kim Pineda, Ardal Powell, Stephen Preston, Susan E. Thompson, and Luca Verzulli. Also included are a new bibliography of writings on historical flutes and flute-playing published in 1999-2008, compiled by David Lasocki, and a CD with a searchable PDF of the entire publication including high-resolution color images.

: 200 pages.
Publisher: Pendragon Pr; Pap/Cdr edition (August 15, 2009)
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TRAVERSO, Historical Flute Newsletter: Volumes 1-10, 1989-98 by David Lasocki (Editor), Ardal Powell (Editor) Ardal Powell (Editor) › Visit Amazon's Ardal Powell Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author Are you an author? Learn about Author Central (Editor)

Book description
TRAVERSO is a quarterly newsletter for people interested in the history of the flute and flute-playing. In its first ten years of publication, 1989-98, it published forty articles on the flute in the baroque and classical periods, its repertoire, and performance practice, by expert authors including Janice Dockendorff Boland, Eberhard Dehne-Niemann, Catherine Folkers, Claire Fontijn, Jean-Christophe Frisch, Bruce Haynes, Leta E. Miller, Ardal Powell, Patricia M. Ranum, Jeanne Swack, and Jed Wentz. These articles provide historical information on the instrument and its builders, the music and its composers, and the lives and ideas of flutists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as suggesting how players of today can interpret this material and put it to use. The book also contains a new bibliography of writings on the history of the flute and its music published in all languages during 1989-98, compiled by David Lasocki.

Paperback: 198 pages.
Publisher: Folkers Flute Company, Limited.; 1 edition (February 1998)
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Wind instruments of European Art Music by Horniman Museum (Londres) (Author)

Book description

Unknown Binding: 107 pages.
Publisher: Inner London Education Authority (1974)
Language: English

 

 
Woodwind for schools by Peter Tomlin

Book description
Peter Tomlin gives a remarkably complete introduction to woodwind instrument making using very basic tools. After some introductory material he walks the student through making a Transverse Flute, a Clarinet, an Oboe and a Bassoon. New operations are described as they are needed and there are many clear dimensioned drawings. The text is terse and the reader is expected to think things through, but there are few gaps. An excellent little book (70 pages) and almost completely unknown outside the U.K. Someone should reprint it.

Unknown Binding: 70 pages.
Publisher: Dryad Press (1973)
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Woodwind Instruments and Their History by Anthony Baines

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