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

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

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

Book description
Collecting antique brass musical instruments involves a fascinating and wide range of subjects, including music history, art history, political history, industrial history, and changing aesthetics. Designed for musical instrument collectors and those who regularly encounter antique brass musical instruments made before 1920, this book features more than 100 original line drawings from musical instrument catalogs as well as interesting new information regarding these instruments. Readers with a background or interest in music and musical instruments will find this book a valuable resource for years to come and one that will enhance their knowledge and collection. Antique Brass Wind Instruments also includes a helpful value guide, a glossary of terms, a bibliography of scholarly reference books, and several appendices of particular interest to beginning collectors.

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

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

Book description
Illustrated

Spiral-bound: 60 pages
Publisher: Canadian Scholars Press (September 1, 1988)
Language: English

Hardcover Publisher: Instrumentalist Co (December 1980)

Paperback: 32 pages
Publisher: McGinnis & Marx Music Publishers; 2nd edition (April 1989)
Language: English

Paperback: 84 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press; Reprint edition (February 1998)
Language: English

Book description
Complete instructions on making Renaissance double reeds

Unknown Binding: 42 pages
Publisher: King's Trumpetts and Shalmes (1988)
Language: English

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unknown Binding: 167 pages
Publisher: Atheneum
Language: English

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

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

Unknown Binding Publisher: Schilke Co (1971)
Language: English

Book description
Over the past few decades, the general design of wind instruments have remained virtually unchanged. To the average student, they look the same and they play the same, which prompts many to mistakenly conclude that they are manufactured in the same way. In actuality, the static nature of instrument design belies a dramatic revolution in manufacturing technologies. Faced with sharply rising labor costs, a shortage of skilled laborers, and an increasingly quality-conscious market, wind instrument, interested in meeting these demands have restructured their manufacturing operations over the past decade. Thus, while a player from twenty years ago would be at home with any new horn, an instrument maker from twenty years ago would be confounded new methods of production…

[HTML] (Digital) Publisher: Music Trades Corp.

Book description
This book, with its included audio CD, provides complete how-to information on the making of this loveliest of musical instruments, wind chimes. Included are chimes of metal, bamboo, ceramic and shell, in a variety of forms including tubes, rods, bars, bells and gongs. Familiar wind chime designs as well as exotic and innovative ones appear. All of the essentials for getting good sounds from different sounding forms are here, as well as ideas on suspension, the basics of tuning,and suggestions for materials and resources. The accompanying CD, with dozens of different types of wind chimes represented, allows you to hear and compare the various types, and it s a pleasure to listen to in itself. The chapters include: 1) Introduction. 2) The Example Chime: a detailed description of the construction procedure for a typical and representative (and beautiful-sounding) wind chime. 3) Useful Information: a mini-encyclopedia of practical information on chime design construction. 4) Chime Tunings: how to tune, and a wealth of ideas for tunings. 5) Descriptions: photos and construction information for a diverse array of wind-chimes of all types.

Paperback: 68 pages
Publisher: Experimental Musical Instruments (November 16, 2005)

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