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NUMBER LXI : 2008, Editor: Michael Fleming

Editorial ... 2

Traditional Iberian Harpsichord Making in its European Context :: JOHN KOSTER ... 3

The Tangentenflügel and Other Pianos with Non-Pivoting Hammers :: GIOVANNI PAOLO DI STEFANO ... 79

Karl Engel and the Clavichord :: PAUL SIMMONDS ... 105

The Catalogue of the Boddington-Pyne Collection of Instruments :: ELEANOR SMITH ... 115

Joachim Tielke: Instrument-maker and Merchant of Hamburg. Recent Findings about his Education and Professional Life :: ALEXANDER PILIPCZUK ... 129

"Some Consorts of Instruments are sweeter than others": Further Light on the Harp of William Lawes's Harp Consorts :: JOHN CUNNINGHAM ... 147

Aesthetic Judgements of Luthiers: A Case Study of Mexican Guitar-Makers :: THOMAS KIES ... 177

George Breed and his Electrified Guitar of 1890 :: MATTHEW HILL ... 193

Sellner-type Oboes in Vienna and Mainz in the Second Quarter of the Nineteenth Century :: STEFAAN VERDEGEM ... 205

On the Early History of the Périnet Valve :: EUGENIA MITROULIA, GÉRY DUMOULIN and NILES ELDREDGE ... 217

Cavalry Trumpet and Kettledrum Practice from the Time of the Celts and Romans to the Renaissance :: BRUCE GLEASON ... 231

"Sonderbahres Heerpaucken-Instrument zu Tromben": Research, Reconstruction and the Sound of the One-Stringed Wooden Timpani Described by Daniel Speer (1687/1697) :: THILO HIRSCH and PHILIP TARR ... 257

A New Musical Instrument: Creating Stockhausen's Himmels-Tür :: D.J. BETSHILL ... 275

The Pastoral or New Bagpipe: Piping and the Neo-Baroque :: HUGH CHEAPE ... 285

The Hungarian Duda and Contra-Chanter Bagpipes of the Carpathian Basin :: ARLE LOMMEL ... 305

Notes & Queries
Further Information About Metallic Mutes for French Horns :: CHRISTIAN AHRENS ... 322
Errata, and More on the Violoncello da Spalla of the Italians :: DMITRY BADIAROV ... 324
Two Spinets from the Collection of Viscount Leverhulme :: PETER MOLE ... 325
Phillippe Golledge: Another Oxford Musical Instrument Dealer? :: MICHAEL FLEMING ... 332

Reviews ... 336

Authors' profiles ... 350

Abstracts ... 353

Obituaries
Hélène La Rue 1951-2007 :: BRADLEY STRAUCHEN-SCHERER ... 357
James Rodger Mirrey 1919-2007 :: MALCOLM ROSE ... 359
William Waterhouse 1931-2007 :: JAMES B. KOPP ... 363

Guidance for Authors ... 366

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NUMBER LX : 2007, Editor: Michael Fleming

Editorial ... 2

The Musical Miniatures of the Triumphzug of Maximilian I :: HERBERT MYERS ... 3

Instruments, Strings, Wire and Other Musical Miscellanea in the Account Books of Claver Morris (1659-1727) :: H. DIACK JOHNSTONE ... 29

The Inventory of the Gotha Court Orchestra in 1750 :: CHRISTIAN AHRENS ... 37

The Hitchcock Spinet Makers - a New Analysis :: PETER MOLE ... 45

Girolamo Zenti and Giovanni Battista Boni da Cortona: an unsuspected relationship :: LUCA PURCHIARONI ... 63

Rosamond Harding: Author and Musicologist :: MICHAEL COLE ... 71

The Singular Case of Manuel Nunes and the Invention of the Bouncing Flea :: JOHN KING and JIM TRANQUADA ... 85

The Violoncello, Viola da Spalla and Viola Pomposa in Theory and Practice :: DMITRY BADIAROV ... 121

Evidence about the Lira da Braccio from Two Seventeenth-Century Violin Sources :: REBECCA CYPESS ... 147

The Tonalities of the Isankuni :: LUVUYO DONTSA ... 161

The Influence of the Tsaboúna Bagpipe on the Lira and Violin :: HARIS SARRIS ... 167

The Form, History, and Classification of the Tekerölant (Hungarian Hurdy-Gurdy) :: ARLE LOMMEL and BALÁZS NAGY ... 181

Publications by Members of the Galpin Society ... 190

An Organological Overview of the Recorder 1800-1905 :: DOUGLAS MACMILLAN ... 191

Ferdinando Sebastiani, Gennaro Bosa and the Clarinet in Nineteenth-Century Naples :: INGRID ELIZABETH PEARSON ... 203

An Introduction to the Basque Txalaparta :: HELEN LEAF ... 215

Notes & Queries
Metallic Mutes Used in the Eighteenth Century :: CHRISTIAN AHRENS ... 220
New Information About Orphicas :: BENJAMIN VOGEL ... 223
Mediaeval Woodwind Instruments of Silver :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 224
Crang & Hancock, the Eighteenth-Century London Organ-Builders :: J.D.C. HEMSLEY ... 229
A Previously Unrecorded Crumhorn in Belgium :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE ... 233
The Travels of an Ivory Renaissance Flute :: DAVID FREEMAN ... 233
A Newly-Discovered Harpsichord Inscription :: JOHN KOSTER ... 236

Correspondence
On Roman and Neapolitan Gut Strings :: OLIVIER WEBBER ... 238
On Roman and Neapolitan Gut Strings :: MIMMO PERUFO ... 238
On Roman and Neapolitan Gut Strings :: PATRIZIO BARBIERI ... 242
On Music-Making Angels :: UTA HENNING ... 245

Reviews ... 246

Authors' profiles ... 260

Guidance for Contributors ... 264

Obituaries
His Honour Brian Galpin 1921-2006 :: GRAHAM WELLS ... 266
Dietrich Kessler 1929-2006 :: JOHN MILNES ... 267

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NUMBER LIX : 2006, Editor: Michael Fleming

Editorial ... 2

The Creation of New Instruments :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 3

English Medieval Bone Flutes - a Brief Introduction :: HELEN LEAF ... 13

Proportions of Renaissance Tenor Flutes and the Relationship of Verona Flutes to Foot-Length Standards :: PHILIPPE ALLAIN-DUPRÉ ... 21

Two Early Concertos for Iwan Müller's Thirteen-Keyed Clarinet :: MARTIN HARLOW ... 29

The Brasswind Production of Marthe Besson's London Factory :: ARNOLD MYERS AND NILES ELDREDGE ... 43

The Cornet and Other Brass Instruments in French Patents of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century :: GËRY DUMOULIN ... 77

Henry Courtenay (1820-1881) of Alton: his life, his Cornopean, and further thoughts on the "Clapper Shake Key" :: SABINE K. KLAUS ... 101

The Sistema Brevettato Delle Piane Saxophone :: EMANUELE RAGANATO ... 117

The Early Wire-Strung Guitar :: DARRYL MARTIN ... 123

Marco Palmezzano's Music-Making Angels: Holding the Fiddle in the Renaissance :: KATHERINE POWERS ... 139

Roman and Neapolitan Gut Strings 1550-1950 :: PATRIZIO BARBIERI ... 147

Keeping Time: Early Clocks and Gut Strings :: CAREY FLEINER ... 183

Musical Instruments in a 1592 Inventory of the Marquis Ferdinando d'Alarçon :: ALBERTO MAMMARELLA ... 187

Chinese Instruments in the Galpin Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with a Focus on the Sound-Makers :: MITCHELL CLARK ... 207

Dharma Instruments (Faqi) in Chinese Han Buddhist Rituals :: LI-HUA HO ... 217

Tirer la Chèvre: the Singing Bowls of Gallo-Brittany :: PHONS BAKX ... 229

Notes & Queries
Comments on Allain-Duprë (GSJ 2004) on Early Baroque Flutes :: HERBERT MYERS ... 237
William Lander - Addendum :: SABINE K. KLAUS ... 240
New sources on the invention of the Janissary or Turkish Music stop :: CHRISTIAN AHRENS ... 241

Reviews ... 266

Authors' profiles ... 282

Guidance for Contributors ... 283

Obituaries
Edgar Hunt 1909-2006 :: HÉLÈNE LA RUE ... 288
Sir Nicholas Shackleton 1937-2006 :: ARNOLD MYERS ... 291

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NUMBER LVIII : 2005, Editor: Charles Mould

Editorial ... 2

Before Borjon: The French Court Musette to 1672 :: JAMES B. KOPP ... 3

Tubular Branches, Additaments, Holes and Ventiges :: William Close (1775-1813), Lake District Apothecary and Surgeon; and his invention of Polyphonian trumpets and French horns :: JOHN PEARN AND CHRISTOPHER GARDNER-THORPE ... 38

Tinctoris' Imperfect Dulcina Perfected - the Mary Rose Still Shawm :: CHARLES FOSTER ... 46

On Reaming Flutes :: ROBERT BIGIO AND MICHAEL WRIGHT ... 51

Saxophone Manufacture in Italy; a Short Survey :: EMANUELE RAGANATO ... 58

The Structure and Development of the Gambus (Malay-Lutes) :: LARRY FRANCIS HILARIAN ... 66

A few words about the Madeiran Machete :: JOHN KING ... 83

An 'Old Old Viol' and 'Other Lumber': Musical Remains in Provincial, Non-Noble England c.1580-1660 :: MICHAEL FLEMING ... 89

Augustus Stroh's Phonographic Violin. A Journey: Victorian London, Australia, Transylvania :: ALISON RABINOVICI ... 100

The Svarman.d.al and its `Ancestors': from Organological to Aesthetic Continuity :: JOHN NAPIER ... 124

A Bibliographical Index of Kenyan Musical Instruments :: MALCOLM FLOYD ... 132

Some Keyed Friction Instruments: The Clavicylinder, Melodion and Terpodion :: BIRGIT HEISE ... 160

The Art Case Piano :: MAXIMILIAAN RUTTEN ... 168

The `Apental' Piano :: RICHARD HAIGH ... 173

The Tiorbino: an unrecognised instrument type built by harpsichord makers with possible evidence for a surviving instrument :: GRANT O'BRIEN AND FRANCESCO NOCERINO ... 184

Florentine Claviorgans (1492-1900) :: GIULIANA MONTANARI ... 238

Correspondence

On The Piano Maker Adam Beyer :: MICHAEL COLE ... 260

Reviews ... 265

Addenda

The Pace Family :: LOUISE BACON ... 277

Authors' profiles ... 279

Announcements

Guidelines for Contributors ... 283    

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NUMBER LVII : 2004, Editor: Charles Mould

Editorial ... 2

William Lander (1763-1843), Mere, Wiltshire: a Forgotten Musical Instrument Maker Rediscovered :: SABINE KLAUS ... 3

Orphicas, Genuine, Less Genuine and Fakes :: BENJAMIN VOGEL ... 19

The Musical Enigma of Longman and Broderip's Monochord, c.1790 :: ALEXANDER MACKENZIE OF ORD AND KENNETH MOBBS ... 46

Renaissance and Early Baroque Flutes: An Update on Surviving Instruments, Pitches and Consort Groupings :: PHILIPPE ALLAIN-DUPRÉ ... 53

Woodwind Instruments of Boosey & Company :: KELLY J. WHITE AND ARNOLD MYERS ... 62

Three Early Transposing Two-Manual Harpsichords of the Antwerp School :: JOHN KOSTER ... 81

The Pace Family of Musical Instrument Makers, 1788-1901 :: LOUISE BACON ... 117

The Musette de Poitou in 17th-Century France :: JAMES B. KOPP ... 127

The Importance of Cane Selection in Historical Bassoon Reed-Making :: DAVID RACHOR ... 146

Franz Jakob Spath and the Tangentenflügel, an Eighteenth-Century Tradition :: MICHAEL LATCHAM ... 150

How Old is Music ? :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 171

Stradivari's Viols :: MYRNA HERZOG ... 183

The Evolution of the Baltic Psaltery :: ILYA TEMKIN ... 219

The Piano Maker Adam Beyer, a German by Birth :: EVA BADURA SKODA ... 231

Nineteenth-Century French Amateur Music Societies and changes in Instrument Construction: Their evolution caught between Passivity and Progress :: JEAN-YVES RAULINE ... 236

Instrument-making in Oxford :: MICHAEL FLEMING ... 246

Correspondence
On pitch standards :: JOHN KOSTER ... 252
On the Boehm systéme oboe :: ROBERT HOWE ... 253

Reviews ... 256

Notes and Queries
A Register of Early Reeds: A Bassoon Reed in the Edinburgh University Collection :: DAVID RACHOR ... 273

Authors' profiles ... 274

Announcements
List of Publications (2003-2004) by Members of the Society ... 278
Guidelines for Intending Contributors ... 278

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NUMBER LVI : 2003, Editor: Charles Mould

Editorial ... 3

Obituary
Pauline Holden 1924-2002 :: CHARLES MOULD ... 4

Sir Samuel Hellier's 'Musicall Instruments' :: CATHERINE FREW AND ARNOLD MYERS ... 6

The Boehm Systéme Oboe and its Role in the Development of the Modern Oboe :: ROBERT HOWE ... 27

Experimental and traditional Huqin: the Sanhu and Erxianzi :: COLIN HUEHNS ... 61

Nathaniel Cross, William Borracleffe, and a clutch of Tudor Viols :: BENJAMIN HEBBERT ... 69

The Cello in Britain: A Technical and Social History :: BRENDA NEECE ... 77

Towards an Inventory of Antique Barytons :: Carol A. Gartrell ... 116

A Dendrochronological Survey of Stringed Musical Instruments from Three Collections in Edinburgh, London and Paris :: JOHN TOPHAM ... 132

Mme. F. Besson and the Early History of the Périnet Valve :: NILES ELDREDGE ... 147

A Designer's Guide to Bowed Keyboard Instruments :: BARRY LLOYD 152

Key Notes on Hubert :: KOEN VERMEIJ ... 175

Müller's Gamme De La Clarinette (c.1812) and the Development of The Thirteen-key Clarinet :: ALBERT R. RICE ... 181

David James Who? Some Notes on David James Blaikley :: JACK SMITH ... 217

Reviews ... 

Historical and Practical Considerations for the Tuning of Double Bass Instruments in Fourths :: DAVID CHAPMAN ... 224

Correspondence
On the Benavides inventory :: RUDOLF HOPFNER, BEATRIX DARMSTÄDTER and ALFONS HUBER ... 234
On the Bemavides inventory :: MAGGIE KILBEY ... 236
On the Benavides inventory :: BETH L. GLIXON ... 237
On theBenavides inventory :: ADRIAN BROWN ... 237
On Mozart without the pedal :: RICHARD MAUNDER ... 239
On Mozart without the pedal :: MICHAEL LATCHAM ... 240
On pitch standards :: EPHRAIM SEGERMAN ... 241
On idioglot reed-pipes :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 246
On the tenor violin :: AGNES KORY ... 247
On the cittern :: VINCE CONNAWAY ... 247

Reviews ... 249

Authors' profiles ... 275

Addenda
From Paul Badura Skoda ... 280
From Rainer Weber ... 280

Announcements
List of Publications (2002-2003) by Members of the Society ... 282
Guidelines for Intending Contributors ... 282

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NUMBER LV : 2002, Editor: Charles Mould

Editorial ... 3

"The Harpsichord of Nicholas Lefebvre 1755" The Story of a Forgery without Intent to Defraud :: MARTIN SKOWRONECK ... 4

An Up-date on the Expressive Capabilities of the Full-Specification One-manual Harpsichords made for Longman and Broderip by Thomas Culliford in 1785 :: KENNETH MOBBS and ALEXANDER MACKENZIE OF ORD ... 15

A Newly-Discovered Harpsichord from a Spanish Convent :: RAFAEL MARIJUAN and BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL ... 43

The Vertical Piccolo :: DANIELLE EDEN ... 50

Musical Instruments in an Inventory by Andrea Mantova Benavides, Padova 1696 :: GERHARD STRADNER ... 62

James Watt: Musical Instrument Maker :: MICHAEL WRIGHT ... 104

Kaputuhe: Exploring Word-Based Performance on Marquesan Musical Instruments :: JANE FREEMAN MOULIN ... 130

Was the "Viennese action" originally a Stossmechanik? :: ALFONS HUBER ... 169

Why Didn't Historical Makers Need Drawings? Part II - Modular Dimensions and the Builder's Werkzoll :: STEPHEN BIRKETT and WILLIAM JURGENSON ... 183

Le Messie Stradivarius? :: JON WHITELEY ... 240

A Dendrochronological Survey of Musical Instruments from the Hill Collection at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford :: JOHN C. TOPHAM ... 244

The Gatti-Kraus Piano Action Ascribed to Bartolomeo Cristofori :: STEWART POLLENS ... 269

Further on the Lodewijk Theewes Harpsichord :: MALCOLM ROSE ... 279

Robert Falkener: an Eighteenth-century Harpsichord Builder, Music Publisher and Malfeasant? :: LANCE WHITEHEAD ... 310

Mozart without the Pedal? :: PAUL BADURA-SKODA ... 332

Reviews ... 351

Notes & Queries
Simple reed-pipes from Crete and Turkey :: KARL GILLESSEN ... 379
Instrument-Makers named Hill and Hunt in Pepys's London :: MICHAEL FLEMING ... 382
Two-Chanter Bagpipes Revisited :: JAMES MERRYWEATHER ... 386

Correspondence
On Halluw:: KOEN VERMEIJ ... 391
On Pitch:: HERBERT W. MYERS ... 392
On Pitch:: DENZIL WRAIGHT ... 403
On Pitch:: BRUCE HAYNES ... 405
On Pitch:: DAVID LASOCKI ... 408

Authors' profiles ... 409

Addendum
To the review of KOEN VERMEIJ: The Hubert Clavichord Data Book in GSJ LIV ... 415

Announcements
List of Publications (2001-2002) by Members of the Society ... 415
Guidelines for Intending Contributors ... 415

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NUMBER LIV : 2001, Editor: Charles Mould

Editorial ... 3

Obituaries
E.A. Keane Ridley 1904-2000 :: ELIZABETH WELLS ... 5
T.K. Dibley 1923-2001 :: PAULINE HOLDEN ... 8

Boxwood Tongues and Original Leather Plectra in Eighteenth-century English Harpsichords :: JOHN BARNES ... 10

A Performer's comparative study of Touchweight, Key-dip, Keyboard Design and Repetition in Early Grand Pianos, c. 1770 to 1850 :: KENNETH MOBBS ... 16

The Oldest Harp Maker in the World! :: MOIRA BONNINGTON ... 45

The Early Music Erhu :: COLIN HUEHNS ... 56

Two-Chanter Bagpipes in England :: JAMES W. MERRYWEATHER ... 62

The Gerbier-Windebank Letters: Two Ruckers Harpsichords in England :: PAULA WOODS ... 76

The Use and Limitations of a Three-Point Bore Gauge for Measuring Woodwind Instrument Bores :: RONALD BELL and ADRIAN GREENHAM ... 90

Pitch in Viols and Harpsichords :: NICHOLAS MITCHELL ... 97

A Portuguese Clavichord in Sixteenth-century Japan? :: MINORU TAKAHASHI ... 116

A One-keyed Flute by C.V. Halluw :: SUSAN THOMPSON ... 124

The Origins and Evolution of Diatonic Fretting in Clavichords :: MARIA BOXALL ... 143

A Survey of Pitch Standards before the Nineteenth Century :: EPHRAIM SEGERMAN ... 200

From Measurement to Meaning :: KEVIN DAWE ... 219

Early Double Reeds :: RAINER WEBER ... 233

Geometrical Methods in Stringed Keyboard Instrument Design :: STEPHEN BIRKETT and WILLIAM JURGENS ... 242

A Catalogue of Surviving Instruments by, or ascribed to, Barak Norman :: BENJAMIN HEBBERT ... 285

Investigating Green Marquetry on Bowed-String Instruments :: ANNETTE OTTERSTEDT ... 330

Wooden Timpani :: BIRGIT HEISE ... 339

A Taxonomy of Renaissance Keyboard Compass :: DAVID KINSELA ... 352

Reviews ... 397

Correspondence
On Praetorius's Pitch Standard :: HERBERT W. MYERS ... 420
On Praetorius's Pitch Standard :: JOHN KOSTER ... 424

Authors' profiles ... 425

Addenda
To the article "Two Elizabethan Virginals?" GSJ LIII, pp. 156-167. The `Mar' virginal: further information based on new X-ray pictures :: DARRYL MARTIN ... 432
To the article "Jurors of the Guild of Musical Instrument Makers of Paris" GSJ LI, pp. 110-113 :: JOHN HUNT ... 436
To the article "Some Points arising from a Survey of Wills and Inventories" GSL LIII, Notes and Queries, pp. 301-311 :: MICHAEL FLEMING ... 436

Announcements
List of Publications (1999-2000) by Members of the Society ... 437
Guidelines for Intending Contributors ... 437

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NUMBER LIII : 2000, Editor: Charles Mould

Editorial ... 3

Obituaries
Philip Bate 1909-1999 :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 6
Donald Boalch 1914-1999 :: CHARLES MOULD ... 9

The "Fydill in Fist": Bowed String Instruments from the Mary Rose :: MARY ANNE ALBURGER ... 12

The 1782 Taskin Harpsichord, Colares, Portugal :: BERNARD BRAUCHLI ... 25

"Of the Differences between Trumpeters and City Tower Musicians" - The Relationship of Stadtpfeifer and Kammeradschaft Trumpeters :: TIMOTHY A. COLLINS ... 51

A Contrabassophone by Alfred Morton :: TOM DIBLEY ... 60

A Reconstruction of Talbot's Hautboy Reed :: BRUCE HAYNES ... 78

A Further Updated Review of the Dulcians (Bajón and Bajoncillo and their Music in Spain :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL ... 87

A Netherlandish Harpsichord of 1658 Re-examined :: JOHN KOSTER ... 117

The Endingidi (Tube Fiddle) of Uganda: Its Adaptation and Significance among the Baganda :: JAMES MAKUBUYA ... 140

Two Elizabethan Virginals? :: DARRYL MARTIN ... 156

Towards establishing the original state of the three-manual harpsichord by Stefano Bolcioni, Florence, 1627, in the Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments, Edinburgh :: GRANT O'BRIEN ... 168

The Flutes of Quantz: Their Construction and Performing Practice :: MARY OLESKIEWICZ ... 201
Audio Examples for Mary Oleskiewicz, The Flutes of Quantz: Their Construction and Performing Practice

The Influence of the Bandora on the Origin of the Baroque Baryton :: TERENCE M. PAMPLIN ... 221

Sonido Rajado Part 2 :: JOSÉ PÉREZ DE ARCE ... 233

An Unsigned South-German Harpsichord in the Historisches Museum Basel :: SABINE KLAUS and MALCOLM ROSE ... 254

The six early clavichords of Arnold Dolmetsch: their construction and inspiration :: JENNY NEX and LANCE WHITEHEAD ... 274

Notes & Queries
Some Points Arising from a Survey of Wills and Inventories :: MICHAEL FLEMING ... 301

On the Use of Stretched Scales :: KLAUS GILLESSEN ... 312

Further remarks on the Galpin Organ :: PAULINE HOLDEN ... 316

Evidence for Italian Mother-and-Child Virginals: An Important Document Signed by Onofrio Guarracino :: FRANCESCO NOCERINO ... 317

An Improvement of the Capabilities of Brasswinds :: PHILIP J. OSTENDORF ... 322

Reviews ... 329

Correspondence
When is a violino not a viola da braccio? :: HERBERT MYERS ... 335
On Praetorius's Pitch Standard :: EPHRAIM SEGERMAN ... 339
An Objection to the Scarlatti Chronology of Van der Meer :: CARL SLOANE, and a reply by Dr van der Meer ... 344
A Short History of the Cittern :: PETER FORRESTER ... 347

Authors' profiles ... 350

Announcements
List of Publications (1999-2000) by Members of the Society ... 358
Errata ... 358
Guidelines for Intending Contributors ... 359

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NUMBER LII : 1999, Editor: Charles Mould

Editorial ... 2

Photographs of Past Members :: KENNETH MOBBS ... 4

Obituaries
John Barnes 1928-1998 :: CHARLES MOULD ... 5
Margaret Anne Oliphant Macaulay 1924-1998 :: CHRISTOPHER FIELD ... 8
Anthony Cuthbert Baines 1912-1997 - A Biographical Memoir :: JOAN RIMMER ... 11

Viennese Stringed-Instrument Makers, 1700-1800 :: RICHARD MAUNDER ... 27

Keyboard and Drum Iconography: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Fans and Brocades :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL ... 52

A Short History of the Cittern :: EPHRAIM SEGERMAN ... 77

The use of simple geometry and the local unit of measurement in the design of Italian stringed keyboard instruments: an aid to attribution and to organological analysis :: GRANT O'BRIEN ... 108

The Double Flageolet - made in England :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE ... 172

César Janssen and the transmission of Müller's 13-keyed clarinet in France :: NICHOLAS SHACKLETON and ALBERT RICE ... 183

A Six-Finger Hole Saxophone: The Saxie :: DAVID RYCROFT ... 195

Moulding Castings in Musical Instruments: the Approach to the Problem, the Scientific Investigatons and the Methodology used at the Collection of Musical Instruments of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan :: ANDREA GATTI ... 202

What Old Fiddles Can Teach Us ... :: ANNETTE OTTERSTEDT ... 219

A Checklist of Woodwind Instruments Marked !! :: MAGGIE LYNDON-JONES ... 243

G.B. Orazi's Enharmonic Flute and its Music (1797-1815) :: PATRIZIO BARBIERI ... 281

Choir-Band Instrumentation: Two County Surveys :: STEPHEN J. WESTON ... 305

Notes & Queries
The `H. Ruckers' Double Virginal in Milan. Two Important New Discoveries :: AUGUSTO BONZA and GRANT O'BRIEN ... 314

Reviews ... 324

Readers' Comments
The Making of Gut Strings in 18th-Century Paris :: STEPHEN BONTA ... 376
On Playing the Baroque Treble Recorder in G Today :: DALE HIGBEE ... 387

Correspondence
On Talbot's `Usual' Bass Violin :: EPHRAIM SEGERMAN ... 389
The Tunings and Sizes of the Viole da Braccio :: EPHRAIM SEGERMAN ... 391

Announcements
List of Publications (1998-1999) by Members of the Society ... 394

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NUMBER LI : 1998, Editor: Charles Mould

Editorial ... 2

Obituaries
Dr David Kenneth Rycroft 1924-1997 :: PAULINE HOLDEN ... 4
Ruth Dyson 1917-1997 :: VIRGINIA PLEASANTS ... 5
Hugh Gough 1916-1997 :: JOHN KOSTER and JOHN BARNES... 7
Carl Frédéric Dolmetsch 1911-1997. :: EDGAR HUNT ... 11
David Henry Kenneth Wainwright 1929-1998 :: PAULINE HOLDEN ... 16

Sonido Rajado: the Sacred Sound of Chilean Pifilca Flutes :: JOSÉ PÉREZ de ARCE ... 17

Analysis of the Sound of the Chilean Pifilca Flutes :: H.A.K. WRIGHT and D.M. CAMPBELL ... 51

The Capture of the Chekker :: DAVID KINSELA ... 64

Innovation and the Development of the Modern Six-string Guitar :: DARRYL MARTIN ... 86

Jurors of the Guild of Musical Instrument Makers of Paris :: JOHN HUNT ... 110

Mozart and the Pianos of Johann Andreas Stein :: MICHAEL LATCHAM ... 114

Historic Keyboard Instruments of the Academic Orchestra in Lund :: BENJAMIN VOGEL ... 154

Viennese Wind-instrument Makers, 1700-1800 :: RICHARD MAUNDER ... 170

Notes & Queries
The Galpin Organ :: PAULINE HOLDEN ... 192
The Cornophone as Wagner Tuba :: JOHN WEBB ... 193
The Eliphone - a `Retreating Reed' :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 196

Reviews ... 198

Readers' Comments
Zacconi's Viola da Braccio Tunings :: HERBERT MYERS ...244
Praetorius's Pitch Standard :: HERBERT MYERS ... 247
Baroque G recorders? :: THOMAS SHERWOOD ... 267
Talbot's `Usual' Bass Violin :: JOHN CATCH ... 269
The Bassanos and the Silkworm Moth :: DAVID LASOCKI ...272

Announcements ... 273

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NUMBER L : MARCH 1997, Editor: David Rycroft

Editorial ... 2

The Royal Nobat Ensemble of Indragiri in Riau, Sumatra in Colonial and Post-Colonial Times :: MARGARET KARTOMI ... 3

Was the Tabor Pipe Always as we Know it? :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 16

Reflections on a Reconstruction of the 14th-Century Göttingen Recorder :: HANS REINERS ... 31

The English March and Early Drum Notation :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 43

Praetorius's Cammerthon Pitch Standard :: EPHRAIM SEGERMAN ... 81

Harp Function in Irish Eulogy and Complaint - Some Late Examples :: JOAN RIMMER ... 109

A Copy of the Downhill Harp :: ROBERT EVANS ... 119

Edward John Payne, Victorian Gambist :: JOHN CATCH ... 127

The Keyboard String Instruments at the Disposal of Domenico Scarlatti :: J.H. VAN DER MEER ... 136

The Pedal Clavichord and Pedal Harpsichord :: KARRIN E. FORD ... 161

Tafelklaviere in the Germanisches National Museum - Some Preliminary Observations :: MICHAEL COLE ... 180

Changes in English Grand Piano Actions between 1787 & 1792 :: BJARNE DAHL & JOHN BARNES ... 208

Richard Wagner's Twelve Organ Pipes :: CHRISTIAN AHRENS ... 212

Notes & Queries
More about two Piano Makers: Adam Beyer and John Pohlman :: MICHAEL COLE ... 218
On Richard Potter's Directions for his Flutes :: FRIEDRICH VON HUENE ... 220
A Trio of Basset Horns by Theodor Lotz :: ERIC HOEPRICH ... 228
Smith, London :: JONATHAN HARRIS ... 237

Reviews ... 241

Correspondence

Communications Relating to the GSJ 's 50th Anniversary

Announcements

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NUMBER XLIX : MARCH 1996, Editor: David Rycroft

Editorial ... 2

Plucked lutes in West Africa: an Historical Overview :: ERIC CHARRY ... 3

Koto Manufacture: the Instrument, Construction Process and Aesthetic Considerations :: HENRY M. JOHNSON ... 38

A Quartet of String Instruments by William Baker of Oxford (c.1645 - 1685) :: PETER TREVELYAN ... 65

Shudi's Harpsichords for Frederick the Great :: DAVID WAINWRIGHT and KENNETH MOBBS ... 77

An Extraordinary Hass Harpsichord in Gothenburg :: LANCE WHITEHEAD ... 95

* Mozart's `Good Wood-Biter': Georg Wenzel Ritter (1748-1808) :: HAROLD E. GRISWOLD ... 103

The Physics of a New Clarinet Design :: ARTHUR H. BENADE and DOUGLAS H. KEEFE ... 113

The Cimbasso and Related Instruments in 19th-century Italy :: RENATO MEUCCI - translated by WILLIAM WATERHOUSE ... 143

* Cornett Acoustics: Some Experimental Studies :: MURRAY CAMPBELL ... 180

Notes & Queries
More on the 40-degree lyre :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 197
The 16th-Century Spanish Inventories :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL ... 198
Viol-bodied Fiddles :: EPHRAIM SEGERMAN ... 204
* Mahillon's Wagner Tubas :: JOHN WEBB ... 207

* Paper presented at the Symposium on Musical Instrument History, Edinburgh, 10-13 June 1994.

Reviews ... 207

Correspondence
The Tenor Violin :: MARK SMITH ... 272
The Sizes of English Viols :: EPHRAIM SEGERMAN ... 273
Ring Keys on a French Bassoon :: KLAUS GILLESEN; DAVID RYCROFT ... 274
Australian Instrumentalists :: JOHN WEBB ... 280
`Baffle' :: KENNETH MOBBS ... 280

Announcements ... 281

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NUMBER XLVIII : MARCH 1995, Editor: David Rycroft

Editorial ... 2

* Some Recent Archaeo-organological Finds in Germany :: DIETRICH HAKELBERG ... 3

Choral and Instrumental Pitch in Church Music, 1570-1620 :: NICHOLAS MITCHELL ... 13

The Sizes of English Viols and Talbot's Measurements :: EPHRAIM SEGERMAN ... 33

* The Identification of the Talbot Manuscript Harpsichord :: DARRYL MARTIN ... 46

The Clavichord: a Comprehensive Bibliography :: FRANCIS KNIGHTS ... 52

Another Early Iberian Grand Piano :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL and DAVID LAW ... 68

Adam Beyer, Pianoforte Maker :: MICHAEL COLE ... 94

The Making of a Venetian Swell, 1993 :: DAVID LAW ... 120

The Balalaika - a Reappraisal :: MARTIN KISZKO ... 130

* Musical Instruments in the Instrumentälischer Bettlermantl - a 17th-Century Musical Compendium :: J. PATRICIA CAMPBELL ... 156

Serial Numbers and Hallmarks on Flutes from the Workshop of Monzani & Hill :: AMY KREITZER ... 168

Notes & Queries
The Name `Tenor Violin' :: EPHRAIM SEGERMAN ... 181
* The Tuohitorvi: Cornett Survival or Re-creation? :: RAYMOND PARKS ... 188
* How to Measure a Horn :: ARNOLD MYERS and RAYMOND PARKS ... 193
Bach and Recorders in G :: MICHAEL MARISSEN ... 199
New Evidence on the Echo Flute :: GEORGE H. GOEBEL ... 205

* Paper presented at the Symposium on Musical Instrument History, Edinburgh, 10-13 June 1994.

Reviews ... 208

Correspondence
A Sixteenth-century Polish Folk Fiddle from Plock :: PAUL MADGWICK ... 262
The `Machine Stop' on Culliford's One-manual Harpsichord :: KENNETH MOBBS and ALEXANDER MACKENZIE OF ORD ... 262
Tisseran Harpsichord :: Jeremy Montagu ... 263
Bach and recorders in G :: TUSHAAR POWER ... 265
Rock Gongs :: DAVID RYCROFT; ANTHONY BAINES ... 269
Two Harpsichords by Giovanni Celestini :: DENZIL WRAIGHT ... 270

Announcements ... 271

More Guide-lines for GSJ Contributors ... 272

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NUMBER XLVII : MARCH 1994, Editor: David Rycroft

The Double-Manual Harpsichord by Francis Coston, London, c.1725 :: GRANT O'BRIEN ... 2

The `Machine Stop' and its Potential on Full-Specification One-Manual Harpsichords made by Thomas Culliford in 1785 :: KENNETH MOBBS and ALEXANDER MACKENZIE OF ORD ... 33

The Hora (Conch Trumpet) of Japan :: HAJIME FUKUI ... 47

Woodwinds: The Evolutionary Path since 1700 :: ARTHUR H. BENADE ... 63

A Sixteenth-century Polish Folk Fiddle from Plock :: EWA DAHLIG ... 111

A Wider Role for the Tenor Violin? :: AGNES KORY ... 123

Notes & Queries
What is a Lithophone - and What is a Rock Gong? :: CATHERINE FAGG ... 154
On the Pitch Dispositions of Bach's Fiauti d'Echo and other Treble Recorders :: TUSHAAR POWER ... 155
High F Sharp and the Treble Recorder :: EDGAR HUNT ... 161
Medieval Paper Organ Pipes :: GEOFFREY BRIDGES ... 163

Reviews ... 166

Correspondence
High F Sharp and the Treble Recorder :: EDGAR HUNT ... 220
An Inventory of Ancient Pipes :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 221
`Flatt Trumpet Mark 2' :: DAVID RYCROFT ... 222

Announcements ... 223

Edinburgh Symposium 10-13 June 1994 ... 224

Postscript for Contributors to GSJ ... 227

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NUMBER XLVI : MARCH 1993, Editor: David Rycroft

Editorial ... 2

The Dardanos Fragments and the 40-degree Angular Lyre :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 3

Ritual and the use of Musical Instruments during the Apogee of San Pedro (de Atacama) Culture (A.D.300-900) :: MANUEL FERNANDEZ ... 26

The Nolkin: a Chilean Sucked Trumpet :: JENS SCHNEIDER ... 69

A Historical Account of the Chinese Two-Stringed Fiddle Erhu: JONATHAN STOCK

The Bassanos' Maker's Mark Revisited :: DAVID LASOCKI ... 114

Two Harpsichords by Giovanni Celestini :: DENZIL WRAIGHT ... 120

The Piano as a Symbol of Burgher Culture in Nineteenth-century Warsaw :: BENJAMIN VOGEL ... 137

Notes & Queries
The Restoration of Beethoven's 1817 Broadwood Grand Piano :: DAVID WINSTON ... 147
Square Piano by Adam Beyer? :: LAURENCE LIBIN ... 152
Square Piano by Beyer ? - Further Comments and a Query :: KENNETH MOBBS ... 153
The Flat Trumpet in Perspective :: JOHN WEBB ... 154
Klosé's Clarinet Tutor: the First English Translation :: TOM DIBLEY ... 160
A Case of Flutes by Mr Bressan :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE ... 162

Reviews ... 164

Correspondence
Luis Milan and Temperament :: MARK LINDLEY ... 218
Bach's Fiauti d'Echo :: JEREMY MONTAGU; DAVID LASOCKI ... 218

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NUMBER XLV : MARCH 1992, Editor: David Rycroft

Obituary: Christopher Monk 1921-1991 :: PAULINE HOLDEN ... 2

Organ-building in Assisi in the Early Sixteenth Century :: GALLIANO CILIBERTI ... 3

An Upright Pianoforte by Domenico del Mela :: STEWART POLLENS ... 22

Christian Baumann's Square Pianos and Mozart :: BERNARD BRAUCHLI ... 29

Soundboards Old and New :: MICHAEL LATCHAM ... 50

Paisible's Echo Flute, Bononcini's Flauti Eco, and Bach's Fiauti d'Echo :: DAVID LASOCKI ... 59

William Bull, John Stevenson and the Harris Family :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 67

Secular Civilian Amateur Wind Bands in Southern England in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries :: MICHAEL J. LOMAS ... 78

A Tutor for the Post Trumpet :: DAVID RYCROFT ... 99

Notes & Queries
Medieval Portatives :: GEOFFREY BRIDGES ... 107
The 1571 Fontana Harpsichord in Budapest :: DENZIL WRAIGHT ... 109
The Levashers and the Le Vachers :: DAVID LASOCKI ... 111
Some More on Stanesby Junior :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 115
The Wheatstones :: DAVID RYCROFT ... 123
The Onnoven :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL ... 131
Workshop Marks on Flutes by Thomas Prowse, Hanway Street :: JOLYON FEARNLEY ... 137
Never Travel without your Post Horn! :: RAYMOND PARKS ... 138

Reviews ... 140

Correspondence
The Ethics of Restoration :: RICHARD MAUNDER ... 194
The English Concertina :: S.L. DICKINSON; STEPHEN CHAMBERS ... 200
Giovanni Ferrini :: PATRIZIO BARBIERI ... 201

Announcements ... 203

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NUMBER XLIV : MARCH 1991, Editor: David Rycroft

`You will raise a little your 4th fret': an Equivocal Instruction by Luis Milan? :: ANTONIO CORONA-ALCALDE ... 2

The Tieffenbruckers and the Business of Lute-making in Sixteenth-century Venice :: GIULIO M. ONGARO ... 46

An Italian Harpsichord of 1571: Clues to its Construction :: ESZTER FONTANA ... 55

Some Observations on the Clavichord in France :: FRANCIS KNIGHTS ... 71

Three Keyboard Instruments Signed by Cristofori's Assistant, Giovanni Ferrini :: STEWART POLLENS ... 77

Two Features of Early Spanish Keyboard Instruments :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL ... 94

Medieval Portatives: Some Technical Comments :: GEOFFREY BRIDGES ... 103

The Wheatstone English Concertina :: NEIL WAYNE ... 117

Medieval Trumpet from the City of London, II :: GRAEME LAWSON ... 150

Notes & Queries
Ophicleide Crooks :: JOHN WEBB ... 157
Post Horns with Finger-holes :: JOHN WEBB ... 157
Two Players on the Bell Harp :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 159
Wind Bands of Henry VII and VIII :: DAVID RYCROFT ... 159

Reviews ... 160

Correspondence
The Till family Rock Band :: A.M. TILL ... 206
The Ethics of Restoration :: JOHN BARNES ... 207

Announcements ... 209

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NUMBER XLIII : MARCH 1990, Editor: David Rycroft

Towards a Method of Testing Harpsichord Soundboards :: JOHN RAWSON ... 2

Harp Strings of the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries: an Acoustical Comparison :: IAN M. FIRTH and CLAIRE SYKES ... 46

A Five-piece Wind Band in 1518 :: DAVID J. SHAW ... 60

Early Bassoon Fingering Charts :: PAUL J. WHITE ... 68

Bressan, Talbot and the `Galpin' Oboe :: BRUCE HAYNES ... 112

An Oboe by Hendrick Richters :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 124

The Saxtuba and Organological Vituperation :: CLIFFORD BEVAN ... 135

Notes & Queries
Two Unusual Clavichords :: ODD AANSTAD ... 147
A Late Sixteenth-Century Portrayal of the Jointed Dulcian :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL ... 150
Callcott's Radius French horn: Some Further Observations :: PETER BARTON ... 153
Post Horns with Finger-holes: Some Queries :: DAVID RYCROFT ... 159
Finger-holes in Post Horns: an Explanation :: ALBERT HILLER ... 161
Flat Trumpet Experiments :: FRANK TOMES ... 164

Reviews ... 166

Correspondence
The Ethics of Restoration :: JOHN BARNES; RICHARD MAUNDER ... 199
The Earliest English Square Piano? :: ALBERT R. RICE ... 201

Announcements ... 203

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NUMBER XLII : AUGUST 1989, Editor: David Rycroft

The Curt Sachs Award ... 2

Prince Albert's Early Music :: JOHN R. CATCH ... 3

Bagpipes in English Works of Art :: R.D. CANNON ... 10

The Oldest English Oboe Reeds ? An Examination of Nineteen Surviving Examples :: GEOFFREY BURGESS and PETER HEDRICK ... 32

A Unique Experimental Clarinet by Adolphe Sax :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL ... 70

The Earliest English Square Piano? :: RICHARD MAUNDER ... 77

Roman Military Instruments and the Lituus :: RENATO MEUCCI ... 85

Reconstruction of a Natural Trumpet by Sterner of Nürnberg :: ROBERT L. BARCLAY ... 98

A Wider Role for the Flat Trumpet :: ANDREW PINNOCK ... 105

The Woodham-Rodenbostel Slide Trumpet and Others Employing the Clock-Spring Mechanism :: PETER BARTON ... 112

Notes & Queries
The Till Family Rock Band :: A.M. TILL ... 121
Practical Observations on Natural, Slide and Flat Trumpets :: CRISPIAN STEELE-PERKINS ... 122
A Slide Tuba ? :: ARNOLD MYERS ... 127
A Nineteenth-century Harmon Mute :: CLIFFORD BEVAN ... 129
Ophicleide Crooks :: STEPHEN WESTON ... 130
Flat Trumpet Facts and Figures :: DAVID RYCROFT ... 134

Reviews ... 143

Correspondence
The Billingsgate Trumpet :: RINALDO PELLIZZARI; DAVID RYCROFT ... 179
A Survey of Renaissance Flutes :: TREVOR ROBINSON; FILADELFIO PUGLISI ... 180
Instrumental and Vocal Tutors and Treatises Entered at Stationers' Hall from 1789 to 1818 :: ALBERT R. RICE ... 181

Announcements ... 181

Guidelines tor Contributors ... 182

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NUMBER XLI : OCTOBER 1988, Editor: Maurice Byrne

Instruments of the Cyfarthfa Band :: TREVOR HERBERT and ARNOLD MYERS ... 2

Berr's Clarinet Tutors and the `Boehm' Clarinet :: ALBERT R. RICE ... 11

A Selection of Instrumental and Vocal Tutors and Treatises Entered at Stationers' Hall from 1789 to 1818 :: ALBERT R. RICE ... 16

The Cahusacs and Hallet :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 24

Catalogue Descriptions of Instrument Keywork :: JOHN B. DICK ... 32

Folk Musical Instruments in Calabria :: ANTONELLO RICCI and ROBERTA TUCCI ... 36

The Billingsgate Trumpet :: JOHN WEBB ... 59

Medieval Trumpet from the City of London :: GRAEME LAWSON and GEOFF EGAN ... 63

A Survey of Renaissance Flutes :: FILADELFIO PUGLISI ... 67

Dutch Wind-Instrument Makers from 1670 to 1820 :: ROB VAN ACHT ... 83

Notes & Queries
Notes on an Open C# Flute Down to Bb :: EDGAR HUNT ... 102
The Instruments which Played the Basset or Horn Part :: JOHN B. DICK ... 103
An Autograph of G.B. Boni da Cortona :: FREDERICK HAMMOND ... 107
The Five String Fretted Double-bass :: FRANCIS BAINES ... 107
String-making in 17th-century Padua: an English Traveller's Description :: IAN WOODFIELD ... 109
The Resonaphone :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 112
The (P)Russian Trumpet :: CLIFFORD BEVAN ... 112
Le Breton and the Counter Tenor Bassoon :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 115
The New Langwill Index of Historical Wind-instrument Makers :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE ... 115

Report on Galpin Society visit to Lisbon :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE ... 116

Reviews ... 118

Indices ... 163

Notes for Contributors ... 164

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NUMBER XL : DECEMBER 1987, Editor: Maurice Byrne

The Earliest Basset Horns :: NICHOLAS SHACKLETON ... 2

Contrabassoons in the 17th and early 18th century :: HERBERT HEYDE ... 24

Some Notes on Giovanni Battista Boni da Cortona, Girolamo Zenti, and others :: FREDERICK HAMMOND ... 37

The Berr Clarinet Tutors :: DAVID CHARLTON ... 48

`An English Writer on Music': James Talbot 1664-1708 :: ROBERT UNWIN ... 53

Obituary: Arthur Henry Benade :: PHILIP BATE ... 73

Notes & Queries
Bassano Instruments in Spain ? :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL ... 74
Queen Maria Barbara's Harpsichords - Addendum :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL ... 75

Reviews ... 77

Notes for Contributors ... 86

Indices ... 86

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NUMBER XXXIX : SEPTEMBER 1986, Editor: Maurice Byrne

The Psalterer :: SUSI JEANS ... 2

The Wind-Instrument Maker, Bartolomé de Selma (d. 1616), his Family and Workshop :: B. KENYON DE PASCUAL ... 21

The Harpers and the Trumpet :: SCOTT SORENSON and JOHN WEBB ... 35

Langwill and his Index :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE ... 58

Birth of the `Boehm' Clarinet :: E.A.K. RIDLEY ... 68

Edward Jones's Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards 1784: a re-assessment :: JOAN RIMMER ... 77

The Clarinette d'Amour and Basset Horn :: ALBERT R. RICE ... 97

The Scherers of Butzbach :: PHILLIP T. YOUNG ... 112

Notes & Queries
Queen Maria Barbara's Harpsichords :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL ... 125
Two notes on the Bell Harp :: JOHN GOODACRE; MAURICE BYRNE ... 128
Louis David's Helix-piston :: JOHN WEBB ... 130
The Proportions of Bass Viols :: MICHAEL HEALE ... 131
Bach's `Fiauti d'Echo' :: DALE HIGBEE ... 133
Fingering Charts for the Cimbasso and other Instruments :: ARNOLD MYERS 134

Reviews ... 137

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NUMBER XXXVIII : APRIL 1985, Editor: Maurice Byrne

Obituary: L.G.L., 1897-1983 [obituary of Lyndesay Langwill] :: PHILIP BATE ... 2

The Glen and Ross Collections of Musical Instruments :: ARNOLD MYERS ... 4

The Bodhrán: The Black Sheep in the Family of Traditional Irish Musical Instruments :: DAVID G. SUCH ... 9

Giordano Riccati on the Diameters of Strings and Pipes PATRIZIO BARBIERI ... 20

Diego Fernández - Harpsichord-maker to the Spanish royal family from 1722 to 1775 - and his nephew Julián Fernandez :: B. KENYON DE PASCUAL ... 35

Designs for Brass in the Public Record Office :: JOHN WEBB ... 48

The Acoustics of the Harpsichord :: Response Curves and Modes of Vibration :: EDWARD L. KOTTICK ... 55

The Chitarra Battente in Calabria :: ROBERTA TUCCI and ANTONELLO RICCI ... 78

The Colour of Ruckers Lid Papers :: PETER and ANN MACTAGGART ... 106

The Anglo-Venetian Bassano Family as Instrument Makers and Repairers :: DAVID LASOCKI ... 112

Notes & Queries
The Truchado Geigenwerk: Sitting or Standing? :: B. KENYON DE PASCUAL ... 133
A Primitive Bagpipe from Molise, Italy :: ROBERTA TUCCI and LUCIANO MESSORI ... 134
The `Well Known Clarinet by Lindner' :: NICHOLAS SHACKLETON ... 137
The Basset Horn of J.G. Eisenmenger :: NICHOLAS SHACKLETON and KEITH PUDDY ... 139
A Horn by York :: JOHN WEBB ... 142
A Left-handed `Voice Flute' by Bressan :: DALE HIGBEE ... 143
More Reed Makers :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE ... 144
Clarinet Fingering Charts :: ALBERT R. RICE; T.E. HOEPRICH ... 145
Muraeus :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 146
The Shaw Trumpets at Warwick Castle :: PETER BARTON ... 147

Reviews ... 148

Letter to the Editor ... 163

Notes for Contributors ... 164

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NUMBER XXXVII : MARCH 1984, Editor: Maurice Byrne

The Berkswell Cello :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 2

A Three-Piece Flute in Assisi :: FILADELFIO PUGLISI ... 6

Bent Plates in Violin Construction :: ATHANAS LOLOV ... 10

Clarinet Fingering Charts, 1732-1816 :: ALBERT R. RICE ... 16

J.C. Bach and the Basset-horn :: RICHARD MAUNDER ... 42

C.C. Hornung and the Single-cast Iron Frame :: DORTHE FALCON MØLLER ... 48

Notes on the Ballad Horn :: JOHN WEBB ... 57

Flemish Transposing Harpsichords - An Explanation :: R.T. SHANN ... 62

A Brief Survey of the Late Spanish Bajón :: B. KENYON DE PASCUAL ... 72

The Earlier History of the Shawm in India :: ALASTAIR DICK ... 80

Reed Makers :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 99

More on Bressan :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 102

Notes & Queries
The Cornutum :: JOHN WEBB ... 112
The L.C. Denner Clarinet at Berkeley :: T.E. HOEPRICH ... 114
An Unusual Harpsichord :: CARL G. ANTHON ... 115
Turton's Ophicleide :: STEPHEN WESTON ... 116
The Flentrop Organcase :: JOHN GOTJEN ... 117
The Flutahachi :: PAUL LEWIS ... 118
Archives in the Bate Collection :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 119
Woodwind Instruments from Kilravock Castle :: MAURICE CHECKER and ARNOLD MYERS ... 119
Left-handed Recorders by Bressan :: EDGAR HUNT ... 121
On Crumhorn Bores :: TURE BERGSTRØM ... 122
Instrumentalists and The London Stage :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 122

Reviews ... 125

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NUMBER XXXVI : MARCH 1983, Editor: Anthony Baines

Pierre Jaillard, Peter Bressan :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 2

The Manufacture of Ivory Cornetti :: ESZTER FONTANA ... 29

A Cache of 18th-century Strings :: ALBERT COHEN ... 37

The Brussels Crumhorns: Hypotheses on their Historical Construction :: TOON MOONEN ... 49

The Medieval Organistrum and Symphonia. 2: Terminology :: CHRISTOPHER PAGE ... 71

Baroque Flutes and Modern :: Sound Spectra and Performance Results :: ANNE CHATONEY SHREFFLER ... 88

Franz Anton Pfeiffer and the Bassoon :: DAVID J. RHODES ... 97

A Brudevaelte Lur Re-examined: The Evidence for Ritual Music in the Scandinavian Late Bronze Age :: DONAL O'CALLAGHAN ... 104

Improvements to the Nine-keyed Ophicleide :: STEPHEN WESTON ... 109

The Collection of Historical Musical Instruments of the University of Erlangen: A Checklist :: THOMAS J. ESCHLER ... 115

Notes & Queries
A Swedish Bone Clarinet :: ERNST EMSHEIMER and CAJSA LUND ... 125
More about Denner :: JOHN HENRY van der MEER ... 127
Wide Sockets on 18th-century Horns :: JOHN HENRY van der MEER ... 128
Early Valve Horns :: PAUL LEWIS ... 128
Origin of the Hurdy-Gurdy: a few comments :: SUSANN PALMER ... 129
A Collection in Graslitz :: JOHN WEBB ... 131
The Size of the Cello :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 132

Reviews

Editorial Announcement

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NUMBER XXXV : MARCH 1982, Editor: Anthony Baines

A Catalogue of Musical Instruments offered for sale in 1839 by D'Almaine & Co., 20 Soho Square :: H. EDMUND POOLE ... 2

The Medieval Organistrum and Symphonia I: A Legacy from the East? :: CHRISTOPHER PAGE ... 37

A Remarkable Early Flemish Transposing Harpsichord :: JOHN KOSTER ... 45

The 17th-Century Oboe Reed :: NORA POST ... 54

The Paris Vihuela Reconstructed :: MAISH WEISMAN ... 68

Some Further Instruments by the Denners :: PHILLIP T. YOUNG ... 78

The Problem of the Cymbala :: HÉLÈNE LA RUE ... 86

Reconstructing an 18th-Century Oboe Reed :: FREDERIC R. PALMER ... 100

The Early Saxophone in Patents 1838-1850 Compared :: WILLIAM McBRIDE ... 112

The Surla and Tapan Tradition in Yugoslav Macedonia :: TIMOTHY RICE ... 122

The Prehistoric Flute - Did it Exist? :: CHRISTINE BRADE ... 138

Notes & Queries
Instruments from the Mary Rose :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 151
The Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments :: ARNOLD MYERS ... 151
Bradshaw's Serpentine Valved Cornopean :: JOHN WEBB ... 154
A Tongue Duct Whistle :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 156
The William Bull Horn :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 157

Reviews ... 159

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NUMBER XXXIV : MARCH 1981, Editor: Anthony Baines

Harpsichord Physics :: MICHAEL SPENCER ... 2

A Three-Key Clarinet by J.C. Denner :: T. ERIC HOEPRICH ... 21

The 17th-Century Recorders of the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna :: FILADELFIO PUGLISI ... 33

The Christ Church Cornetts, and the Ivory Cornett in the Royal College of Music, London :: JULIAN DRAKE ... 44

Roman Church Music: The Place of Instruments after 1600 :: GRAHAM DIXON ... 51

Fret Patterns of the Cittern :: LOUIS PETER GRIJP ... 62

Tongue Duct Flutes. Corrections of an Error :: ERNST EMSHEIMER ... 98

A Medieval Tongue-(Lip-)and-Duct Flute :: CAJSA LUND ... 106

Acoustics and Evolution of Arched Harps :: BO LAWERGREN ... 110

Mandores and Colachons :: DONALD GILL ... 130

Medieval Fiddles at Hardham :: JACQUELINE WILTSHIRE ... 142

Notes & Queries
Arnault's Lute, the Modulus of Elasticity of Mersenne's Gut, and the Downbearing Ratio :: DAVID W. CANTRELL ... 147
Register of Early Reeds: Bassoon Reeds in the Aylesbury Museum :: MARY KIRKPATRICK ... 148
Italian Harpsichords and the Fugger Inventory :: JOHN KOSTER ... 149
More Light on the Cimbasso :: RALPH LEAVIS ... 151

Reviews ... 153

Announcements ... 176

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NUMBER XXXIII : MARCH 1980, Editor: Anthony Baines

Eric Halfpenny, 1906-1979: An Obituary :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 1

Instrumental Accompaniment of Plain-chant in France from the late 18th Century :: WALTER HILLSMAN ... 8

Fourteenth-century Instruments and Tunings: a Treatise by Jean Vaillant? (Berkeley, MS 744) :: CHRISTOPHER PAGE ... 17

The Musical Instrument Inventory of Raymund Fugger :: DOUGLAS ALTON SMITH ... 36

The Importance of the Early English Harpsichord :: JOHN KOSTER ... 45

Venetian Viols of the Sixteenth Century :: MARTIN EDMUNDS ... 74

Imitations of the Colascione in 17th-Century Keyboard Music :: ALEXANDER SILBIGER ... 92

Comments on the Lisbon Collection of Clavichords :: BERNARD BRAUCHLI ... 98

Another Oboe by Jonathan Bradbury: Restoration and Comparison :: MARY KIRKPATRICK ... 106

Some notes on the Early Valve :: REINE DAHLQVIST ... 111

Barbiton and Chrysostom :: PAUL LEWIS ... 125

Notes & Queries
A Carved Wooden Figure at Haddon Hall :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 128
An Early 18th-century French Drawing of Wind Instruments :: EDWARD CROFT-MURRAY ... 130
Machine Timpani from Frankfurt-am-Main :: NANCY BENVENGA ... 130
An Unusual Serpent :: ROBERT PACEY ... 132
The Mythology of the English Harp :: IAN WOODFIELD ... 133
Renaissance Flutes at Verona (corrigenda) :: FILADELFIO PUGLISI ... 134

Reviews ... 135

Correspondence ... 152

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NUMBER XXXII : MAY 1979, Editor: Anthony Baines

Reconstructing the Medieval Arabic Lute: a Reconsideration of Farmer's `Structure of the Arabic and Persian Lute' :: CURTIS BOUTERSE ... 2

The Musical Instrument Collection at Meran :: WILHELM ROOS ... 10

The Renaissance Flutes of the Biblioteca Capitolare of Verona: the Structure of a `Pifaro' :: FILADELFIO PUGLISI ... 24

Christian Gottlob Hubert and his Instruments :: WOLFGANG STRACK ... 38

Tempera and Decorated Keyboard Instruments :: ANN and PETER MACTAGGART ... 59

Sculptures of Medieval Fiddles at Gargilesse :: LAURENCE WRIGHT ... 66

Jerome of Moravia on the Rubeba and Viella :: CHRISTOPHER PAGE ... 77

Garsault on the Clarinet :: ALBERT R. RICE ... 99

More Facts about the `Subkontrafagott' :: JÜRGEN EPPELSHEIM ... 104

The Regency Piano Trade in Aberdeen :: MICHAEL SPILLER ... 115

Some Further Notes on Serpent Technology :: PHILIP BATE ... 124

Obituary: Joseph Marx, 1913-1978 ... 130

Notes & Queries
Another Bass Recorder by Bressan :: BARRA BOYDELL ... 131
Keyless Oboes in Southern France :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 133
Oxford Harpmakers CHRISTOPHER PAGE ... 135

Reviews ... 136

Correspondence
A Three-keyed Oboe by Thomas Collier :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 150
The Maltese Zaqq :: GRAHAM WELLS
The Italian Sonata for Transverse Flute :: MARCELLO CASTELLANI ... 151

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NUMBER XXXI : MAY 1978, Editor: Anthony Baines

The Knole Harpsichord: a reattribution :: ANN and PETER MACTAGGART ... 2

Woodwind Instrument Bore Measurement :: CARY KARP ... 9

The Mythology of the English Harp :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 29

A Three-keyed Oboe by Thomas Collier :: DAVID JONES ... 36

String-Instrument making in Medieval England and some Oxford Harpmakers 1380-1466 :: CHRISTOPHER PAGE ... 44

Oboe Fingering Charts 1695-1816 :: BRUCE HAYNES ... 68

A 17th-Century Flageolet Tablature at Guildford :: DAVID LINDLEY ... 94

Inventory of Instruments: J.H. Eichentopf, Poerschman, Sattler, A. and H. Grenser, Grundmann :: PHILLIP T. YOUNG ... 100

Traditional Music in Haut-Poitou: Les Gens de Cherves :: ALAIN MEUNIER ... 135

Obituary: Joseph Wheeler 1927-1977 :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 142

Notes & Queries
A Register of Early Reeds :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 144
Bandora, Orpharion and Guitar :: DONALD GILL ... 144
Chalumeaux :: CARY KARP ... 144
The Violeta of S. Caterina :: MARCO TIELLA ... 146
The Violone in Bach's Brandenburg Concerti :: RICHARD MAUNDER ... 147
Tournebout-Pifia-Bladderpipe :: CARY KARP ... 147
Dohnal's Pianos :: PETER C. BARNES ... 150
Horn Lore :: PHILIP BATE ... 150
Four More 15th-century Representations of Stringed Keyboard Instruments :: CHRISTOPHER PAGE and LEWIS JONES ... 151

Reviews ... 155

Correspondence
The Maltese Zaqq :: HENRY J. MODREY ... 185

Editor's Note ... 186

Announcement ... 186

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NUMBER XXX : MAY 1977, Editor: Anthony Baines

The Boehm Clarinet in England :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 2

Medieval Gittern and Citole :: A case of mistaken identity :: LAWRENCE WRIGHT ... 8

Oboe, Bassoons, and Bass Clarinets, made by Hartford Connecticut, Makers before 1815 :: ROBERT E. ELIASON ... 43

John Mahon's Clarinet Preceptor :: ANDREW LYLE ... 52

Acoustical Experiments on the Lute Belly :: IAN FIRTH ... 56

Tournebout - Pifia - Bladderpipe (Platerspiel) :: RAINER WEBER ... 64

Indications of Snare-drum Technique in Philidor Collection MS. 1163 :: SUSAN GOERTZEL SANDMAN ... 70

The Regola per suonare il Flauto Italiano by Bartolomeo Bismantova (1677) :: MARCELLO CASTALLANI ... 76

Tongan Musical Instruments (concluded) :: RICHARD M. MOYLE ... 86

The Maltese Zaqq :: J.K. PARTRIDGE and FRANK JEAL ... 112

Notes & Queries
The Importance of Original Double Reeds today :: HANSJÜRG LANGE and BRUCE HAYNES ... 145
A Register of Early Reeds :: BRUCE HAYNES ... 150
Gaudenzio Ferrari :: MARY REMNANT ... 151
Ensemble Music for Small Bassoons :: KARL VENTZKE ... 151
Three Oboes d'Amore from the time of Bach (additions and amendments) :: PAUL HAILPERIN ... 153
Grobert A Paris :: SHEILA SAMSON ... 154
J.S. Bach's Violone Parts :: RALPH LEAVIS ... 155
The Italian Sonata for Transverse Flute :: GRETA MOENS-HAENEN ... 157

Reviews ... 158

Notices ... 169

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NUMBER XXIX : MAY 1976, Editor: Anthony Baines

The Italian Sonata for Transverse Flute and Basso Continuo :: MARCELLO CASTELLANI ... 2

The Historical Development of the Lute in the 17th Century :: MICHAEL LOWE ... 11

Bergeron on Flute-Making :: MICHAEL WRIGHT ... 26

Recorder Finds from the Middle Ages, and Results of their Reconstruction :: RAINER WEBER ... 35

The Tibiae pares of Mook :: JOAN RIMMER ... 42

A Serpent d'Eglise: Notes on some Structural Details :: PHILIP BATE ... 47

Notes on the Fingering Systems of `Boehm' Bassoons :: JERRY L. VOORHEES ... 51

Tongan Musical Instruments :: RICHARD M. MOYLE ... 64

A Case of gesunkenes Kulturgut: The Toila :: FERD. J. DE HEN ... 84

Strings and Stringing: Contemporary Documents :: FRIEDEMANN HELLWIG ... 91

The Violone in Bach's Brandenburg Concerti :: JON W. FINSON ... 105

Notes & Queries
An Unusual Italian Bagpipe :: SVERRE JENSEN and TERJE RICHTER ANDERSEN ... 112
One of Tutankhamon's Trumpets :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 115
In Grobert's Memory :: ROBERT TAKOUSHIAN ... 117
On Finding Franz Danzi's Flute :: PETER OLIVER ... 119
Wind Instruments at Bruges 1975 :: EDGAR HUNT ... 120
`Jew's Harp' :: HAROLD STEAFEL ... 123
Galpin's Copy of His Textbook :: CHARLES LINDHAL ... 123
The Galpin Cornett :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 125
The Christ Church Trophies :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 126
Waldhautbois :: REINE DAHLQVIST ... 126
Instruments for the Disabled :: PHILIP BATE ... 127
An Unusual English 18th-Century Violin Bow :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 129

Reviews ... 130

Correspondence
The Violeta of S. Caterina de'Vigri :: EDGAR HUNT ... 143
Documents relating to Viennese Wind-Instrument Purchases, 1779-1837 :: PAUL HAILPERIN ... 143
Identification of the Chekker :: MARIA BOXALL; EDWIN M. RIPIN ... 143
Downward-plucking Jacks :: IAN BOND; FRANCIS MILLER ... 145

Notices ... 146

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NUMBER XXVIII : APRIL 1975, Editor: Anthony Baines

Matthew Hutton (1638-1711) and his Manuscripts in York Minster Library :: RICHARD CHARTERIS ... 2

Some Researches into Pitch in the 16th Century with particular reference to the Instruments in the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona :: RAINER WEBER ... 7

Towards an Identification of the Chekker :: EDWIN M. RIPIN ... 11

Three Oboes d'Amore from the Time of Bach :: PAUL HAILPERIN ... 26

An Instrument-maker's Report on the Repair and Restoration of an Orpharion :: ROBERT HADAWAY ... 37

A Dutch Harpsichord in the United States :: LAURENCE LIBIN ... 43

Some Documents relating to Viennese Wind-Instrument Purchases, 1779-1837 :: ROGER HELLYER ... 50

The Violeta of S. Caterina de'Vigri :: MARCO TIELLA ... 60

The Construction of the Midwinterhoorn :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 71

The Christ Church Trophies :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 81

Fiddles with Horns :: JULIAN PILLING ... 86

The Swan-neck Lyres of Minoan-Mycenean Culture :: LEOPOLD VORREITER ... 93

Conch Ensembles: Tonga's Unique Contribution to Polynesian Organology :: RICHARD M. MOYLE ... 98

Boehm's Design of the Flute: a Comparison with that of Rockstro :: WALTER E. WORMAN ... 107

Historically justified Keyboard variations on Equal Tempered Tuning :: CLARE G. RAYNER ... 121

Current Register of Historic Instruments :: compiled by PAUL HAILPERIN ... 130

Notes & Queries
Cimbasso :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 133

Correction: Strings in the 16th and 17th Centuries (GSJ XXVII) :: DJILDA ABBOTT and EPHRAIM SEGERMAN ... 134

Reviews ... 135

Correspondence
Conical Boehm Flute :: DANIEL WAITZMAN ... 149

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NUMBER XXVII : MAY 1974, Editor: Anthony Baines

Ferdinand Kauer's Percussion Enterprises :: R.M. LONGYEAR ... 2

Musical Instruments and their Makers in Bristol Apprentice Register, 1536-1643 :: W.L. GOODMAN ... 9

Diderot's Tunings for the Violin Family :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 15

Lute Construction in the Renaissance and the Baroque :: FRIEDEMANN HELLWIG ... 21

Makers' Marks from Renaissance and Baroque Woodwinds :: FRIEDRICH VON HUENE ... 31

Strings in the 16th and 17th Centuries :: DJILDA ABBOTT and EPHRAIM SEGERMAN ... 48

An Unusual Harpsichord :: ROBERT GILCHRIST ... 74

The New Zealand Nose Flute: Fact or Fallacy? :: MERVYN McLEAN ... 79

Stringing Techniques of Harpsichord Builders :: KENNETH BAKEMAN ... 95

On the Shape of the Ancient Greek Lyre :: MARTHA MAAS ... 113

Alpheus Babcock s Cast-Iron Piano Frames :: KEITH G. GRAFING ... 118

The Early Chalumeau Duets :: COLIN LAWSON ... 125

Obituary: Maurice Vincent, 1907-1973 :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 130

Notes & Queries
A Pottery Syrinx from Shakenoak Farm :: ANTHONY R. HANDS ... 132
Query on the habits of Instrument Makers :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 135
Conical Boehm Flute :: DANIEL WAITZMAN ... 138

Reviews ... 139

Correspondence
Building a 15th-century Lute :: IAN HARWOOD ... 158
Spurious (?) Marks on Brass :: PHILIP BATE ... 160
An Improved Clavichord :: EDWIN M. RIPIN ... 161
The Sounding of the Shofar :: FRANK and JOAN HARRISON
Downward-plucking Jacks :: F.H. MILLER ... 162

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NUMBER XXVI : MAY 1973, Editor: Anthony Baines

Instruments in Robert Fludd's Utriusque Cosmi ... Historia :: JOCELYN GODWIN ... 2

A 1593 Veronese Inventory :: MARCELLO CASTELLANI ... 15

Historical Lute Bellies from the Standpoint of modern Statics and Acoustics :: KURT ROTTMANN ... 25

The Sounding of the Shofar :: DAVID WULSTAN ... 29

The Alex Murray Flute :: PHILIP BATE ... 47

Structural Details of two J.H. Eichentopf Oboi da Caccia :: CARY KARP ... 55

Taille, Oboe da Caccia and Corno Inglese :: REINE DAHLQVIST ... 58

Building a 15th-century Lute :: EDWARD L. KOTTICK ... 72

A Reconstruction of Mersenne's Flute :: TREVOR ROBINSON ... 84

Folk Instruments of Belgium: Part II :: FERD. J. DE HEN ... 86

`Carle as da King Come': An Instrumental Survival of a Royalist Song :: JAMES PORTER ... 130

A `Five-foot' Flemish Harpsichord :: EDWIN M. RIPIN ... 135

Cecil Rhodes's `Spinet' :: PAUL LOEB VAN ZUILENBURG ... 138

Notes & Queries
An Improved Clavichord :: ROBERT EDGEWORTH JOHNSTONE ... 141
A 10th-century Bone Flute from North Elmham, Norfolk :: PETER WADE-MARTINS ... 142
The Wooden Pipe from Weoley Castle :: ANTHONY BAINES
Franciolini :: EDWARD M. RIPIN ... 145

Reviews ... 146

Correspondence
Conservation :: CARY KARP ... 154

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NUMBER XXV : JULY 1972, Editor: Anthony Baines

R.F.M.-P. 1890-1972 [obituary of Reginald Morley-Pegge] :: PHILIP BATE ... 2

Canon Galpin's Check Lists :: BRIAN GALPIN ... 4

Some Facts and Guesses concerning Doppioni :: RAINER WEBER and J.H. van der MEER ... 22

Recorders and English Flutes in European Collections :: BOB MARVYN ... 30

The Origin of the Long-necked Lute :: HARVEY TURNBULL ... 58

The Theorbo and Continuo Practice in the Early English Baroque :: EDWARD HUWS JONES ... 67

Two Late-Renaissance Transverse Flutes :: MARCELLO CASTELLANI 73 ... 73

Baroque Woodwind in the Musikhistoriska Museet, Stockholm :: CARY KARP ... 80

Folk Instruments of Belgium: Part I :: FERD. J. DE HEN 87

Current Register of Historic Instruments ... 133

Reviews ... 134

Correspondence
Souvé :: ROBERT A. WARNER ... 146
Conservation :: FRIEDEMANN HELLWIG ... 146

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NUMBER XXIV : JULY 1971, Editor: Anthony Baines

Robert Thurston Dart, 1921-1971. An Appreciation by a friend ... 2

The standing wave-patterns of the Flute :: GILES BRINDLEY ... 5

`Reversed' Portatives and Positives in Early Art :: JACK C. SCHUMAN ... 16

Makers' Marks on Plucked Instruments of the 16th and 17th Centuries :: FRIEDEMANN HELLWIG ... 22

The Museo Stradivariano in Cremona :: PATRIZIA FRISOLI ... 33

Christopher Lowther's Lute Book :: GWILYM BEECHEY ... 51

The Angel Musicians of Aosta Cathedral :: SUSI JEANS ... 60

Instruments for the Goldsmiths Company :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 63

String Gauges of Old Italian Harpsichords :: MICHAEL THOMAS ... 69

Notes on Two Later British Trumpets :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 79

The Hapsburg Imperial Trompeter and Heerpaucker Privileges of 1653 :: DON L. SMITHERS ... 84

Bassoons at the Narodni Museum, Prague :: OTTO OROMSZEGI ... 96

Current Register of Historic Instruments ... 102

Notes & Queries
The Bodhrán :: LILLA FOX ... 104
Instructions for Adjusting the English Piano Action :: CHAS. WEST WILSON ... 105
Biglioni :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 106
Distinctions among the Aerophones :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 106

Reviews ... 108

Correspondence ... 124
Definition of Organology :: THOMAS SHERWOOD ... 124
Souvé :: LYNDESAY G. LANGWILL ... 124
Conservation :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 125
An Example of Lute Restoration :: FRIEDEMANN HELLWIG ... 126
Makers of the Harpsichord & Clavichord, 1440-1840 :: D.H. BOALCH ... 126

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NUMBER XXIII : MARCH 1970, Editor: Eric Halfpenny

Editor's Note ... 1

The Bowed Harp of Trondheim Cathedral and Related Instruments in East and West :: OTTO ANDERSSON ... 4

A `Three-foot' Flemish Harpsichord :: EDWIN M. RIPIN ... 35

A Reassessment of the Fretted Clavichord :: EDWIN M. RIPIN ... 40

The Tuning of the Five-course Guitar :: SYLVIA MURPHY ... 49

An Example of Lute Restoration :: FRIEDEMANN HELLWIG ... 64

The Baroque Recorders in the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments :: ROBERT AUSTIN WARNER and FRIEDRICH VON HUENE ... 69

Der Brummende Violone :: FRANCIS BAINES ... 82

Early American Valves for Brass Instruments :: ROBERT E. ELIASON ... 86

A Drum from Seventeenth Century Africa :: KLAUS WACHSMANN ... 97

On the Reconstruction of Mediaeval Instruments of Percussion :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 104

Current Register of Historic Instruments ... 115

Notes & Queries
A Renaissance Bass Flute :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 116
Cotgrave and the Sourdine :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 116
Some More Denner Guesses :: JOHN HENRY van der MEER ... 117
The Viola da Gamba :: NARCISSA WILLIAMSON ... 119
Salt of the Earth :: JOSEPH WHEELER (junior) ... 120
Curt Sachs and Nürnberg :: JOHN HENRY van der MEER ... 120

Reviews ... 126

Correspondence
I.H.R. Mott 1790-1855 :: IRENE MOTT-COLLIE ... 164
Stiffness in Harpsichord Strings :: THOMAS W. PARSONS ... 164
The `Manuchord' :: PETER KULKELKA ... 165
Brass Strings on Italian Harpsichords :: MICHAEL THOMAS, CHARLES WM. STRONG, W.R. THOMAS and J.J.K. RHODES ... 166
Definition of Organology :: WESLEY M. OLER ... 170
Selected Reports :: JEREMY P.S. MONTAGU ... 172
Dissection of a Serpent :: FRIEDEMANN HELLWIG ... 173

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NUMBER XXII : MARCH 1969, Editor: Eric Halfpenny

The Regal :: HUGH MOUNTNEY ... 3

The Enigmatic Cima: Meantone Tuning and Transpositions :: CLARE G. RAYNER ... 23

Master Arnold Rucker :: FRIEDRICH ERNST ... 35

A Method for Analysing Woodwind Cross-fingerings :: GILES BRINDLEY ... 40

A Fipple Flute or Pipe from the site of Keynsham Abbey :: J.H. BARRETT ... 47

Four Seventeenth-Century British Trumpets :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 51

The Provincial Festivals of the Ashley Family :: BRIAN W. PRITCHARD ... 58

A Note on the History of the Northumbrian Small Pipes :: M.H. ARMSTRONG DAVISON ... 78

Dissection of a Serpent :: FRANK FARRINGTON ... 81

Current Register of Historic Instruments Stanesby Family; Thomas Collier and John Hale; William Bull; Bass Bombards ... 97

Notes & Queries
Biographical Notes on the Ruckers-Couchet Family :: JEANNINE LAMBRECHTS-DOUILLEZ ... 98

Reviews ... 100

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NUMBER XXI : MARCH 1968, Editor: Eric Halfpenny

Foreword :: JACK WESTRUP [The President] ... 3

The Society's First Foreign Tour :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 4

Seventeenth-Century Guitar Music: Notes on Rasgueado Performance :: SYLVIA MURPHY ... 24

The Two-Manual Harpsichord in Flanders Before 1650 :: EDWIN M. RIPIN ... 33

James Talbot's Manuscript: VIII. Harpsichord :: CHARLES MOULD ... 40

Robert ap Huw's Manuscript of Welsh Harp Music (c. 1613) :: THURSTON DART ... 52

The Jew's Harp as Aerophone :: FREDERICK CRANE ... 66

Music and Musical Instruments in Cotgrave's Dictionarie (1611) :: THURSTON DART ... 70

Jacob Denner's Woodwinds for Göttweig Abbey :: HORACE FITZPATRICK ... 81

A Jacob Denner Recorder in the United States of America :: ROBERT AUSTIN WARNER and FRIEDRICH von HUENE ... 88

The Bombards of Master `W' of Rozmberk :: OTTO OROMSZEGI ... 97

Smith, London :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 105

An Inventory of Musical Instruments at the Royal Palace, Madrid, in 1602 :: MARTIN McLEISH ... 108

On the Construction of the Lute Belly :: FRIEDEMANN HELLWIG ... 139

The Use of Frets on Rebecs and Mediaeval Fiddles :: MARY REMNANT ... 146

The Logical Bassoon :: GILES BRINDLEY ... 152

Charity Music in Eighteenth-Century Dublin :: DENIS ARNOLD ... 162

Harpsichord Making and Metallurgy: a Rejoinder :: J.H. van der MEER ... 175

Italian String Scales :: JOHN BARNES (with a reply by J.J.K. RHODES and W.R. THOMAS) ... 179

Current Register of Historic Instruments ... 184

Notes & Queries
British Trumpet Mouthpieces: Addendum :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 185
A Curiosity in Schubert's Trumpet Writing :: JOSEPH WHEELER ... 185
A Duiffoprucgar in London :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 187
French and German Bassoons in London :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 187

Reviews of Books ... 190

Correspondence
Denner Revisited :: J.H. van der MEER ... 208
Remarks on Ruckers :: J.H. van der MEER ... 209
Combined Harpsichord-Pianos :: EDWIN M. RIPIN ... 209

Corrigenda: Volume XX ... 210

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NUMBER XX : MARCH 1967, Editor: Eric Halfpenny

The Bass Bombard of `Master CK' of Sopron :: OTTO OROMSZEGI ... 3

Woodwind Instruments by the Denners of Nürnberg :: PHILLIP T. YOUNG ... 9

The Migration of the Arched Harp from India to Burma :: JUDITH BECKER ... 17

The Vauxhall `Lists' :: CHARLES CUDWORTH ... 24

The French Harpsichord Before 1650 :: EDWIN M. RIPIN ... 43

The String Scales of Italian Keyboard Instruments :: WILLIAM R. THOMAS and J.J.K. RHODES ... 48

Four Ruckers Harpsichords in Berlin :: FRIEDRICH ERNST ... 63

Early British Trumpet Mouthpieces :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 76

A Scientific Approach to the Clavichord :: R.A. HANDS ... 89

Current Register of Historic Instruments ... 99

Notes & Queries
Music Trading in the Antipodes in the Early Nineteenth Century :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 100

Reviews ... 103

Correspondence
English Harpsichord Makers :: CHARLES MOULD ... 140

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NUMBER XIX : APRIL 1966, Editor: Eric Halfpenny

Orchestras in Eighteenth-Century Venice :: DENIS ARNOLD ... 3

Instrumentation in the Music of Antony Holborne :: BRIAN JEFFERY ... 20

Ibn al-Munajjim and the Early Arabian Modes :: OWEN WRIGHT ... 27

Two Rival Harpsichord Specifications :: JOHN BARNES ... 49

Francis Galpin and the Triangular Harps :: OTTO ANDERSSON ... 57

The Morphology of the Triple Harp II :: Addendum on a late Italian Example :: JOAN RIMMER ... 61

New Light on the `Regent's Bugle': with some notes on the Keyed Bugle :: JOSEPH WHEELER ... 65

The Goldsmith-Trumpet-makers of the British Isles :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 71

Friction Chordophones in South-Eastern Africa :: DAVID RYCROFT ... 84

An Index of British Makers of Historical Keyboard Instruments :: CHARLES MOULD ... 101

Current Register of Historic Musical Instruments ... 131

Notes & Queries
John Marsh and the Subscription Concert :: CHARLES CUDWORTH ... 132
George Miller and John Cramer :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 134
A Pitch for 1774 :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 136

Reviews ... 137

Correspondence
Clarinet Fingerings :: ROSARIO MAZZEO ... 166
Handel's Trumpet Parts :: JOSEPH WHEELER ... 167
Bernard Smith and the British Organ :: CECIL CLUTTON ... 168
Clavichord, Clavichord and Square Piano :: ROBINA BECKLES WILLSON ... 168
Library Filmstrips :: EDMUND BOWLES ... 169
Schuchart :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 169

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NUMBER XVIII : MARCH 1965, Editor: Eric Halfpenny

Editorial ... 3

A Catalogue of Musicall Instruments :: SAMUEL HELLIER ... 5

Schuchart and the Extended Foot-Joint :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 7

Further Notes on the Classic Trumpet :: JOSEPH WHEELER ... 14

The Trumpets of J.W. Haas :: DON SMITHERS ... 23

Early English Clarinets :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 42

Hints to Young Composers of Instrumental Music :: JOHN MARSH (Introduced by CHARLES CUDWORTH) ... 57

Instruments and Instrumental Teaching in the Early Italian Conservatoires :: DENIS ARNOLD ... 72

Early Chinese Friction-Chordophones :: LAURENCE PICKEN ... 82

The Morphology of the Triple Harp :: JOAN RIMMER ... 90

The Gittern in English Mediaeval Art :: MARY REMNANT ... 104

Pitch Variations in Italian Keyboard Instruments :: JOHN BARNES ... 110

A Flemish Quint Harpsichord :: J.H. van der MEER ... 117

Current Register of Historic Instruments ... 122

Christopher Galpin, 1892-1964 [obituary] ... 123

Notes & Queries
Crumhorns in English Music :: EDMUND A. BOWLES ... 124
A Mechanical Harpsichord in Sixteenth-century Venice :: DENIS ARNOLD ... 125
Instruments by Claude Rafi in the Collection of Manfredo Settala :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 126
Early English Bassoon Fingerings :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 127
Additions and Corrections to the Church Band at Swalcliffe :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 128
An Organ Contract of `Father' Smith :: CYNTHIA BOROUGH ... 129

Book Reviews ... 130

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NUMBER XVII : FEBRUARY 1964, Editor: Eric Halfpenny

Mabel Dolmetsch 1875-1963 ... 3

An Example of Harpsichord Restoration :: J.H. van der MEER ... 5

Mersenne's Unknown English Viol Player :: RAYMOND VAUGHT ... 17

Of the Sizes of Viols :: NATHALIE DOLMETSCH ... 24

Joachim Tielke :: GÜNTHER HELLWIG ... 28

The Morphology of the Irish Harp :: JOAN RIMMER ... 39

A Nepalese Double Horn :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 50

The Classification of the Flute :: ADOLF VEENSTRA ... 54

The Carillons of the Cathedral of Peter and Paul in the Fortress of Leningrad :: PERCIVAL PRICE ... 64

An Eighteenth-Century Bohemian School of Horn-Makers :: HORACE FITZPATRICK ... 77

The Church Band at Swalcliffe :: MAURICE BYRNE ... 89

An Eighteenth-Century Trade List of Musical Instruments :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 99

The Earliest English Bassoon Tutor :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 103

Woodwind Instruments by P-I Bressan ... 106

Current Register of Historic Instruments ... 108

Notes & Queries
A Virginal by (?) Franciscus Bonafinis, 1560, at Ingatestone Hall :: F.G. EMMISON ... 109
Opus Anglicanum :: MARY REMNANT ... 111
Lament for `Fusedule Tecil' :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 113
Michael Corrette on the Piccolo and Speculations Regarding Vivaldi's `Flautino' :: DALE HIGBEE ... 115
A Medieval Bone Pipe from White Castle :: J.V.S. MEGAW ... 116

Book Reviews ... 118

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NUMBER XVI : MAY 1963, Editor: Anthony Baines

An Elizabethan Tutor for the Guitar :: DANIEL HEARTZ ... 3

A Surviving Vihuela de Mano :: MICHAEL PRYNNE ... 22

A List of Irish Instrument Makers :: JOHN TEAHAN ... 28

Some Historical Notes on the Horn in Germany and Austria :: HORACE FITZPATRICK ... 33

Two Oxford Trumpets :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 49

James Talbot's Manuscript: VI. Harps :: JOAN RIMMER ... 63

Pierre Trichet's Traité des Instruments de Musique: Supplement (continued) :: FRANÇOIS LESURE ... 73

A Medieval Bone Pipe from White Castle, Monmouthshire :: J.V.S. MEGAW ... 85

Gadulkas in Bulgaria :: IVAN KACHULEV ... 95

Letter to the Editor
Crumhorns in English Music :: WESLEY M. OLER ... 108

Reviews ... 110

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NUMBER XV : MARCH 1962, Editor: Anthony Baines

A Study of Instrumental Ensemble Practice in Seventeenth-Century France :: ALBERT COHEN ... 3

William Bull and the English Baroque Trumpet :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 18

Two Late Eighteenth-Century Instructions for Making Double Reeds :: THOMAS WARNER ... 25

Hüllmandel's Article on the Clavecin in the Encyclopédie Méthodique :: RITA BENTON ... 34

Another Treble Flute D'Allemagne by P-J Bressan :: WILLIAM LICHTENWANGER ... 45

Technology of a Bass Recorder :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 49

A Plea for the Tenor Recorder by Thomas Stanesby Jr. :: DALE S. HIGBEE ... 55

James Talbot's Manuscript: V. Plucked Strings - The Wire-strung Fretted Instruments and the Guitar :: DONALD GILL ... 60

Pierre Trichet's Traité des Instruments de Musique: Supplement :: FRANÇOIS LESURE ... 70

Virdung's Keyboard Illustrations :: JACOB EISENBERG ... 82

Letter to the Editor
The Chalumeau Problem :: J.H. van der MEER ... 89

Notes & Queries
Bernard Hague 1893-1960 [obituary] :: PHILIP BATE ... 92
The Fifteenth-century Carvings of Musical Instruments in Rosslyn Chapel, near Edinburgh :: LYNDESAY G. LANGWILL ... 94
Brustgrün of Flensburg :: LYNDESAY G. LANGWILL ... 95
Carlo Palanca :: LYNDESAY G. LANGWILL ... 97
Third-octave Fingerings in Eighteenth-century Recorder Charts :: DALE S. HIGBEE ... 97

Reviews ... 100

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NUMBER XIV : MARCH 1961, Editor: Anthony Baines

ERICH M. VON HORNBOSTEL and CURT SACHS: Classification of Musical Instruments :: Translated from the original German by ANTHONY BAINES and KLAUS P. WACHSMANN ... 3

Ornament Signs in Jacobean Music for Lute and Viol :: THURSTON DART ... 30

The Instruments of the King's Library at Versailles :: SIBYL MARCUSE ... 34

Church Band, Dumb Organist, and Organ :: H.B. SHARP ... 37

Some Light on the Chalumeau :: EDGAR HUNT ... 41

A Baroque Violin from Northumberland :: KENNETH SKEAPING ... 45

Notes on the Vienna Horn :: HORACE FITZPATRICK ... 49

James Talbot's Manuscript: IV. Plucked Strings - The Lute Family :: MICHAEL PRYNNE ... 52

Letter to the Editor
Restoration of Square Pianos :: C.F. Colt ... 69

Notes & Queries
J. Boie of Göttingen (1762-1809) :: LYNDESAY G. LANGWILL ... 72
John Petre's Account-Books, 1567-1577 :: F.G. EMMISON ... 73
Recorder Fingerings :: EDGAR HUNT ... 76
The Russian Folk Cornett, or Rozhok :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 76

Reviews ... 79

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NUMBER XIII : JULY 1960, Editor: Anthony Baines

Editorial ... 3

William Shaw's `Harmonic Trumpet' :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 7

The Orpharion and Bandora :: DONALD GILL ... 14

The Drawings of Musical Instruments in MS Add. 30342 at the British Museum :: SUSI JEANS and GUY OLDHAM ... 26

The Seventeenth-century Organ at Adlington Hall :: CECIL CLUTTON ... 32

Two Rare Transverse Flutes :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 38

The Chirimia: A Latin American Shawm :: CHARLES McNETT ... 44

Harpsichord Making in Paris: Eighteenth Century :: PIERRE J. HARDOUIN ... 52

Further Light on the Stanesby Family :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 59

Provisional Index of Present-day Makers of Historical Musical Instruments (Non-keyboard) ... 70

Notes & Queries
Ailsa Galpin 1921-1959 [obituary] :: JOAN RIMMER ... 88
Sixt Rauolf, Lute Maker :: GUY OLDHAM ... 88
Harpsichord String Gauges in Seventeenth-century Germany :: SIMONE WALLON ... 89
Manufacture of Strings in England in the Eighteenth Century :: SUSI JEANS ... 90
Recorder Fingerings :: J.F.W. JURITZ ... 91
Square Pianos :: TERENCE USHER ... 92
The Zillah and Ronald Castle Collection :: RONALD CASTLE ... 93
The Leblanc Saxophones and Contrabass Clarinets :: JAMES A. McGILLIVRAY ... 94
A New System of Classifying Musical Instruments Used in the U.S.S.R. :: JEAN L. JENKINS ... 95

Reviews 98

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NUMBER XII : MAY 1959, Editor: Anthony Baines

Editorial ... 3

Adam Carse, 1878-1958 [obituary] :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 6

Francis William Galpin: Music Maker :: STANLEY GODMAN ... 8

Ancient Peruvian Instruments :: ROBERT STEVENSON ... 17

Biographical Notices of the Early English Woodwind-making School :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 44

The `Anaconda' :: R. MORLEY PEGGE ... 53

The Phagotum: An Attempt at Reconstruction :: WILLIAM A. COCKS ... 57

The Elizabethan Lute :: DONALD GILL ... 60

The `Boehm' Bassoon: A Retrospect :: LYNDESAY G. LANGWILL ... 63

Recent Advances in Woodwind Fingering Systems :: JAMES A. MACGILLIVRAY ... 68

Harpsichord Making in Paris: Part II, Eighteenth Century :: PIERRE T. HARDOUIN ... 72

The Royal Seraphine in Jersey :: RAYMOND FALLE ... 86

Letter to the Editor
Once More `Musical Instruments in the Liturgical Service in the Middle Ages' :: EDMUND A. BOWLES ... 89

Notes & Queries
Recorder `Gracings' in 1700 :: THURSTON DART ... 93
Two Barrel Organ Transcriptions :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 94
Wooden Timpani :: JEREMY MONTAGU ... 98

Reviews ... 99

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NUMBER XI : MAY 1958, Editor: Anthony Baines

Miss Mary Burwell's Instruction Book for the Lute :: THURSTON DART ... 3

Rosseters in Holland :: CHRISTIAAN VLAM and THURSTON DART ... 63

The Repertory of the Royal Wind Music :: THURSTON DART ... 70

Ensemble Music for Small Bassoons :: H. JEAN HEDLUND ... 78

Letter to the Editor
Musical Instruments in the Liturgical Service in the Middle Ages :: ROBERT DONINGTON ... 85

Notes and News
An Early Organ at Saffron Walden :: THURSTON DART ... 88
Fingering the High Notes on the Recorder :: EDGAR HUNT ... 90
Bressan in 1690 :: SUSI JEANS ... 91

Book Reviews ... 93

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NUMBER X : MAY 1957, Editor: Anthony Baines

Woodwind and other Orchestral Instruments in Russia Today :: JAMES A. MACGILLIVRAY ... 3

Harpsichord Making in Paris: Part I, Eighteenth Century :: PIERRE J. HARDOUIN, with Introduction and Notes by FRANK HUBBARD ... 10

The Evolution of the Bassoon in England, 1750-1800 :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 30

Were Musical Instruments used in the Liturgical Service during the Middle Ages? :: EDMUND A. BOWLES ... 40

Some Improvements in Music noted by William Turner in 1697 :: MICHAEL TILMOUTH ... 57

A Seventeenth-century Oboe Consort :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 60

An Early Medieval Slav Gesle :: ALICIA SIMON ... 63

Recent Researches into French Organ-building from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century :: NORBERT DU FOURCQ ... 66

Notes and News
Kenneth Holland Macdermott 1868-1956 [obituary] :: LYNDESAY G. LANGWILL ... 82
John Lynn Boston [obituary] :: D.H. BOALCH ... 83
King Henry IV, Recorder-player :: BRIAN TROWELL ... 83
Bressan and Schickhardt :: THURSTON DART ... 85
The Voice Flute :: EDGAR HUNT ... 86
La Facture Instrumental à Paris au Seizième Siecle :: FRANÇOIS LESURE ... 87
Some Sixteenth-century French Drawings :: THURSTON DART ... 88
Sixteenth-century Wind Instruments in Modern Manufacture :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 89

Book Reviews ... 90

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NUMBER IX : JUNE 1956, Editor: Anthony Baines

Gerald Hayes, 1889-1955 ... 3

The Spanish Guitar in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries :: TERENCE USHER ... 5

The Encyclopédie and the French Harpsichord :: FRANK HUBBARD ... 37

Musicians and Scrapers: an eighteenth-century opinion :: J.L. BOSTON ... 51

Baroque Court and Military Trumpets and Kettledrums: Technique and Music :: CALDWELL TITCOMB ... 56

The English Baroque Treble Recorder :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 82

The Regent's Bugle :: R. MORLEY PEGGE ... 91

Import and Export Duties on Musical Instruments in 1660 :: GUY F. OLDHAM ... 97

Notes & Queries
The Virginalist's Ornaments :: CECIL CLUTTON ... 99

Book Reviews ... 100

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NUMBER VIII : MARCH 1955, Editor: Thurston Dart

Some Speculations on a Crisis in the History of the Violin :: KENNETH SKEAPING ... 3

A Hand-List of English Instrumental Music Printed Before 1681 :: THURSTON DART ... 13

The Bass Recorders of Bressan :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 27

The Origin of the Short Lute :: LAWRENCE PICKEN ... 32

Music in the Boteler Muniments :: GERALD HAYES ... 43

The `Chord' in Monocord, Clavicord, Harpsicord and Vocal Cord :: JACOB EISENBERG ... 47

The French Hautboy: A Technical Survey; Part II :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 50

Letters to the Editor
The Sound-hole in a Flute :: H. HICKMAN ... 60
Shawm and Oboe Embouchure :: PHILIP BATE ... 60
Purcell's Golden Sonata :: WALTER BERGMAN ... 61
Angelic Musicians from Central Asia :: GERALD HAYES ... 61

Notes & Queries
A Polish Organ of the Eighteenth Century :: ALICIA SIMON ... 62

Book Reviews ... 62

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NUMBER VII : APRIL 1954, Editor: Thurston Dart

An Early Virginal-Maker in Chester, and His Tools :: J.L. BOSTON ... 3

The Instruments in the Ashmolean Museum :: THURSTON DART ... 7

La Facture Instrumentale à Paris au Seizième Siècle :: FRANÇOIS LESURE ... 11

Letters to the Editor
The Sound-hole in a Flute :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 53
The Buonaccordo :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 54

Notes & Queries
Angelic Musicians from Central Asia :: MICHAEL PRYNNE ... 54
A London Organ-builder :: JOHN L. BOSTON ... 56
Amsterdam and the Pierement :: IAN F. FINLAY ... 57

Book Reviews ... 58

Music Received ... 61

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NUMBER VI : JULY 1953, Editor: Thurston Dart

The Galpin Society :: GERALD HAYES ... 3

F.G.R. 1890-1953 [obituary of Geoffrey Rendall] :: PHILIP BATE ... 7

Continuo Instruments in Italian Monodies :: NIGEL FORTUNE ... 10

The Sources of English Lute Music (1540-1620) :: DAVID LUMSDEN ... 14

The French Hautboy: A Technical Survey, Part I :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 23

The Mock Trumpet :: THURSTON DART ... 35

Instruments at the Court of Burgundy (1363-1467) :: EDMUND A. BOWLES ... 41

Musical Instruments in 17th-century Dutch Paintings :: IAN F. FINLAY ... 52

The Ghent Chime Book :: THURSTON DART ... 70

The Transition from Harpsichord to Piano :: ALBERT G. HESS ... 75

The Peacock Feast :: J. PAGE-PHILLIPS and THURSTON DART ... 95

Letters to the Editor
Two Curious Instruments at Verona :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 98
The Tenner Hoboy :: PHILIP BATE; ERIC HALFPENNY ... 100
The Sound-hole in a Flute :: DUDLEY WILKINS ... 102
An English Wind-Player at the Court of Medici :: NIGEL FORTUNE ... 102
W.F.H. Blandford [obituary] :: R. MORLEY-PEGGE ... 103

Notes & Queries
Two Documents from Avignon :: FRANÇOIS LESURE ... 105
Derosier's Guitar Tutor :: THURSTON DART ... 107
The Carillons of Amsterdam :: IAN F. FINLAY ... 107
Musical Instruments in Diderot's Encyclopaedia :: THURSTON DART ... 109
The Angelique in 1653 :: FRANÇIS LESURE ... 111
English Cittern Music :: THURSTON DART ... 112

Reviews ... 113

Books received ... 120

Classified List of Contents of the Journal, Nos. I-V ... 123

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NUMBER V : MARCH 1952, Editor: Thurston Dart

Arnault's MS :: CECIL CLUTTON ... 3

Shawms of the Sardana Coblas :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 9

The `Tenner Hoboy' :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 17

The Malham Iron-Age Pipe :: A. RAISTRICK; PROF. SPAUL; E. TODD ... 28

Musical Instruments in Gotfrid von Strassburg's `Tristan und Isolde' :: IAN F. FINLAY ... 39

James Talbot s Manuscript :: WILLIAM A. COCKS ... 44

Giustiniani on Instruments :: NIGEL FORTUNE ... 48

Notes & Queries
A Barrel Organ Transcription :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 54
Talbot and the Double Bass :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 56
Four Dutch Recorder Books :: THURSTON DART ... 60

Book Reviews ... 61

Books, Music and Periodicals received ... 65

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NUMBER IV : JUNE 1951, Editor: Thurston Dart

The Tone of the Baroque Oboe :: JOSEF MARX ... 3

The Polychord :: WALTER NEF ... 20

Miscellanea Egyptologica :: HANS HICKMANN ... 25

Two Cassel Inventories :: ANTHONY C. BAINES ... 30

The Earliest Collections of Clarinet Music :: THURSTON DART ... 39

A Seventeenth-Century Flute d'Allemagne :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 42

Notes & Queries
The Sound Hole in a Flute :: OTTO ZDANSKY ... 45
An Unrecorded Lute by Hans Frei :: M.W. PRYNNE ... 46

Book Reviews ... 48

Books, Music and Periodicals received ... 54

Notes for Contributors ... 58

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NUMBER III : MARCH 1950, Editor: Thurston Dart

Handel and the Clarinet :: R.B. CHATWIN ... 3

The Lute and Musick's Monument :: DONALD GILL ... 9

Two Early English Harpsichords :: FRANK HUBBARD ... 12

Fifteenth-century Instruments in Tinctoris's De Inventione et Usu Musicae :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 19

James Talbot's Manuscript :: ROBERT DONINGTON ... 27

Notes & Queries
The Lyrichord :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 46
Calcott's Radius French Horn :: R. MORLEY-PEGGE ... 49

Book Reviews ... 51

Books Music and Periodicals received ... 57

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NUMBER II : MARCH 1949, Editor: Thurston Dart

The `Adam Carse' Collection of Wind Instruments :: ADAM CARSE ... 3

The English 2- and 3-Keyed Hautboy :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 10

An Eighteenth-Century Directory of London Musicians :: [MORTIMER] ... 27

Musical Instruments in Fifteenth-Century Netherlands and Italian Art :: VALENTIN DENIS ... 32

An Unrecorded Lute by Hans Frei :: MICHAEL PRYNNE ... 47

Notes & Queries
Calcott's Radius French Horn: An English `Cor Omintonique' :: PHILIP BATE ... 52

Book Reviews ... 54

Notes for Contributors ... 62

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NUMBER I : MARCH 1948, Editor: Thurston Dart

Foreword :: JACK WESTRUP [The President] ... 2

F.W.G. 1858-1945 [obituary of Francis Galpin] :: F. GEOFFREY RENDALL ... 3

James Talbot's Manuscript :: ANTHONY BAINES ... 9

Early Orchestras: Some Contemporary Accounts :: [THOMAS CORYAT] ... 27

Studies in Keyboard Temperaments :: A.R. McCLURE ... 28

A Note on the Genealogy of the Double Bass :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 41

The Cittern and Its English Music :: THURSTON DART ... 46

Notes & Queries
An Unusual English Bassoon :: PHILIP BATE ... 64
A Tuning Hammer for Bowed Instruments :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 64

Book Reviews ... 65

Notes for Contributors ... 70

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