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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Reviews ... 126
Correspondence
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
Reviews ... 100
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
Reviews of Books ... 190
Correspondence
Corrigenda: Volume XX ... 210
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
Reviews ... 103
Correspondence
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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
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
NUMBER XXII : MARCH 1969, Editor: Eric Halfpenny
The Regal :: HUGH MOUNTNEY ... 3
Biographical Notes on the Ruckers-Couchet Family :: JEANNINE LAMBRECHTS-DOUILLEZ ... 98
NUMBER XXI : MARCH 1968, Editor: Eric Halfpenny
Foreword :: JACK WESTRUP [The President] ... 3
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
Denner Revisited :: J.H. van der MEER ... 208
Remarks on Ruckers :: J.H. van der MEER ... 209
Combined Harpsichord-Pianos :: EDWIN M. RIPIN ... 209
NUMBER XX : MARCH 1967, Editor: Eric Halfpenny
The Bass Bombard of `Master CK' of Sopron :: OTTO OROMSZEGI ... 3
Music Trading in the Antipodes in the Early Nineteenth Century :: ERIC HALFPENNY ... 100
English Harpsichord Makers :: CHARLES MOULD ... 140
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