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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER LXI [9 reviews of 9 titles] 2008, Reviews Editor: Bradley Strauchen-Scherer

JON BANKS: The Instrumental Consort Repertory of the Late Fifteenth Century :: FRANCES PALMER

FRANK P. BÄR: Verzeichnis der Europäischen Musikinstrumente im Germanischen Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Band 6: Liebesklarinetten, Bassetthörnern, Bassklarinetten und Metallklarinetten :: HEIKE FRICKE

PETER BAVINGTON: Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance :: LANCE WHITEHEAD

STEWART CARTER (ed): Brass Scholarship in Review: Proceedings of the Historic Brass Society Conference, Cité de la Musique, Paris 1999 :: CLIFFORD BEVAN

HEIKE FRICKE et al. and ARNOLD MYERS (ed): Historic Musical Instruments in the University of Edinburgh Collection: Catalogue of the Sir Nicholas Shackleton Collection :: AL RICE

BOJE E. HANS SCHMUL and MONIKA LUSTIG (eds): Michaelsteiner Konferenzbericht 68: Geschichte und Bauweise des Tafelklaviers :: CHARLES MOULD

BOJE E. HANS SCHMUL and MONIKA LUSTIG (eds): Michaelsteiner Konferenzbericht 70: Jagd-und Waldhörner: Geschichte und musikalische Nutzung :: JOHN HUMPHRIES

JOHN HENRY VAN DER MEER: Alla ricerca dei suoni perduti: Arte e musica negli strumenti della collezione di Fernanda Giulini :: CHARLES MOULD

ELIZABETH WELLS and CHRISTOPHER NOBBS: Royal College of Music Museum of Instruments, Catalogue Part III: European Stringed Instruments :: DARCY KURONEN

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER LX [8 reviews of 8 titles] 2007, Reviews Editor: Margaret Birley

ROBERT BIGIO: Readings in the History of the Flute: Monographs, Essays Letters and Advertisements Monographs, Essays Letters and Advertisements from 19th Century London from 19th Century London. :: EDWINA SMITH

MITCHELL CLARK: Sounds of the Silk Road: Musical Instruments of Asia Musical Instruments of Asia. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

MICHAEL COLE: Broadwood Square Pianos. :: KENNETH MOBBS

GERHARD DODERER and JOHN HENRY VAN DER MEER: Cordofones de Tecla Portugueses do Sicolo XVIII: Clavicórdios, Cravos, Pianofortes e Espinetas. Portuguese String Keyboard Instruments Espinetas. Portuguese String Keyboard Instruments of the 18th Century: Clavichords, Harpsichords, Fortepianos and Spinets Fortepianos and Spinets. :: DARRYL MARTIN

TREVOR HERBERT: The Trombone :: ARNOLD MYERS

MAGGIE KILBEY: Curtal, Dulcian, Bajón: a History of the Precursor to the Bassoon History of the Precursor to the Bassoon :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE

RENATO MEUCCI (ed.) Un corpo alla ricerca dell'anima...Andrea Amati e la nascita del violino/ Andrea Amati and the birth of the violin Andrea Amati and the birth of the violin. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

CLAUDIO PARADISO (ed.): Il Flauto in Italia. :: TULA GIANNINI

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER LIX [10 reviews of 10 titles] 2006, Reviews Editor: Margaret Birley

JUAN MARI BELTRAN ARGIÑENA: Txalaparta eta beste aldaera zaharrak: lan Erritmoetatik musikara / La txalaparta, antecedentes y variantes = The Txalaparta, Forerunners and Variants. Oairtzun: Herri Musikaren Txokoa, 2004. ISBN 84-8891714-7. Text in Basque, Spanish, French and English. 239 pages. Price: euro 9. :: ARGIBEL EUBA UGARTE

JAN BOUTERSE (tr. Ruth Koenig): Dutch Woodwind Instruments and their Makers 1660-1760. Utrecht: Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 2005. 79pp. ISBN 90-6375-198-2 (hardback). CD-ROM with full text. 615pp. Over 2000 illustrations. Price: euro 55. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

RALPH T. DUDGEON: The Keyed Bugle, 2nd edition. Lantham, Maryland and London: Scarecrow Press, 2004. 371pp. ISBN 0-8108-5123-7. Price: pounds sterling 35 / $55 :: CLIFFORD BEVAN

ELLEN HICKMANN and RICARDO EICHMANN: Studien zur Musikarchäologie 4. Musikarchäologie Quellengruppen: Bodenurkunden, mündliche Überlieferung, Aufzeichnung. Music-Archaeological Sources: Finds, Oral Transmission, Written Evidence: Papers from the 3rd Symposium of the International Study Group on Music Archaeology at Monastery Michaelstein, 9-16 June 2002. Orient -Archäologie Band 15. Rahden: Marie Ledorf, 2004. xxvi + 583pp. Text in German and English. ISBN 3-89646-645-3 (hardback). Price: euro 95. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

PAUL LAIRD: The Baroque Cello Revival: An Oral History. Lantham: Scarecrow Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8108-5153-9 (hardback). xv + 373pp. Price: pounds sterling 42. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

ALISTAIR LAURENCE: The Broadwood Barless Piano: A History. Skipton: Pioneer Press, 2004. 47pp. Price: pounds sterling 6. :: KENNETH MOBBS

MONIKA LUSTIG (ed.): Gitarre und Zister - Bauweise, Spieltechnik und Geschichte bis 1800. Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 66. 22 Musikinstrumentenbau-Symposium Michaelstein 16 bis 18 November 2001. Blankenberg: Kloster Michaelstein / Janos Stekovics, 2004. ISBN 3-89512-125-8 (paperback). Text in German and English. Price: euro 35. :: DARRYL MARTIN

SUSAN ORLANDO (ed.): A Viola da Gamba Miscellanea. Articles from and inspired by viol symposiums organized by the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, France. 244pp. ISBN 2-84287-353-X (paperback). Price: euro 40. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

JONATHAN WAINWRIGHT and PETER HOLMAN (eds.): From Renaissance to Baroque: Change in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. xx + 321pp. ISBN 0-7546-0403-9 (hardback). Price: 55. :: FRANCES PALMER

WALTER WINDISCH-LAUBE: Einer luftgebornen Muse geheimnisvolles Saitenspiel: Zum Sinn-Bild der Äeolsharfe in Texten und Tönen seit dem 18. Jahrhundert. Musik in Kanon der Künste, 3. Mainz: Are Musik Verlags, 2004. 3 volumes. ISBN 3-924522-18-9 (paperback). Text in German. Price: euro 98. :: MARTIN ELSTE

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER LVIII [10 reviews of 10 titles] 2005, Reviews Editor: Margaret Birley

ROBERT BARCLAY: The Preservation and Use of Historic Musical Instruments: Display Case and Concert Hall. London: Earthscan, 2004. xv, 303pp. illus. ISBN 1-84407-127-8 (paperback). Price: pounds sterling 35.00. :: ARNOLD MYERS

GEOFFREY BURGESS and BRUCE HAYNES: The Oboe. New Haven and London:Yale University Press, 2004, 2001. ISBN 0-200 09317-9 (hardback); 0-300-10053-1 (paperback). xiv, 418pp., illustrations. Prices: pounds sterling 35 and pounds sterling 19.95. :: SIMON MILTON

MURRAY CAMPBELL, CLIVE GREATED and ARNOLD MYERS: Musical Instruments: History, Technology and Performance of Instruments of Western Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-816504-8 (hardback). ix, 510pp., illus. Price: pounds sterling 125.00. :: FRANCES PALMER

RALPH T. DUDGEON and FRANZ X. STREITWIESER: Das Flügelhorn: die Geschichte des Flügelhorns - illustriert am Beispiel der Sammlung Streitwieser im Musikinstrumentenmuseum Schloss Kremsegg = The Fluegelhorn: The History of the Fluegelhorn as illustrated by the Streitwieser Collection in the Instrument Museum of Schloss Kremsegg. Bergkirchen: Bochinsky, 2004. 251pp. illus. ISBN 3-932275-83-7 (hardback). Parallel text in German and English. Price: Euro 76.00. :: ARNOLD MYERS

ANNETTE OTTERSTEDT (with translations by Hans Reiners): Diego Ortiz: Trattado de Glosas (Rome 1553). Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2003. ISBN 3-7618-1594-8 (hardback). 125pp. Price: pounds sterling 28.00. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

GABRIELE ROSSI ROGNONI (ed.): Bartolomeo Cristofori. La spinetta ovale del 1690. Studi e ricerche. The 1690 oval spinet. Study and Research: Essays by Gabriele Rossi-Rognoni, Giulia Montanari, Tony Chinnery with Kerstin Schwarz, Grant O'Brien. Livorno: Sillabe, 2002. 94pp., 28 illus. ISBN 88-8327-143-1. Text in Italian and English. :: JOHN HENRY van der MEER

JOHN SPITZER and NEAL ZASLAW: The Birth of the Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650-1815. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. pp. 614, 16 plates, 41 figures, 42 tables and documents, 46 musical examples. ISBN 0-19-816434-3. Price: pounds sterling 95.00, $175.00. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

EDWARD H. TARR: East Meets West. The Russian Trumpet Tradition from the Time of Peter the Great to the October Revolution, with a Lexicon of Trumpeters Active in Russia from the Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth. Phillsdale NY: Pendragon Press, 2003. xxiv+508 pp., musical examples, 5 illus. ISBN1-57647-028-8 (hardback). Price: pounds sterling 50.00. :: STEPHEN COTTRELL

BETTINA WACKERNAGEL: Musikinstrumentenverzeichnis der bayerischen Hofkapelle von 1655: Faksimile, Transkription und Kommentar. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 2003, 185 pages, 23 illustrations, of which 5 in colour. ISBN 3-7952-1137-9. Price: Euro 49.00. :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE

MIMI S.WAITZMAN: Early Keyboard Instruments: Catalogue of the Benton Fletcher Collection at Fenton House. London: National Trust Enterprises Ltd., 2003. pp.112, illus., plus CD. ISBN 0-7078-0353-5 (hardback). Price: pounds sterling 25.00. :: CHARLES MOULD

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER LVII [10 reviews of 10 titles] 2004, Reviews Editor: Margaret Birley

ELIZABETH BALDWIN: Playing the Piper: Music in pre-1542 Cheshire. :: MARY REMNANT

EDMUND A. BOWLES: The Timpani: a History in Pictures and Documents. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

PHILIPPE ALLAIN-DUPRÉ: Les Flûtes de Claude Rafi: fleustier lyonnais au XVIe siècle. :: EDWINA SMITH

FRANCA FALLETTI, RENATO MEUCCI and GABRIELE ROSSI-ROGNONI (eds). La Musica e i suoi Strumenti, Catalogo della Collezione Granducale del Conservatorio Cherubini. GABRIELE ROSSI-ROGNONI (ed.). La musica alla corte dei Granduchi/Music at the Grand-ducal Court. :: JOHN HENRY VAN DER MEER

GERALD GIFFORD: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music Collection at Burghley House, Stamford. :: CHARLES MOULD

BRUCE HAYNES: A History of Performing Pitch: The Story of "A". :: JEREMY MONTAGU

EDWARD L. KOTTICK: A History of the Harpsichord. :: CHARLES MOULD

GIANNI LAZZARI. II Flauto Traverso: storia tecnica, acustica con II flauto nel Novecento di Emilio Galante. :: TULA GIANNINI

HOWARD SCHOTT (ed): The Historical Harpsichord, Volume IV. :: DARRYL MARTIN

JOSE L. ROMANILLOS VEGA and MARIAN HARRIS WINSPEAR: The Vihuela de Mano and the Spanish Guitar. A Dictionary of the Makers of Plucked and Bowed Musical Instruments of Spain (1200-2002). :: Beryl Kenyon DE PASCUAL

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER LVI [11 reviews of 11 titles] 2003, Reviews Editor: Margaret Birley

BRIGITTE BACHMANN-GEISER: Europäische Musikinstrumente im Bernischen Historischen Museum: Die Sammlung als Spiegel bernischer Musikkultur. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

ANDY BENNETT and KEVIN DAWE (eds): Guitar Cultures. :: DARRYL MARTIN

JOACHIM BRAUN: Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine: Archaeological, Written, and Comparative Sources. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

CYNTHIA ADAMS HOOVER, PATRICK RUCKER and EDWIN M. GOOD: Piano 300: Celebrating Three Centuries of People and Pianos. :: KENNETH MOBBS

ALFONS HUBER, HANS SCHNEIDER (eds): Das Österreichische Cembalo, 600 Jahre Cembalobau in Österreich. Im Gedanken an Herman Poll aus Wien (1370-1401). :: MICHAEL LATCHAM

MARGARET J. KARTOMI: The Gamelan Digul and the Prison-Camp Musician who Built it: an Australian link with the Indonesian Revolution. :: NICK GRAY

JEREMY MONTAGU: Timpani & Percussion. :: CHRISTOPHER J. OVERTON

JEREMY MONTAGU: Reed Instruments. The Montagu Collection: An Annotated Catalogue. :: ALBERT R. RICE

ANNETTE OTTERSTEDT (transl. Hans Reiners): The Viol: History of an Instrument. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

STEWART POLLENS and HENRYK KASTON, with M.E.D. LAING: François-Xavier Tourte, Bow Maker. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

ARDAL POWELL: The Flute. :: EDWINA SMITH

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER LV [12 reviews of 12 titles] 2002, Reviews Editor: Margaret Birley

PAUL M. GIFFORD: A History of the Hammered Dulcimer. :: DARRYL MARTIN

BRIAN W. HARVEY and CARLA J. SHAPREAU: Violin Fraud: Deception, Forgery and Law Suits in England and America. :: DARRYL MARTIN

BRUCE HAYNES: The Eloquent Oboe: a History of the Hautboy from 1640 to 1760. :: SIMON MILTON

MONIKA LUSTIG and HOWARD WEINER (eds): Posaunen und Trompeten: Geschichte, Akustik, Spieltechnik. :: EDWARD H. TARR

MICHAEL PRAETORIUS: Syntagma Musicum. :: DARRYL MARTIN

DAVID RATTRAY: Masterpieces of Italian Violin Making (1620-1850). :: MICHAEL FLEMING

VALERIE WALDEN: One Hundred Years of Violoncello: A History of Technique and Performance Practice, 1740-1840. :: BRENDA NEECE

MICHIKO ISHIYAMA WOLCOTT: Piano, the Instrument - An annotated Bibliography. :: KENNETH MOBBS

ROBERT N. ROTH: Wond'rous Machine, A Literary Anthology Celebrating the Organ. :: CHARLES MOULD

ELIZABETH WELLS (Ed): Royal College of Music Museum of Instruments. Catalogue Part II. Keyboard Instruments. London: Royal College of Music, 2000. :: CHARLES MOULD

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER LIV [12 reviews of 12 titles] 2001, Reviews Editor: Andrew Pinnock

JEANNINE LAMBRECHTS-DOUILLEZ, (ed.): Hans Ruckers (d. 1598): Founder of a Harpsichord Workshop of Universal Importance in Antwerp :: HOWARD SCHOTT

KOEN VERMEIJ: The Hubert Clavichord Data Book. :: CHARLES MOULD

MARTHA NOVAK CLINKSCALE: Makers of the Piano, Volume 2: 1820-1860. :: KENNETH MOBBS

ALEC COBBE, Composer Instruments: a Catalogue of the Cobbe Collection of Keyboard Instruments with Composer Associations. :: CHARLES MOULD

PHILIP GURA & JAMES BOLLMAN: America's Instrument: the Banjo in the Nineteenth Century. :: DARRYL MARTIN

MICHAEL WRIGHT: Guitar Stories, Volume 2. :: DARRYL MARTIN

TONY BACON (ed.): Electric Guitars - The Illustrated Encyclopedia. :: DARRYL MARTIN

DARCY KURONEN, (ed.), Dangerous Curves: The Art of the Guitar, :: ERIC C. SHOAF

CLIFFORD BEVAN: The Tuba Family. :: ANDREW PINNOCK

WILFRIED SEIPEL (ed.): Für Aug' und Ohr: Musik in Kunst-und Wunderkammern. :: ELIZABETH KENNY

ANDREA BAYER (ed.): The Still Lifes of Evaristo Baschenis: The Music of Silence. :: ELIZABETH KENNY

COLIN LAWSON: The Early Clarinet: A Practical Guide. :: TOM DIBLEY

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER LIII [4 reviews of 4 titles] 2000, Reviews Editor: Andrew Pinnock

BERNARD BRAUCHLI: The Clavichord. :: HOWARD SCHOTT

PAUL CARROLL: Baroque Woodwind Instruments: a Guide to their Hitory, Repertoire and Basic Technique. :: ANDREW PINNOCK

JEREMY and GWEN MONTAGU: Minstrels and Angels: Carvings of Musicians in Medieval English Churches. :: ANDREW PINNOCK

CLIFFORD DAVIDSON (ed.): Material Culture and Medieval Drama. :: ANDREW PINNOCK

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER LII [22 reviews of 24 titles] 1999, Reviews Editor: Andrew Pinnock

JAMES BEAMENT: The Violin Explained. Components, Mechanism, and Sound. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

OLGA ADELMANN and ANNETTE OTTERSTEDT: Die Alemannische Schule; Geigenbau des 17. Jahrhunderts im südlichen Schwarzwald und in der Schweiz. :: IRIS MATTES

VICTOR ANAND COELHO (ed.): Performance of Lute, Guitar and Vihuela: Historical Practice and Modern interpretation. :: MATTHEW SPRING

ERIC DE DAMPIERRE (ed.): Une esthétique perdue: harpes et harpistes du Haut-Oubangui. :: JOS GANSEMANS

M. MINSSEN, G. KRIEGER, E. BÄUERLE, A. PILIPCZUK, J. HAGEN: Äolsharfen - Der Wind als Musikant. :: STEPHEN BONNER

TREVOR HERBERT and JOHN WALLACE (eds.): The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments. :: ROBERT E. ELIASON

PHILLIP T. YOUNG: Die Holzblasinstrumente im Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum. Linz: Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum. :: ARNOLD MYERS

HARRY WOODHOUSE: Face the Music, Church and Chapel Bands in Cornwall. :: GRAHAM WELLS

COLIN LAWSON: Brahms: Clarinet Quintet. :: TOM DIBLEY

GUSTAV FOCK: Hamburg's Role in Northern European Organ Building. :: PETER WARD JONES

CHRISTIAN AHRENS and GREGOR KLINKE (eds.): Das Harmonium in Deutschland: Bau, wirtschaftliche Bedeutung und musikalische Nutzung eines `historischen' Musikinstrumentes. :: JOHN KOSTER

ROBERT F. GELLERMAN: The American Reed Organ and the Harmonium. :: JOHN KOSTER

ROBERT F. GELLERMAN: Gellerman's International Reed Organ Atlas, 2nd edition. :: JOHN KOSTER

MICHAEL COLE: The Pianoforte in the Classical Era. :: KENNETH MOBBS

RICHARD MAUNDER: Keyboard Instruments in Eighteenth-Century Vienna. :: JOHN KOSTER

ANNE BOND: A Guide to the Harpsichord. :: CHARLES MOULD

De Clavicordio II. Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano, 21-23 September 1995 , and De Clavicordio III. Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano, 24 -28 September 1997. :: CHARLES MOULD

Clavichord International (ed. Koen Vermeij). :: CHARLES MOULD

METTE MÜLLER and LIBET TORP (eds.): Musikkens Tjenere - Instrument - Forsker - Musiker :: Servants of Music - Instrument - Scholar - Musician). :: GÖRAN GRAHN

V.A. SLOBODOV with Iu. E. BOIKO and V.F. PLATONOV: Materialy k entsiklopedii muzykal'nykh instrumentov narod mira, Vypusk 1. (Materials for the encyclopedia of the musical instruments of the peoples of the world, No. 1). :: RAZIA SULTANOVA

Musique, Images, Instruments: Aspects de la vie musicale au xviie siècle. :: CHARLES MOULD

CHRISTOPHER PAGE: Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages: Studies on Texts and Performance. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

ROBERT BARCLAY (ed.): The Care of Historic Musical Instruments. :: ANDREW LAMB

KEVIN McELHONE: Mechanical Music. :: RICHARD COLE

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER LI [20 reviews of 20 titles] 1998, Reviews Editor: Margaret Birley

ALLAN W. ATLAS: The Wheatstone English Concertina in Victorian England. :: STUART EYDMANN

STEPHEN BICKNELL: The History of the English Organ. :: CHARLES MOULD

ART BROWNLOW: The Last Trumpet: a History of the English Slide Trumpet. :: ARNOLD MYERS

ANDREW DIPPER: Musical Instruments of the Violin Family and their Geometry of Positioning and Cutting out their FF-Shaped Sound Holes. :: DAVID WOODROW

PETER DONHAUSER (ed.): Restaurieren Renovieren Rekonstruieren. Methoden für Hammerklaviere. Die Beiträge zum internationalen Symposium im Palais Rasumofsky in Wien vom 30. März bis 1. April 1995. :: MARTIN PÜHRINGER

LOTHAR VON FALKENHAUSEN: Suspended Music: Chime-bells in the culture of Bronze Age China. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

ANDREA GATTI (ed.): Musei e Gallerie di Milano. Museo degli Strumenti Musicali. :: JOHN HENRY VAN DER MEER

FLORENCE GÉTREAU: Aux origines de la Musée de la Musique. Les collections instrumentales du Conservatoire de Paris 1793-1993. :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL

SUMI GUNJI, NAKAMIZO KAZUE, MAYUMI OKADA and NAGASAWA TOMOYUHE (eds): The Collection of Musical Instruments. Volumes 1 and 2 :: FRANCES PALMER

CARLEEN MALEY HUTCHINS (ed.) and VIRGINIA BENADE (assoc. ed.): Research Papers in Violin Acoustics 1975-1993. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

DIETER KRICKEBERG (ed.): Der `schöne' Klang. Studien zum historischen Musikinstrumentenbau in Deutschland und Japan unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des alten Nürnberg. :: MARTIN ELSTE

DAVID LASOCKI (ed.): The Recorder in the Seventeenth Century. Proceedings of the International Recorder Symposium, Utrecht, 1993. :: FRIEDRICH VON HUENE

CATHERINE HOMO-LECHNER: Sons et instruments de musique au moyen âge. :: JOËL DUGOT

THOMAS LERCH: Vergleichende Untersuchung von Bohrungsprofilen Historischer Blockflöten des Barock (Comparative Examination of the Bore Profiles of Historical Baroque Recorders). :: FRIEDRICH VON HUENE

YEHUDI MENUHIN: Die Violine. :: MARCUS BENNETT

ANDREAS MICHEL: Zithern: Musikinstrumente zwischen Volkskultur und Bürgerlichkeit. :: DARRYL MARTIN

ARDAL POWELL (ed.): The Keyed Flute by Johann George Tromlitz. Oxford Early Music Series 17 :: JOHN B. DICK

NANCY TOFF: The Flute Book, A Complete Guide for Students and Performers. :: EDWINA SMITH

ROB VAN ACHT with JAN BOUTERSE and PIET DHONT: Dutch Double Reed Instruments of the 17th and 18th Centuries - Collection Haags Gemeentemuseum. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

ADAM WHONE: Edward Withers Ltd. 230 years of Violin Craft in Soho. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER L [36 reviews of 38 titles] 1997, Reviews Editor: Charles Mould

JEREMY MONTAGU: Musical Instruments of the Bible. :: NORMAN SOLOMON

ANDREW ASHBEE: Records of English Court Music. Volume VIII (1485-1714) :: TREVOR HERBERT

ANDREW ASHBEE: Records of English Court Music. Volume IX (INDEX) :: TREVOR HERBERT

STANISLAV TUKSAR: Hravtska glazbena terminologija u razdoblju baroka: Nazivlje glazbala i instrumentalne glazbe u tiskanim rježnicima izmedu 1649. i 1742. godine. (Croatian music terminology in the Baroque period: Terms for instruments and instrumental music in dictionaries published between 1649 and 1742) :: ZDRAVKO BLAZEKOVIC

GILLIAN SHELDRICK (ed.): The Accounts of Thomas Green, Music Teacher and Tuner of Musical Instruments, 1742-1790. :: DAVID WAINWRIGHT

ZDRAVKO BLAZEKOVIC (ed.): RIdIM/RCMI (Repertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale / Research Center for Musical Iconography) Newsletter, Vols 19 & 20 :: ARNOLD MYERS

Musique, Images, Instruments: Innovations et traditions dans la vie musicale française au XIXe siècle. :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL

MERVYN McLEAN: Diffusion of Musical Instruments and their Relation to Language Migrations in New Guinea. Kulele: Occasional Papers on Pacific Music and Dance, 1 :: JEREMY MONTAGU

RICHARD MOYLE: Polynesian Sound-producing Instruments. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

ERNST EMSHEIMER: Studia Ethnomusicologica Eurasiatica II :: JEREMY MONTAGU

J. LAWRENCE WITZLEBEN: "Silk and Bamboo" Music in Shanghai. The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition. :: HWEE-SAN TAN

CHARLES BEARE: Antonio Stradivari. The Cremona Exhibition of 1987. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

MARCO TIELLA, LUCA PRIMON: Catologo degli Strumenti dell'Istitutio della Pietà. Venezia. :: MARCUS BENNETT

ANTONIO BAGATELLA: Règles pour la construction des Violons Altis, Violoncelles et Basses de Viol. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

KLAUS MARTIUS: Leopold Widhalm und der Nürnberger Lauten- und Geigenbau im 18. Jahrhundert. :: JOHN HENRY VAN DER MEER

CARLO VETTORI: Arte Liutaria, Analysis of Antique Instruments and Restoration Techniques. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

ERIC BLOT: Un secolo di liuteria Italiana 1860-1960. Vol.1. Emilia Romagna. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

JOHN HUBER: Der Geigenmarkt, The Violin Market - the Violinists Guide to Violin Purchase :: MARCUS BENNETT

CLAUDIO AMIGHETTI: Illustrated Yearbook of String Instruments, 1993. :: MARCUS BENNETT

RENATO MEUCCI (ed.): Liuteria Musica e Cultura, 1996. Essays dedicated to John Henry van der Meer :: MICHAEL FLEMING

HENRY A. STROBEL: Cello making step by step, with comments on Violin making step by step, 2nd edn :: SAM CRAIG

RICARDO EICHMANN: Koptischen Lauten: ein musikarchäologische Untersuchung von sieben Langhalslauten des 3. - 9. Jh. n. Chr. aus Ägypten. :: ELLEN HICKMAN

LYLE NORDSTROM: The Bandora: its Music and Sources. :: MARY CRISWICK

COLIN LAWSON: The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet. :: ALBERT R. RICE

COLIN LAWSON: Mozart: Clarinet Concerto :: ALBERT R. RICE

JOHN MANSFIELD THOMSON with ANTHONY ROWLAND-JONES (eds.): The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder. :: EDGAR HUNT

DAVID LASOCKI with ROGER PRIOR: The Bassanos: Venetian Musicians and Instrument Makers in England, 1531-1885. :: EDGAR HUNT

MARTIN VOGEL: Das Problem der Ventilkombinationen bei Blechblasinstrumenten. :: ARNOLD MYERS

NELLY VAN REE BERNARD: The Keyed Monochord: Rediscovery of a Forgotten Instrument. :: LANCE WHITEHEAD

CHRISTINE SCHORNSHEIM, WALTER HEINZ BERNSTEIN, WINFRIED SCHRAMMEK, ROLAND GÖTZ, ARMIN THALHEIM: Historische Tasteninstrumente aus dem Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Universität Leipzig. Performances on historic keyboard instruments in the Musical Instrument Museum of the University of Leipzig :: KENNETH MOBBS

DAVID CROMBIE: Piano. :: DAVID WAINWRIGHT

INGEBERT BLÜTHNER-HAESSLER: Pianofortebau. Elementar und umfassend dargestellt von einem Klavierbauer :: ANDREAS ROTH

MARTIN RENSHAW and ALAN BARNES: The Life and Work of John Snetzler. :: CHARLES MOULD

PETER ANDREAS KJELDSBERG: Barokkorgelet i Nidarsdomen, bygget av Joachim Wagner 1739-41, Restaurert av Jürgen Ahrend 1993-94 :: KEANE RIDLEY

RONALD G. NEWTON: Organa Cantuariensia: Organs in Canterbury, New Zealand, 1850-1885 :: PETER WARD JONES

DAVID H. FOX: Robert Hope-Jones. :: PETER WARD JONES

HELMUT KOWAR: Mechanische Musik - Eine Bibliographie :: CHARLES MOULD

LEONARD FOX (ed.): The Jew's Harp. :: HÉLÈNE LA RUE

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER XLIX [28 reviews of 32 titles] 1996, Reviews Editor: Arnold Myers

SUE CAROLE DEVALE, ed.: Issues in Organology. Los Angeles: University of California, 1990. 297pp ISBN 0 88287 024 6. (Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, VIII). Price: $30.00. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

MARGARET J. KARTOMI: On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments. Chicago, London: Chicago University Press, 1990. xix, 329pp. ISBN 0 226 42548 7. Price: pounds sterling 39.95 (hardback); ISBN 0 226 42549 5. Price: pounds sterling 17.50 (paperback). :: JEREMY MONTAGU

TELLEF KVIFTE: Instruments and the Electronic Age: Towards a Terminology for a Unified Description of Playing Technique. Norway: Solum Forlag, 1989. V, 198pp. ISBN 82 560 0625 0. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

GRAHAM STRAHLE: An Early Music Dictionary: Musical Terms from British Sources 1500-1740. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xl, 469pp. ISBN 0 521 41688 4. Price: pounds sterling 60.00 :: CHRISTOPHER FIELD

KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN: Klangführer durch die Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente. 2 audio compact discs with illustrated booklet 154pp. Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1993. CD 516 537 2 (Text in German, Italian, English and Japanese.) :: ARNOLD MYERS

ÅKE NORBORG: The Musical Instruments of the Edo-speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria. Stockholm: Musikmuseet, 1992. x, 219pp. [Text in English.] :: HÉLÈNE LA RUE

ÅKE NORBORG: A Handbook of Musical and other Sound-Producing Instruments from Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Stockholm: Musikmuseet, 1989. xix, 469pp. [Text in English.] :: HÉLÈNE LA RUE

ÉRIC De DAMPIERRE: Harpes Zandé. Paris: Klincksieck, 1991. 165pp. ISBN 2 252 02823 8. [Text in French.] :: JOS GANSEMANS

PAUL SPARKS: The Classical Mandolin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. xiv, 225pp. ISBN 0 19 816295 2. :: Early Music Series). :: JOSEPH R. JOHNSON

NORMAN C. PICKERING: The Bowed String: Observations on the Design, Manufacture, Testing, and Performance of Strings for Violins, Violas and Cellos. Mattituck, New York: Amereon, 1991. iv, 132pp. :: MURRAY CAMPBELL

ROBIN STOWELL, ed.: The Cambridge Companion to the Violin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xvi, 303pp ISBN 0 521 39033 8 (hardback) 0 521 39923 8 (paperback). Prices: pounds sterling 40.00, pounds sterling 16.00. :: MARCUS BENNETT

DAVID RATTRAY: Masterpieces of Italian Violin Making 1620-1850: twenty-six important stringed instruments from the Collection at the Royal Academy of Music. London: Royal Academy of Music, 1991. 72pp ISBN 0 9517271 0 9. Price: pounds sterling 35.00. :: MARCUS BENNETT

SILVETTE MILLIOT: La Famille Chanot-Chardon. Spa: Les Amis de la Musique, 1994. 254pp. (Les Luthiers Parisiens aux XIXe et XXe siècle = Parisian Violin Makers in the XIXth and XXth centuries, Volume 1). [Text in French with English summary.] :: BRUNO GUASTALLA

BRIAN W. HARVEY: Violin Family and its Makers in the British Isles: an Illustrated History and Directory. Oxford: OUP, 1995. xv, 432pp. ISBN 0 19 816259 6. Price: pounds sterling 85.00. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

HENRY A. STROBEL: Violin Making Step by Step. Aumsville: Henry A. Strobel, 1994. ISBN 0 9620673 6 9 Price: $29.50. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

RICHARD GRISCOM and David Lasocki: The Recorder: a Guide to Writings about the Instrument for Players and Researchers. New York, London: Garland, 1994. xxi, 504pp ISBN 0 8240 2945 3. (Music Research and Information Guides, Vol. 19.). Price: US$70.00. :: EDGAR HUNT

JOHN MARTIN: The Acoustics of the Recorder. Celle: Moeck, 1994. X, 112pp. ISBN 3 87549 061 4. :: RAYMOND PARKS

JOHANN GEORGE TROMLITZ: The Virtuoso Flute-Player translated and edited by Ardal Powell Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxvi, 338pp. ISBN 0 521 39067 2 (hardback), 0 521 39977 7 (paperback). Prices: pounds sterling 42.50, pounds sterling 17.95 respectively. :: ROBERT BIGIO

KARL LENSKI and KARL VENTZKE: Das goldene Zeitalter der Flöte: die Boehmflöte in Frankreich 1832-1932: Durchsetzung, Gestaltung, Wirkung. Celle: Moeck, 1992. 268pp ISBN 3 87549 040 1 [Text in German]. :: ROBERT BIGIO

TULA GIANNINI: Great Flute Makers of France: The Lot and Godfroy Families 1650-1900. London: Tony Bingham, 1993. xxvi, 245pp ISBN 0 946113 05 X. Price: pounds sterling 44.00 [available by post from the publisher] :: ROBERT BIGIO

DAVID HOGAN SMITH: Trombone technique in the Renaissance San Francisco: The King's Trumpetts and Shalmes Music Editions, 1989. 40pp Price: $15.00. :: ARNOLD MYERS

WERNER FLACHS: Das Jagdhorn: seine Geschichte von der Steinzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Zug: Kalt-Zehnder, 1994. 208pp ISBN 3 85761 254 1. Price: pounds sterling 55.00. :: DAVID RYCROFT

RALPH T. DUDGEON: The Keyed Bugle. Metuchen, New Jersey and London: Scarecrow Press, 1993. xiv, 268pp ISBN 0 8108 2645 3. Price: pounds sterling 27.65. :: ARNOLD MYERS

BERNARD BRAUCHLI, SUSAN BRAUCHLI and ALBERTO GALAZZO, (eds.): De Clavicordo: Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium = Atti del Congresso Internazionale sul Clavicordo Magnano, 9-11 Settembre 1993. Torino: Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte, 1994. 287pp. Price: LIt 40 000. :: DARRYL MARTIN

The Harpsichord and its Repertoire: proceedings of the international harpsichord symposium; Utrecht, 1990. Edited by Pieter Dirksen Utrecht: STIMU, 1992. IX, 275pp ISBN 90 72786 03 3. Price: Dfl 47.50. :: DARRYL MARTIN

STEWART POLLENS: The Early Piano. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 284pp. ISBN 0 521 41729 5. Price: pounds sterling 50.00. :: JOHN BARNES

KATALIN KOMLÓS: Fortepianos and their Music: Germany, Austria and England, 1760-1800. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. xiii, 158pp ISBN 0 19 816426 2. Price: pounds sterling 27.50. :: KENNETH MOBBS

PASCALE VANDERVELLEN: Le Piano de style en Europe des origines à 1850. Liège: Mardaga, 1994. 166pp ISBN 2 87009 570 8 [Text in French.] :: KENNETH MOBBS

BENJAMIN VOGEL: Polskie Fortepiany XIX-XX W. Kolekcja = Polish Pianos: 19th - 20th Century Collection Opatówek: Museum of Industry History, 1994. 108pp. [Text in Polish and English.] :: KENNETH MOBBS

BENJAMIN VOGEL: Kolekcja Zabytkowych Fortepianów Filharminii Pomorskiel = Old Pianos Collection of the Pomeranian Philharmonic Warsaw: Historical Monuments Documentation Centre, 1987. 112pp. [Text in Polish and English.] :: KENNETH MOBBS

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER XLVIII [27 reviews of 30 titles] 1995, Reviews Editor: Arnold Myers

MARTIN AGRICOLA: Musica instrumentalis deudsch: a treatise on musical instruments (1529 and 1545) translated and edited by William E. Hettrick Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xx, 194pp ISBN 0 521 36640 2. Price: pounds sterling 50.00. :: EDGAR HUNT

SEBASTIAN VIRDUNG: Musica getutscht: a treatise on musical instruments (1511) edited and translated by Beth Bullard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. vii, 275pp ISBN 0 521 30830 5. Price: pounds sterling 45.00. :: EDGAR HUNT

STANLEY SADIE, ed.: The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984. 3 volumes ISBN 0 333 37878 4. Price: pounds sterling 350.00. :: D. MURRAY CAMPBELL

FLORENCE GÉTREAU, ed.: La Recherche en Organologie: les instruments de musique occidentaux 1960-1992. Paris: Société Français de Musicologie, 1993. (Extrait de le Revue de Musicologie 79 pp.319-376.) Offprint available from SEDIM, 151-153 avenue Jean Jaur_s, F-75019 Paris, France;. Price: FF30. :: ARNOLD MYERS

ROBERTO REGAZZI: The Complete Luthier's Library [Bibliography]. Bologna: Florenus Edizioni, 1990. xix, 556pp ISBN 88 85250 01 7. Price: LIt.50,000. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

ARNOLD MYERS, ed.: Historic Musical Instruments in the Edinburgh University Collection: Catalogue ..., Volume 1: The Illustrations. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1990. 168pp. ISBN 0 907635 17 2. Price: pounds sterling 25.00.
ARNOLD MYERS, ed.: Historic Musical Instruments in the Edinburgh University Collection: Catalogue ..., Volume 2: The Descriptions. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1992 - 8 fascicles published to 1994. :: PETER ANDREAS KJELDSBERG

PAULINE RUSHTON, ed.: Catalogue of European Musical Instruments in Liverpool Museum. Liverpool: National Museums &Galleries on Merseyside, 1994. x, 182pp. ISBN 906367 68 9. . Price: pounds sterling 15.00. :: DARRYL MARTIN and ARNOLD MYERS

Records of English Court Music Volume VII (1485-1558). Calendared and edited by Andrew Ashbee Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1993. xxiv, 467pp ISBN 0 85967 860 1. Price: pounds sterling 35.00. :: TREVOR HERBERT

RAINER WEBER: Zur Restaurierung von Holzblasinstrumente aus der Sammlung von Dr. Josef Zimmermann im Bonner Beethoven-Haus: Restaurierungsberichte mit Angaben zu Arbeitstechniken. Celle: Moeck, 1993. 200pp. ISBN 3 87549 059 2. Price: DM 80.00. :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE

MALOU HAINE: Les Facteurs d'instruments de musique à Paris au 19e siècle: des artisans face à l'industrialisation. Bruxelles: Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 1985. 472pp ISBN 2 8004 0864 2. :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE

FLORENCE GETREAU et al.: Instrumentistes et Luthiers Parisiens XVIIe - XIXe siecles. Delegation a l'Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris, 1988. 254pp. ISBN 2 905118 01 6. :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE

KARL-HEINZ BLEI and CLAUS BAUMANN: Klingende Taler, Musikinstrumentenbau zwischen Klingenthal und Markneukirchen. Leipzig: VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1987. 220pp. ISBN 3 370 00157 8. Price: DM 54.00 [Text in German.] :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE

INGEBØRG BARTH MAGNUS and BIRGIT KJELLSTRÖM: Musikmotiv i Svensk Kyrkokonst: Uppland fram till 1625 = Musical Motifs in Swedish Church Art: the Region of Uppland up to 1625. Stockholm: The Swedish RIdIM Committee, 1993. 408pp. [Text in Swedish with parallel translation into English by Michael Stevens] ISBN 91 972117 0 2. Price: SEK 298.00. :: RAYMOND PARKS

PETER HOLMAN: Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court 1540-1690. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. xxvii, 491pp. ISBN 0 19 816145 X. Price: pounds sterling 48.00. :: CHRISTOPHER FIELD

MAURICE W. RILEY: The History of the Viola. Ann Arbor: the author, 1993, 1991. 2 volumes, xxiii, 396, xxv, 454pp. ISBN 0 9603150 4 7. Price: $59.00. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

HENRY A. STROBEL: Useful Measurements for Violin Makers, a Reference for Shop Use, 4th edition Aumsville, Oregon: H.A. Strobel, 1991. 46pp. ISBN 0 9620673 2 6. Price: $12.50.
HENRY A. STROBEL: Violin Maker's Notebook: a Companion Volume to Useful Measurements for Violin Makers, a Reference for Shop Use, 2nd edition Aumsville, Oregon: H.A. Strobel, 1991. 66pp. ISBN 0 9620673 3 4. Price: $19.50.
LUCIEN GREILSAMER: The Health of the Violin and the Viola and Cello: Practical Advice on the Acquisition, Maintenance, Adjustment and Conservation of Bowed Instruments translated from the original French by Henry A. Strobel Aumsville, Oregon: H.A. Strobel, 1991. 34pp. ISBN 0 9620673 4 2. Price: $9.50.
HENRY A. STROBEL: Art and Method of the Violin Maker: Principles and Practice, 2nd edition. Aumsville: Henry A. Strobel, 1993. 78pp. ISBN 0 9620673 5 0. Price: $19.50. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

CECIL ADKINS and ALIS DICKINSON: The Trumpet Marine: a Trumpet by any other Name. Buren: Knuf, 1991. 2 volumes; 612pp. ISBN 90 6027 458 X (hardback), 90 6027 459 8 (paperback). Prices DFl 70.00 and DFl 45.00 respectively. :: MARY REMNANT

JAN LING, GUNNAR AHLBÄCK and GUNNAR FREDELIUS: Nyckelharpan nu och då = The Nyckelharpa Present and Past. Stockholm: Musikmuseet, 1991. 45pp., 85pp., audiocassette. ISBN 91 87590 04 2. Price: SEK 90.00 [Text in both Swedish and English.] :: RAYMOND PARKS

GEORGE GRUHN and WALTER CARTER: Acoustic Guitars and other Fretted Instruments: a Photographic History. San Francisco: Miller Freeman, 1993. 313pp. ISBN 0 87930 240 2. Price: $50.00. :: DARRYL MARTIN

PHILLIP T. YOUNG: 4900 Historical Woodwind Instruments. London: Tony Bingham, 1993. 258pp. ISBN 0 946113 03 3. Price: pounds sterling 40.00. :: AL RICE

GERHARD STRADNER: Die Blasinstrumente in einem Inventar der Wiener Hofkapelle von 1706 In: Studien zur Musikwissenschaft Band 38, unter Leitung von Othmar Wessely Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1987. 265pp. ISBN 3 7952 0555 7. Price: DM 106.00 (Text in German). :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE

TREVOR WYE: Marcel Moyse: an extraordinary man: a musical biography Iowa: Winzer Press, 1993. xviii, 134pp. :: ROBERT BIGIO

ROBERT BARCLAY: The Art of the Trumpet Maker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. xi, 186pp. ISBN 0 19 816223 5. Price: pounds sterling 35.00. :: GEERT JAN VAN DER HEIDE

GÜNTER DULLAT: Metallblasinstrumentenbau: Entwicklungsstufen und Technologie. Frankfurt-am-Main: Bochinsky, 1989. 377pp. ISBN 3 923639 79 1 (Fachbuchreihe das Musikinstrument Band 48). Price: DM193.00 [Text in German.] :: EDWARD H. TARR

KONSTANTIN RESTLE: Bartolomeo Cristofori und die Anfänge des Hammerclaviers: Quellen, Dokumente und Instrumente des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. München: Maris, 1991. xx, 448pp. (Münchener Arbeiten zur Musiktheorie und Instrumentenkunde, 1) ISBN 3 95280 107 3. Price: DM 98.00. :: ANDREAS BEURMANN

ROBERT PALMIERI and MARGARET W. PALMIERI, (eds.): The Piano. New York: Garland, 1994. xiv, 521pp. (Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments, Vol. 1) ISBN 0 8240 5685 X. Price: $95.00. :: JOHN BARNES

JEANNINE LAMBRECHTS-DOUILLEZ and M.-J. BOSSCHAERTS-EYKENS: Orgel-bouwers te Antwerpen in de 16de eeuw. Antwerp: Ruckers Genootschap, 1987. 63pp. (Mededelingen van de Ruckers-Genootschap, 6) Text in Flemish with slightly-abridged English translations. :: GRANT O'BRIEN

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER XLVII [22 reviews of 22 books] 1994, Reviews Editor: Arnold Myers

MARGARET CAMPBELL: Henry Purcell: Glory of his Age. London: Hutchinson, 1993. 292pp. ISBN 0 09 174272. . Price: pounds sterling 20.00. :: PHILIP BATE

ANTHONY C. BAINES: The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. xii, 404pp. ISBN 0 19 311334 1. Price: pounds sterling 25.00. :: RAYMOND PARKS

La Collezione di Strumenti Musicali del Museo Teatrale alla Scala: studio, restauro e restituzione. Il Laboratorio, Musica ed Antichi Strumenti Milan: Centro Europeo del Restauro, 1992. 159pp. Price: LIt 80,000. :: JOHN HENRY VAN DER MEER

JOAQUIM HORTA, ed.: Museu de la Música 1 / Cataleg d'instruments. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, 1991. 667pp. ISBN 84 7609 455 8. :: JOHN HENRY VAN DER MEER

PAOLA ELISABETTA SIMEONI and ROBERTA TUCCI: La Collezione degli Strumenti Musicali: Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari, Roma. Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca della Stato, 1991. 502pp, with audio disc (Cataloghi dei Musei e Gallerie d'Italia, Nuova Serie n. 4) ISBN 88 240 0125 4. Price: L.120.000. :: HÉLÈNE LA RUE

SERGIO CINGOLANI: Acustica degli Strumenti Musicali: Bibliografia 1840-1990 = Acoustic of the Musical Instruments: Bibliography 1840-1990. Cremona: Turris, 1992. XXXV, 327pp. ISBN 88 7929 089 4 (Collana di Liuteria e Cultura Musicale, 3.) :: RAYMOND PARKS

DAN E. MAYERS, (ed.): The Annals of the International Shakuhachi Society, Vol. 1. Wadhurst, Sussex: the Society, 1991. 195pp. Price: pounds sterling 35.00. :: DAVID W. HUGHES

MARTHA MAAS and JANE McINTOSH SNYDER: Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece. New Haven: Yale, 1989. 288pp. ISBN 0 300 03686 8. Price: US$ 45.00 :: ELLEN HICKMANN

MANUEL CANO: La Guitarra. Historia, estudios y aportaciones al arte flamenco. Córdoba: Universidad de Córdoba, 1986. 296pp., 8pp; 2 music cassettes. (Text in Spanish). :: GABRIEL PETRIC

PAUL WILLIAM SCHMIDT: Acquired of the Angels: the Lives and Works of Master Guitar Makers John D'Angelico and James D'Aquisto. Metuchen, N.J. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1991. vi, 103pp. ISBN 9 8108 2346 2. Price: pounds sterling 22.15. :: DARRYL MARTIN

KEITH SANGER and ALISON KINNAIRD: Tree of Strings (Crann nan Teud): a History of the Harp in Scotland. Temple: Kinmor Music, 1992. 247pp. ISBN 0 9511204 4 1. Price: pounds sterling 15.00. :: HUGH CHEAPE

JOHN M. SCHECHTER: The Indispensable Harp: Historical Development, Modern Roles, Configurations, and Performance Practices in Ecuador and Latin America. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1992. viii, 288pp. ISBN 0 87338 439 3. Price $32.00. :: JOHN RIEDEL

Count IGNAZIO COZIO di SALABUE: Observations on the construction of stringed instruments and their adjustment, 1804, 1805, 1809, 1810, 1816. Translated from the original Italian by Andrew Dipper and David Woodrow Taynton, 1987. 85pp. ISBN 0 870952 00 6. Price: pounds sterling 27.00.
Abbé SÉBASTIEN-ANDRÉ SIBIRE: La Chélonomie, ou le parfait luthier..., Paris, 1812. Reimpression de l'edition de Bruxelles, 1823. Facsimile edition. Geneva: Minkoff, 1984. ISBN 2 8266 0819 3. [Text in French.] :: MICHAEL FLEMING

STEWART POLLENS: The Violin Forms of Antonio Stradivari. London: Peter Biddulph, 1992. 44.5 x 35cms, 34pp, 40 plates ISBN 0 9520109 0 9. Price: pounds sterling 150.00.
DAVID WOODROW: The Shape of Stradivari Forms and Violins. Taynton: Taynton Press, 1991. 84pp. ISBN 1 870952 01 4. Price: pounds sterling 22.00. :: MICHAEL FLEMING

ALBERT JACQUOT: La Lutherie Lorraine et Française depuis ses Origines jusqu'à nos Jours. Paris: Fischbacher, 1912. Facsimile edition. Geneva: Minkoff, 1985. XXIX, 357pp. ISBN 2 8266 0524 0 [Text in French.] :: MICHAEL FLEMING

BRIAN W. HARVEY: Violin Fraud: Deception, Forgery, Theft and the Law. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. ix, 126pp. ISBN 0 19 816308 8. Price: pounds sterling 19.95. :: DARRYL MARTIN

WILLIAM WATERHOUSE: The New Langwill Index: a Dictionary of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers and Inventors. London: Tony Bingham, 1993. xxxvii, 518pp. ISBN 0 9346113 04 1. Price: pounds sterling 64.00. :: ARNOLD MYERS

JOHN SOLUM: The Early Flute. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. xiii, 164pp. ISBN 0 19 816253 7. Price: pounds sterling 30.00. :: JOHN DICK

MARION FRANCES WHITTOW: The Oboe: a Reed Blown in the Wind. London: Puffit Publications, 1991. 240pp. ISBN 0 9518072 0 X. Price: pounds sterling 11.95. :: SIMON MILTON

CLEMENS VON GLEICH: Checklist of Harpsichords, Clavichords, Organs, Harmoniums. The Hague: Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1989. 102pp. (Checklists of the Musical Instrument Collection of the Haags Gemeentemuseum, 3) ISBN 90 6730 068 3. :: DARRYL MARTIN

G. GRANT O'BRIEN: Ruckers: a Harpsichord and Virginal Building Tradition. Cambridge: CUP, 1990. 360pp. ISBN 0 521 36565 1. Price: pounds sterling 75.00. :: MIMI S. WAIZMAN

HOWARD SCHOTT, ed. The Historical Harpsichord, Volume III. Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 1992. vii, 161pp; 12 fiches ISBN 0 945193 26 2. Price: $48.00. :: JOHN BARNES

MARTHA NOVAK CLINKSCALE: Makers of the Piano 1700-1820. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. xv, 403pp. ISBN 0 19 816323 1. Price: pounds sterling 45.00. :: KENNETH MOBBS

FRANÇOIS BOREL: Collections d'instruments de musique: les sanza: catalogue Neuchâtel: Musée d'Ethnographie, 1986. 181pp. ISBN 2 88078 008 X. Price: 20FF (Collections du Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel, 3). :: ANDREW TRACEY

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER XLVI [25 reviews of 34 books] 1993, Reviews Editor: Arnold Myers

CARY KARP: Conservation and Technology of Musical Instruments. Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, 1991. (Supplement to Vol 28 of Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts) xiii, 237pp. ISBN 0 89236 209 X. Price: $40.00. :: ARNOLD MYERS

Second Conference of the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology; Stockholm, 19-23 November 1984. Volume 1, General Studies. Edited by Casja S. Lund Stockholm: Royal Swedish Academy of Music, 1986. 242pp. ISBN 91 85428 48 5. Price $28.00. (Publication No. 53)
Second Conference of the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology; Stockholm, 19-23 November 1984. Volume 2, The Bronze Lurs. Edited by Casja S. Lund Stockholm: Royal Swedish Academy of Music, 1986. 253pp. ISBN 91 85428 48 5. Price $28.00. (Publication No. 53)
The Archaeology of Early Music Cultures: 3rd International Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology. Edited by Ellen Hickmann and David W. Hughes Bonn: Verlag für Systematische Musikwissenschaft, 1988. xii, 353pp. (Orpheus-Schriftenreihe zu Grudfragen der Musik, 51) ISBN 3 922626 51 3. Price: DM88.00. :: FRANCES PALMER

Records of English Court Music Volume III (1625-1649). Calendared and edited by Andrew Ashbee Snodland, Kent: Andrew Ashbee, 1988. xvii, 285pp. ISBN 0 9507207 4 7. Price: pounds sterling 14.50.
Records of English Court Music Volume IV (1603-1625). Calendared and edited by Andrew Ashbee Snodland, Kent: Andrew Ashbee, 1991. xix, 258pp. ISBN 0 9507207 5 5. Price: pounds sterling 14.50.
Records of English Court Music Volume V (1625-1714). Calendared and edited by Andrew Ashbee Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1991. xxi, 333pp. ISBN 0 85967 858 X. Price: pounds sterling 27.50. :: TREVOR HERBERT

KEITH HOWARD: Korean musical instruments: a practical guide. Seoul: Se Kwang Music Publishing, 1988. 288pp. Price: 15,000 WON. :: MARGARET BIRLEY

MARK LINDLEY: Lutes, Viols and Temperaments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. 134pp. ISBN 0 521 24670 9 (hardback) 0 521 28883 5 (paperback) Accompanying cassette, 1985. ISBN 0 521 26297 6. Prices pounds sterling 17.50, pounds sterling 7.95 and pounds sterling 5.50 respectively. :: CARY KARP

PETER PÄFFGEN: Die Gitarre: Grundzüge ihrer Entwicklung. Mainz: Schott, 1988. 226pp. ISBN 3 7957 2355 8. Price: DM 38.00. [Text in German.]
ALEXANDER SCHMITZ: Die Gitarre. Hamburg: Ellert &Richter, 1988. 240pp. ISBN 3 89234 078 1. Price: DM68.00. [Text in German.] :: MARY CRISWICK

WERNER SCHWARZ: Guitar bibliography = Gitarre-Bibliographie. München, London: K.G. Saur, 1984. XXXII, 257pp. :: MARY CRISWICK

STEWART BUTTON: The Guitar in England 1800-1924. New York, London: Garland, 1989. vii, 334pp. ISBN 0 8240 0189 3. Price: $89.00. :: MARY CRISWICK

WILLIBALD LEO FR. VON LÜTTGENDORF: Die Geigen und Lauten- macher bis zür Gegenwart. Erganzungsband erstellt von Thomas Drescher Tutzing: Schneider, 1990. xxxi, 948pp. ISBN 3 7952 0616 2. Price: DM 440.00 [Text in German.] :: MARCUS BENNETT

ANDREA MOSCONI and CARLO TORRESANI: Il Museo Stradivariano di Cremona. Milan: Electa, 1987. 129pp. ISBN 88 435 2322 8. [Text in Italian] :: MARCUS BENNETT

RAMÓN PINTO COMAS: Los Luthiers Espanoles. Barcelona: Ramón Pinto Comas, 1988. 352pp. [Text in Spanish, English and French.] :: MARCUS BENNETT

DAVID DALTON: Playing the viola: conversations with William Primrose. Oxford: O.U.P., 1988. xii, 244pp. ISBN 0 19 318514 8. Price: pounds sterling 25.00. :: CHRISTOPHER D.S. FIELD

ROB VAN ACHT, VINCENT VAN DEN ENDE and HANS SCHIMMEL: Dutch Recorders of the 18th Century: Collection Haags Gemeentemuseum. Celle: Moeck, 1991. 163pp. ISBN 3 87549 038 X [Text in German and English.] :: RIEDRICH VON HUENE

PIERRE-YVES ARTRAUD: La Flûte. Paris: J.-C. Lattès / Salabert, 1986. 95pp. Price: FF98 [Text in French.] :: SUSAN BERDAHL

PETER SPOHR: Kunsthandwerk im Dienste der Musik: Querflöten aus aller Welt im Wandel der Zeit: Transverse Flutes down the Centuries from all over the World [exhibition catalogue]. Frankfurt-am-Main: the author, 1991. 91pp. [Text in German, French and English.] :: EDWINA SMITH

BERNHARD SCHULTZE: Querflöten de Renaissance und des Barock, Band 1: Eine historisierende, literarische Anthologie. München: the author, 1989. 667pp. ISBN 3 9800696 1 3. Price: DM 140.00. :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL

PHILLIP T. YOUNG: Loan exhibition of historic double reed instruments. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria, 1988. xi, 77pp. ISBN 0 921408 01 3. :: CARY KARP

ALBERT RICE: The Baroque Clarinet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. xx, 197pp. ISBN 0 19 816188 3. Price: pounds sterling 40.00. :: N.J. SHACKLETON

BJØRN AKSDAL: Meråker Klarinetten. Trondheim: Ringve Museum, 1992. 33pp. ISBN 82 990305 6 0. Price: (Ringve Museums Skrifter Nr. 5). :: RAYMOND PARKS

SIGFRIDO LESCHIUTTA: Cembalo, Spinetta e Virginale. Ancona: Edizioni Berben, 1983. 145pp. [Text in Italian.] :: G.GRANT O'BRIEN

KIMBERLEY MARSHALL: Iconographical evidence for the late-Medieval Organ in French, Flemish and English Manuscripts. New York, London: Garland, 1989. 2 volumes. ISBN 0 8240 2047 2. Price: $118.00. :: HÉLÈNE LA RUE

NICHOLAS THISTLETHWAITE: The Making of the Victorian Organ. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xxiv, 584pp. ISBN 0 521 34345 3. Price: pounds sterling 50.00 (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs.) :: E.A. KEANE RIDLEY

DAVID BAKER: The Organ. Princes Risborough: Shire, 1991. 96pp. ISBN 0 7478 01312. . Price: pounds sterling 3.95. THOMAS DONAHUE: The Modern Classical Organ: a Guide to its Physical and Musical Structure and Performance Implications. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland, 1991. xx, 187pp. ISBN 0 89950 588 0. Price: $29.95. :: E.A. KEANE RIDLEY

JEANNINE LAMBRECHTS-DOUILLEZ: Orgels in Antwerpse Kerken: St Jacobs, Carolus Borromaeus, St Paulus. Antwerp: Ruckers Genootschap, 1991. 72pp. [Text in Flemish.] (Medelingen van het Ruckers-Genootschap 7.)
EGON KRAUSS: Die Ebert-Orgel in der Hofkirche zu Innsbruck (1558) Ihre Geschichte und Wiederherstellung. Innsbruck: Helbling, 1989. 80pp. (Musikwissenschaftliche Beiträge der Schlagler Musikseminare, 2) ISBN 3 900590 11 7. Price: DM28.00 [Text in German.]
FRANK-HARALD GRESS: Die Klanggestaltung der Orgeln Gottfried Silbermanns. Frankfurt-am-Main: Bochinsky, 1989. 176pp. ISBN 3 923639 78 3. Price: DM 68.00 [Text in German.] :: E.A. KEANE RIDLEY

ROBERT F. GELLERMAN: Gellerman's international reed organ atlas: some accounts of the various manufacturers ... New York: Vestal Press, 1985. vii, 170pp. ISBN 0 911572 45 7. Price: $9.95.
JAN GROSSBACH: Das Harmonium. Frankfurt-am-Main: Bochinsky, 1991. 167pp. ISBN 3 923639 89 9. Price: DM 73.00 [Text in German.] :: E.A. KEANE RIDLEY

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER XLV [32 reviews of 34 books] 1992, Reviews Editor: Arnold Myers

LAURENCE LIBIN: American Musical Instruments in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, London: W.W. Norton, 1985. 224pp. ISBN 0 393 02277 3. Price: $14.95. :: ARNOLD MYERS

WALTER HAMMA: Geigenbauer der deutschen Schule des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1986. 2 vols.: 519pp, 591pp. Price: DM880.00 [Text in German.] :: MARCUS BENNETT

FRIEDRICH OBERKOGLER: Vom Wesen und Werden der Musikinstrumente, 2nd ed. Schaffhausen: Novalis Verlag, 1985. 175pp. Price SFr52.00. [Text in German.] :: MARTIN ELSTE

JOHN M. WARD: Sprightly and cheerful musick: notes on the cittern, gittern and guitar in 17th century England. London: The Lute Society, 1983. 234pp. (Lute Society Journal, 21). Price: pounds sterling 13.50. :: ANNE MACAULAY

ANDREW STILLER: Handbook of Instrumentation. Berkeley, London: University of California Press, 1985. xx, 533pp. ISBN 0 520 04423 1. :: JOHN DICK

WILHELM ROOS: Die Sammlung historischer Musikinstrumente in der Landesfürstlich Burg zu Meran. Meran: Museum Meran, 1987. 55pp. [Text in German.] :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE

WALTER SALMEN, ed.: Kontrabass und Bassfunktion: Bericht über die Fachtagung; Innsbruck, 28-30 August 1984. Innsbruck: Helbling, 1986. 221pp. ISBN 3 900590 00 1. (Innsbrucker Beiträger zür Musikwissenschaft Band 12). [Text in German.] :: MARTIN ELSTE

VINICIO GAI: La Voluta degli Strumenti ad Arco: Considerazioni Storiche. Roma: Torre d'Orfeo, 1988. 54pp. [Text in Italian.] :: MARCUS BENNETT

HORST STEINMETZ and ADAM GRIEBEL, (eds.): Volksmusikinstrumente in Franken. Bad Windsheim: Fränkishes Freilandsmuseum, 1983. 1983. 104pp. (Schriften und Kataloge des Fränkischen Freilandsmuseums) ISBN 3 7689 0206 4. Price: DM16.80. [Text in German] :: EDWARD H. TARR

DAG EDHOLM: Orgelbyggare i Sverige 1600-1900 och deras verk. Stockholm: Proprius, 1985. 159pp. ISBN 91 7118 499 6. Price: SKr 114.00 [Text in Swedish with summary in English.] :: MADS KJAERSGAARD

GÜNTHER JOPPIG: The Oboe and the Bassoon. Translated from the original 1981. German edition by Alfred Clayton London: Batsford, 1988. 223 pp. ISBN 0 7134 5680 9. Price: pounds sterling 14.95. :: PAUL WHITE

RODERICK D. CANNON: The Highland Bagpipe and its Music. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1988. xi, 203pp. ISBN 0 85976 153 3. Price: pounds sterling 18.00. :: HUGH CHEAPE

Instrumental tutors from the Bate Collection of Historical Instruments, Oxford, and the Private Library of Philip Bate. Compiled by Tim Bryard-Jones Reading: Research Publications, 1988. Booklet, xvi, 19pp. ISBN 0 86257 071 9; microfilm, 10 reels. Price: $1,165. :: ALBERT R. RICE

EKKEHARD MASCHER: Brauchgebundene Musikinstrumente in Niedersachsen. Hildesheim: Olms, 1986. x, 246pp. (Studien und Materialen zür Musikwissenschaft, 4). ISBN 3 487 07720 5. Price: DM68.00 [Text in German.] :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE

PAUL WOLFF: Checklist of Traditional Japanese Musical Instruments. The Hague: Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1988. 135pp. (Checklists of the Musical Instrument Collection of the Haags Gemeentemuseum, 2) ISBN 90 6730 061 6. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

PAUL WOLFF: Checklist of Musical Instruments from the East and South-East Asian Mainland. The Hague: Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1989. 231pp. (Checklists of the Musical Instrument Collection of the Haags Gemeentemuseum, 4) ISBN 90 6730 067 5. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

RICHARD M. MOYLE: The Sounds of Oceania: an illustrated catalogue of the sound producing instruments of Oceania in the Aukland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland Institute and Museum, 1989. 54pp. ISBN 0 908623 31 3. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

JAMES TYLER and PAUL SPARKS: The Early Mandolin: the Mandolino and the Neapolitan Mandoline. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. xi, 186pp. ISBN 0 19 318516 4. Price: pounds sterling 27.50 (Early Music Series, 9). :: JOSEPH R. JOHNSON

W. TROW GODDARD: A handbook on the strings of the pianoforte and other keyboard instruments with design formulae. Stockton-on-Tees: Goddard, 1985. 86pp. Price: pounds sterling 6.95. :: DARRYL MARTIN

EINAR ERICI: Orgelinventarium: Bevarade klassika kyrkorglar i Sverige nyutgivet av R. Axel Unnerback. Stockholm: Proprius, 1988. 527pp. ISBN 91 7118 557 7 [Text in Swedish.] :: MADS KJAERSGAARD

WALTER GIESELER, LUCA LOMBARDI and ROLF-DIETER WEYER: Instrumentation in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Celle: Moeck, 1985. 337pp. ISBN 3 87549 018 5. Price: DM135.00. [Text in German.] :: MARTIN ELSTE

GÜNTER DULLAT: Holzblasinstrumentenbau: Entwicklungsstufen und Technologien. Celle: Moeck, 1989. 330pp. ISBN 3 87549 032 0. Price: DM158.00 [Text in German.] :: ANDREAS MASEL

RENATE HUBER: Verzeichnis sämtlicher Musikinstrumente im Germanischen Nationalmuseum Nürnberg. Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, l989 415pp. ISBN 3 7959 0525 7. [Text in German.] :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL

JEREMY MONTAGU: The Flute. Princes Risborough, Bucks.: Shire Publications, 1990. 32pp. ISBN 0 7478 0085 5 (Shire Albums, 252). Price: pounds sterling 1.95. :: EDWINA SMITH

JEREMY MONTAGU: The French Horn. Princes Risborough, Bucks.: Shire Publications, 1990. 32pp. ISBN 0 7478 0086 5 (Shire Albums, 254). Price: pounds sterling 1.95. :: LANCE WHITEHEAD

CYRIL EHRLICH: The Piano: a History revised edition Oxford: OUP, 1990. 254pp. ISBN 0 19 816181 6 (hardback), 0 19 816171 9 (paperback). Prices: pounds sterling 25.00, pounds sterling 9.95 respectively. :: KENNETH MOBBS

ALBERT HILLER: Trompetenmusik aus drei Jahrhunderten, Band 1: 17. Jahrhundert, die Anfang. Köln: W.G. Haas, 1990. x, 55pp. ISBN 3 928453 01 7. (Kölner Musikbeitrage Heft 1.). Price: DM 32.00. [Text in German.] :: DAVID RYCROFT

NEIL SORRELL: A Guide to the Gamelan. London: Faber, 1990. xxviii, 142pp. ISBN 0 571 14401 2 (hardback); 0 571 14404 7 (paperback). Price: pounds sterling 15.00 (paperback). :: SAM QUIGLEY

MARK J. FASMAN: Brass Bibliography: sources on the History, Literature, Pedagogy, Performance and Acoustics of Brass Instruments. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. 464pp. ISBN 0 253 32130 1. :: ARNOLD MYERS

Die Klangwelt Mozarts. Eine Ausstellung des Kunsthistorisches Museums Wien Vienna: The Museum, 1991. 335pp. öS 490.00. [Text in German.] :: KENNETH MOBBS

HELEN ALBERTSON: Ahlberg &Ohlsson: en Fabrik för Bleckblåsinstrument i Stockholm 1850-1959. Stockholm: Musikmuseet, 1990. 160pp. ISBN 91 7970 938 9 (Musikmuseets Skrifter, 17) [Text in Swedish.] :: GEORGE A. STRUCEL

OWEN H. JORGENSEN: Tuning, Containing the Perfection of Eighteenth-Century Temperament, the Lost Art of Nineteenth-Century Temperament and the Science of Equal Temperament. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1991. xxiii, 798pp. ISBN 0 87013 290 3. Price: $65.00. :: EDGAR HUNT

JOSE DE JUAN MARTINEZ: Metodo de Clarin. Reprint of 1830 edition edited by Beryl Kenyon de Pascual Madrid: Real Conservatorio de Música de Madrid, 1990. Distributed by Alpuerto, 1991. XI, 72pp. ISBN 84 404 8357 0. Price: 1200 Pesetas. [Text in Spanish with editorial summary in English.] :: EDWARD H. TARR

ANTHONY BAINES: Gli Ottoni. Edizione italiana a cura di Renato Meucci Torino: E.D.T., 1991. xv, 286pp. ISBN 88 7063 091 9. [Text in Italian] :: RINALDO PELLIZZARI

MALCOLM ROSE and DAVID LAW: A Handbook of Historical Stringing Practice for Keyboard Instruments 1671-1856 Lewes: Malcolm Rose and David Law, 1991. 215pp. ISBN 0 9518590 0 5. Price: pounds sterling 29.50. :: DARRYL MARTIN

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER XLIV [31 reviews of 32 books] 1991, Reviews Editor: Arnold Myers

ALEXANDER PILIPCZUK: Elfenbeinhorner im sakralen Konigtum Schwarzafrikas. Bonn: Verlag für systematische Musikwissenschaft, 1985. 136 pp. ISBN 3 922626 42 4. :: DAVID RYCROFT

ELISABETH KVAERNE and BJORN AKSDAL: Leve Langeleiken ! [exhibition catalogue]. Edited by P.A. Kjeldsberg. Trondheim: Ringve Museum, 1987. 66pp. ISBN 82 990305 3 6. :: RAYMOND PARKS

Instruments et musique instrumentale: textes reunis et presentes par Helene Charnasse avec la collaboration de Laurence Helleu. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1986. 251pp. ISBN 2 222 03941 X 130FF [Text in French] :: JOËL DUGOT

Handwerk im Dienste der Musik: 300 Jahre Berliner Musikinstrumentenbau. Berlin: Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 1987. 148pp. Price: DM15.00 (Text in German). :: VERONICA GUTMANN

NORMAN DEL MAR: A Companion to the Orchestra. London: Faber &Faber, 1987. 266pp. ISBN 0 571 14735 6. Price: pounds sterling 9.95. :: JOHN DICK

RICHARD J. DUNDAS: Twentieth Century brass musical instruments in the United States, revised edition Cincinnati: Queen City Brass Publications, 1989. x, 64pp. ISBN 0 9617093 1 6. Price: $10.00. :: FRANK TOMES

GEARY L. BAESE: Classic Italian Violin Varnish, its History, Materials, Preparation and Application. Fort Collins: the author, 1985. xi, 99pp. ISBN 0 9615510 0 3. Price: $190.00, includes Classic Italian Varnish Newsletter'. :: ESZTER FONTANA

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, UENO GAKUEN COLLEGE: Catalogue of the European Musical Instruments of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries in the Ueno Gakuen Collection. Tokyo: Ueno Gakuen College, 1980. 243pp. Second issue [supplement], 1990. 92pp. [Text in Japanese and English.] :: MARGARET BIRLEY

100 Jahre Berliner Musikinstrumentenmuseum 1888-1988. Berlin: Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 1988. 280pp. Price: DM28.00. (Text in German). :: VERONICA GUTMANN

SERGIO PAGANELLI: Musical instruments from the Renaissance to the 19th century. London: Cassell, 1988. 157pp. ISBN 0 304 32180 X. Price: pounds sterling 4.95. :: JOHN DICK

THOMAS HARPER: Instructions for the trumpet [facsimile of the 1837 edition] with commentary on the life of Harper by John Webb and Scott Sorensen Homer, N.Y.: Spring Tree Enterprises, 1988. xvii, 69pp. :: MICHAEL WRIGHT

HANNALORE REUTER, ed.: Orgelmuseum Borgentreich. Borgentreich: Stadt Borgentreich, 1985. 120pp. Price: DM12.50 (Text in German). :: IRMTRAUD KRUGER

EDWARD TARR: The Trumpet. Translated from the German by S.E. Plank and Edward Tarr London: Batsford, 1988. 221pp. ISBN 0 7134 5463 6. Price: pounds sterling 14.95. :: MICHAEL WRIGHT

DON L. SMITHERS: The Music and History of the Baroque Trumpet before 1721, 2nd ed Buren: Knuf, 1988. 368pp. ISBN 90 6027 548 9. Price: DFl 98.00. :: MICHAEL WRIGHT

KURT JANETZKY and BERNHARD BRUCHLE: The Horn. Translated from the German by J. Chater London: Batsford, 1988. 127pp. ISBN 0 7134 5681 7. Price: pounds sterling 14.95. :: PAUL LEWIS

JAAP KOOL: The Saxophone. Baldock: Egon, 1987., 316pp. Price: pounds sterling 19.50 [English translation by Lawrence Gwozdz of the 1931 edition]. :: TOM DIBLEY

CHRISTIAN AHRENS: Eine Erfindungen und ihre Folgen, Blechblasinstrumente mit Ventilen. Kassel, London: Bärenreiter, 1986. 124pp. ISBN 3 7618 0789 9. Price: pounds sterling 12.00 (Text in German). :: EDWARD H. TARR

HELEN ALBERTSON: Om den s.k.  "svenska" Kornetten. Institutionen for Musikvetenskap vid Uppsala Universitet, 1984. 20, XLVIpp. Price: SKr 40.00 [Available from Musikmuseet, Stockholm] (Text in Swedish). :: EDWARD H. TARR

EVA HELENIUS-OBERG: Svenskt Klavikordbygge 1720-1820. Stockholm: Almqvist &Wiksell International, 1986. 313pp. (Musikmuseets Skrifter 12) ISBN 91 22 00822 5 (Text in Swedish). :: JOHN BARNES

OTTO KRONTHALER: Das Klarinettenblatt, eine Bauanleitung. Celle: Moeck, 1988. 95pp. ISBN 3 87549 034 7 (Text in German). :: TOM DIBLEY

PETER WILLIAMS and BARBARA OWEN: The Organ. London: Macmillan, 1988. 437pp. (New Grove Musical Instrument Series). ISBN 0 333 4445 0 (hardback), 0 333 4446 9 (paperback). Price: pounds sterling 9.95 (paperback). :: IRMTRAUD KRUGER

ADELAIDE DE PLACE: Le Piano-forte a Paris entre 1760 et 1822. Paris: Aux Amateurs de Livres, 1986. 383pp. (Domaine Musicologique, 2) ISBN 2 905093 24 0. Price: FF190 (Text in French). :: KENNETH MOBBS

ROBERTO BECHERI, Il Corno di Posta da Mezzo di Segnalazione a strumento sinfonico: Catalogo della mostra ... Prato: Istituto di Studi Storici Postali, 1989. 53pp. plus accompanying cassette ISBN 88 85658 07 5. Price: L 30,000. (Text in Italian). :: DAVID RYCROFT

ANTOINE MAHAUT: A New Method for Learning to Play the Transverse Flute [first published in 1759] Translated and Edited by Eileen Hadidian Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. xiv, 73pp. ISBN 0 253 20499 2. Price: $17.50. :: EDGAR HUNT

R.A. PENFOLD: Synthesizers for musicians. Tonbridge: PC Publishing, 1989. 169pp. ISBN 1 870775 01 5. Price: pounds sterling 6.95. :: CLIVE GREATED

ROSLYN RENSCH: Harps and harpists. London: Duckworth, 1989. xiv, 329pp. ISBN 0 7156 2216 1. Price: pounds sterling 35.00. :: JENNY McKENZIE

NELLY VAN REE BERNARD: The Psaltery: an Annotated Audio-visual Review of different types of Psaltery. Buren: Knuf, 1989. 168pp; with accompanying cassette. Price: DFl 88.00 (hardback) DFl 68.OO (paperback). :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL

KARL HENTSCHEL: Das Oboenrohr, eine Bauanleitung. Celle: Moeck, 1986. 96pp. ISBN 3 87549 025 8. Price: DM 19.50. [Text in German.] :: SUSAN THOMSON

WOLFGANG KOHLER: Die Blasinstrumente aus der "Harmonie Universelle" des Marin Mersenne. Celle: Moeck, 1987. 408pp. ISBN 3 87549 029 0. Price: DM 50.00 [Text in German.] :: EDGAR HUNT

MARY REMNANT: Musical instruments: an illustrated history from antiquity to the present. London: Batsford, 1990. ISBN 0 931340 23 3. :: DAVID RYCROFT

CLIFF BEVAN: Musical Instrument Collections in the British Isles. Winchester: Piccolo Press, 1990. 128pp. ISBN 1 872203 10 8. Price: pounds sterling 7.95. :: JOLYON FEARNLEY

JOSE L.ROMANILLOS: Exposicion de guitarras antiguas espanolas. Alicante: Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Alicante, 1990. 36pp. (Text in Spanish). :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER XLIII [17 reviews of 22 books] 1990, Reviews Editor: Arnold Myers

CHRISTOPHER PAGE: Voices and instruments of the middle ages: instrumental practice and songs in France 1100-1300. London: Dent, 1987. xi, 316pp. ISBN 0 460 04607 1. :: MARY REMNANT

MANTLE HOOD: The Evolution of Javanese Gamelan, book 1: the Music of the Roaring Sea. Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, New York: Peters, 1980. 230pp. ISBN 3 7959 0280 0. Price: DM 19.80.
MANTLE HOOD: The Evolution of Javanese Gamelan, book 2: the Legacy of the Roaring Sea. Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, New York: Peters, 1984. 216pp. ISBN 3 7959 0282 X. Price: DM 19.80.
MANTLE HOOD: The Evolution of Javanese Gamelan, book 3: Paragon of the Roaring Sea. Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, New York: Peters, 1989. 390pp. ISBN 3 7959 0282 7. Price: DM 29.80. :: NEIL SORREL

CLEMENS VON GLEICH: A checklist of pianos. Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1986. 119pp. (Checklists of the Musical Instrument Collection of the Haags Gemeentemuseum, Vol. 1). :: JOHN CRANMER

Studia Organologia: Festschrift für John Henry van der Meer zu seinem funfundsechzigsten Geburtstag, herausgegeben von Friedemann Hellwig Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1987. 555pp. DM380.00. :: ANTHONY BAINES and ANDREW GARRETT

GARY STURM and WILLIAM MONICAL: American violin makers before 1930 [Exhibition; Washington, D.C., 12 June - 23 August 1987.]: catalog. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American History, 1987. ix, 57pp.
THOMAS JAMES WENBERG: The violin makers of the United States, biographical documentation of the violin and bow makers who have worked in the United States. Mt. Hood, Oregon: Mt. Hood Publishing, 1986. X, 399pp. ISBN 0 938071 05 X. Price: $200.00. :: MARCUS BENNETT

JOSE VILLAR RODRIGUEZ: La guitarra espanola: caracteristicas y construccion. Barcelona: Clivis Publications, 1985. 218pp. ISBN 84 85927 11 7 (Collecio Neuma, 10). :: JOSÉ ROMANILLOS

D. MURRAY CAMPBELL and CLIVE GREATED: The musician's guide to acoustics. London: Dent, 1987. ISBN 0 460 04644 6. Price: pounds sterling 35.00. :: JOHN JURITZ

FRIEND ROBERT OVERTON: Der Zink: Geschichte, Bauweise und Spieltechnik eines historischen Musikinstruments. Mainz, London: Schott, 1981. 260pp. ISBN 3 7957 1781 7. :: FRANCES PALMER

ADOLF HEINRICH KONIG: Die Viola da gamba. Frankfurt-am-Main: Bochinsky, 1985. 175pp. ISBN 3 923639 64 3. DM 159.00. In German. :: EDGAR HUNT

PERCIVAL PRICE: Bells and Man. Oxford: O.U.P., 1983. xviii, 288pp. Price: pounds sterling 12.95 ISBN 0 19 318103 7.
JOHN CAMP: In Praise of Bells: the Folklore and Tradition of Bells. Robert Hale, 1988. 203pp. Price: pounds sterling 12.95. ISBN 0 7090 3277 3. :: EDGAR HUNT

ALOYS GREITHER: Geigen und andere Streichinstrumente des 18. Jahrhunderts aus Venedig. Hanau: Werner Dausien, 1988. 271pp. ISBN 3 7684 9631 7 [Text in German.] :: MARCUS BENNETT

NICHOLAS KENYON, ed.: Authenticity and early music, a symposium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. xv, 219pp. ISBN 0 19 816152 2 (hardback), 0 19 816153 0 (paperback). Prices pounds sterling 25.00, pounds sterling 8.95 respectively.
HARRY HASKELL: The Early Music Revival, a History. London: Thames &Hudson, 1988. 232pp. Price: pounds sterling 15.95. ISBN 0 500 01449 3 :: KENNETH MOBBS

RAYMOND MEYLAN: The flute. London: Batsford, 1988. 143pp. ISBN 0 7134 5737 6. Price: pounds sterling 14.95 :: EDWINA SMITH

ARTHUR A. REBLITZ: Player piano servicing and rebuilding. Vestal, N.Y.: Vestal Press, 1985. viii, 216pp. ISBN 0 911572 41 4 (hardback), 0 911572 40 6 (paperback). :: TOM DIBLEY

EDWIN M. RIPIN, PHILIP R. BELT, MARIBEL MEISEL, DEREK ADLAM, WILLIAM J. CONNER, ROSAMOND E.M. HARDING, CYRIL EHRLICH, HUGH DAVIES, ROBERT WINTER, J. BRADFORD ROBINSON, HAROLD C. SCHONBERG and SUSAN BRADSHAW: The Piano. London: Macmillan, 1988. 190pp. ISBN 0 333 4447 7 (hardback), 0 333 4448 5 (paperback). Price: pounds sterling 6.95 (paperback). (New Grove Musical Instrument Series). :: KENNETH MOBBS

JEAN-RÉMY JULIEN and JEAN-CLAUDE KLEIN 9EDS): Orphée Phrygien - les musiques de la Révolution. Paris: Editions du May, 1989. 232pp. ISBN 2 906450 32 4 [Text in French]. :: EDGAR HUNT

LARRY PALMER: Harpsichord in America, a Twentieth-century Revival. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. xiv, 202pp. ISBN 0 253 32710 5. Price: $25.00. :: VIRGINIA PLEASANTS

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER XLII [22 reviews of 27 books] 1989, Reviews Editor: Arnold Myers

The historical harpsichord Vol. 1 Edited by Howard Schott New York: Pendragon, 1984. 125pp. :: JOHN BARNES

MARY REMNANT: English Bowed Instruments from Anglo-Saxon to Tudor times. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. xxv, 182pp. ISBN 0 19 816134. :: FRANCES PALMER

UTA HENNING: Musica Maximiliana: die Musikgraphiken in den bibliophilen Unternehmungen Kaiser Maximilians I, with an English summary Neu Ulm: :: DIETER KRICKEBERG

Art du faiseur d'instruments de musique et lutherie: extrait de l'encyclopedie methodique arts et metiers mecaniques. Geneve: Minkoff, 1984. reprint of original edition, Paris, 1785 186 pp., 21 plates ISBN 2 8266 0295 0. :: MICHAEL WRIGHT

MARTIN B. TITTLE: A performer's guide through historical keyboard tunings, revised edition Ann Arbor: Anderson Press, 1987. 80pp. ISBN 0 942479 01 7 (paper), ISBN 0 942479 02 5 (library). Prices $5.95, $12.95 respectively. :: KENNETH MOBBS

Per una carta del restauro: conservazione, restauro e riuso degli strumenti musicali antichi: atti del convegno internazionale (Venezia, 16-19 ottobre 1985.). Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1987. 462pp. (Quaderni della Rivista Italiana di Musicologica, 15). :: ROBERT BARCLAY

DANIEL J. KOURY: Orchestral performance practices in the nineteenth century: size, proportions, and seating. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986., 1981. xv, 409pp. (Studies in Musicology, No. 85.) ISBN 0 8357 1649 X :: JOHN DICK

JOSÉ L. ROMANILLOS: Antonio de Torres, guitar maker - his life and work. Shaftesbury: Element Books, 1987. xvi, 240pp. ISBN 0 906540 85 2 pounds sterling 25.00. :: ANDREW DIPPER

NELLY VAN REE BERNARD: Seven stages in clavichord development. between 1400 and 1800: an annotated and audiovisual review. Buren: Frits Knuf, 1987. 111pp. plus cassette recording. (Keyboard Studies, Vol. 7). :: JOHN BARNES

LUCAS VAN DIJCK and TON KOOPMAN: Het klavecimbel in de Nederlandse kunst tot 1800 = the harpsichord in Dutch art before 1800. Zutphen: De Walburg Pers, 1987. 159pp. ISBN 90 6011 546 5. Price: $25.00 or 40 Dutch guilders [Text in Dutch with English translation] :: MICHAEL HEALE

DIETER HILDEBRANDT: Pianoforte, der Roman des Klaviers im 19. Jahrhundert. Munich: Hanser Verlag, 1985. 400pp. ISBN 3 446 14181 2.
DIETER HILDEBRANDT: Pianoforte, a social history of the piano. Translated by Harriet Goodman London: Hutchinson, 1988. ix, 207pp. ISBN 0 09 173457 6. Price: pounds sterling 16.95. :: DOROTHY DEVAL

JOHN BARNES: Making a spinet by traditional methods. Welwyn: Mac and Me, 1985. 52pp. ISBN 0 9507782 4 9. :: MICHAEL HEALE

DAVID LEDBETTER: Harpsichord and lute music in 17th century France. London: Macmillan, November 1987. xvi, 194pp. ISBN 0 333 42755 6. Price: pounds sterling 30.00 :: MICHAEL HEALE

ALLEN B. SKEI: Woodwind, brass and percussion instruments of the orchestra: a bibliographic guide. New York: Garland, 1984. xiii, 271pp. Price: $39.00 (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 458.) :: ARNOLD MYERS

DAVID C. WICKENS: The instruments of Samuel Green. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1987. xiv, 209pp. ISBN 0 333 42720 3. Price: pounds sterling 30.00. :: E.A. KEANE RIDLEY

MARTHA GOODWAY and JAY SCOTT ODELL: The metallurgy of 17th and 18th century harpsichord wire. Stuyvesant, New York: Pendragon, 1987. xii, 143Pp ISBN 0 918728 54 1. Price $32.00. (The Historical Harpsichord, 2). :: DENZIL WRAIGHT

KEITH PROUD and RICHARD BUTLER: The Northumbrian small-pipes; an alphabetical history, vol. 1: Earliest times to 1850. Cramlington, Northumberland: Border Keep, 1984. 38pp. Price: pounds sterling 3.00.
Richard Butler's handbook for the Northumbrian small pipes: an in-depth maintenance manual. Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler, 1987. 40pp. ISBN 0 946928 07 X.
PETER STACEY and STEVIE WISHART: Bagpipes and hurdy-gurdies. Oxford: Sinfonie Publications, 1984. 28pp. ISBN 0 947955 00 3. :: HUGH CHEAPE

ALAN LUMSDEN: The Sound of the Sackbut: a lecture on the history of the trombone. Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments, 1988. 13pp. ISBN 0 907635 16 4. Price: pounds sterling 1.00.
DAVID M. GUION: The trombone, its history and music, 1697-1811. New York: STBS, 1988. 342pp. :: TREVOR HERBERT

RUDOLF REUTER: Orgeln in Spanien: Veroffentlichungen der Orgelwissenschaftlichen Forschungstelle im Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminar der Westfalischen Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, 14. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1986. 291pp. Price: DM98. [Text in German] :: BERYL KENYON DE PASCUAL

J. DENIS: Treatise on harpsichord tuning. Translated and edited by Vincent J. Panetta, Jr Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. viii, 128pp. ISBN 0 521 30628 O (hard covers), 0 521 31402 X (paperback). :: JOHN RAYMOND

EDWARD L. KOTTICK: The harpsichord owner's guide. Chapel Hill, N.C., London: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. xi, 180pp. ISBN 0 8078 1745 7. Price: $29.95. :: PETER FOSTER

JAMES M. BORDERS: European and American wind and percussion instruments, catalogue of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988. 171pp. ISBN 0 472 10070 X. Price: $42.50. :: ARNOLD MYERS

DAVID LEDBETTER: Harpsichord and lute music in 17th-century France. London: Macmillan, 1987. 194pp. :: PENELOPE CAVE

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER XLI [29 reviews of 33 books] 1988, Reviews Editor: Arnold Myers

HANS FISCHER: Sound-producing instruments in Oceania: Papua New Guinea: Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1983. 249pp. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

GERHARD STRADNER: Musikinstrumenten in Grazer Sammlungen. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1986. 204pp. ISBN 3 7001 0753 6. :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE

DE ST LAMBERT: Principles of the harpsichord, translated and edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick. Cambridge: C.U.P., 1984. :: MARIA BOXALL

A.J. HIPKINS and WILLIAM GIBB: Musical instruments historic, rare and unique. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1888. xxiv, 123pp., 50 chromolithographic plates. :: ARNOLD MYERS

RIEN DE REEDE (ed.): Concerning the flute. Amsterdam: Broekmans en van Poppel, 1984. 128pp. :: EDWINA SMITH

VICTOR CHARLES MAHILLON: Éléments d'Acoustique Musicale et Instrumentale. Brussels: Les Amis de la Musique, 1984. 368pp. [Text in French]. :: D. MURRAY CAMPBELL

JOHN HENRY VAN DER MEER: Musikinstrument von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. München: Prestel, 1983. 303pp. ISBN 3 7913 0656 1. [Text in German] :: HERBERT HEYDE

SUMI GUNJI et al.: The Collection of Musical Instruments [catalogue]. Tokyo: Kunitachi College of Music Research Institute, 1986. 320pp. :: JEREMY MONTAGU

MALOU HAINE et NICOLAS MEEÙS: Dictionnaire des facteurs d'instruments en Wallonie et à Bruxelles du 9e siecle à nos jours. Bruxelles: Mardaga, [1986.] 767pp. ISBN 2 87009 250 4. :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE

FLORENCE GÉTREAU: La Facture instrumentale Européene: suprématies nationales et enrichissement mutuel [exhibition; Paris, 6 November 1985. - 1 March 1986. Musée Instrumental du Conservatoire national superieur de Musique de Paris, 1985. 247pp. ISBN 2 90312 803 0. :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE

GERHARD STRADNER: Spielpraxis und Instrumentarium um 1500: Dargestellt an Sebastian Virdung's "Musica Getutscht" (Basel 1511). Wien: Verband der Wissenschaftlichen Gesselschaften Österreichs, 1983. 2 vols In German. :: EDGAR HUNT

MICHAEL PRAETORIUS: Syntagma Musicum II, de Organographie parts I and II. Translated and edited by D.Z. Crookes Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. xx, 104pp, 43 plates. ISBN 0 19 316406 X. :: EDGAR HUNT

SIGFRIDO LESCHIUTTA: Appunti per una bibliografia sul clavecembalo e fortepiano. Padova: G. Zanibon, 1983. 131pp. :: G. GRANT O'BRIEN

RICHARD T. PINNELL: Francesco Corbetta and the baroque guitar, with a transcription of his works. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1980. 1 volume text, xviii, 264pp, 1 volume music, xxv, 402pp. ISBN 0 8357 1140 4.  pounds sterling 32.75. :: ANNE MACAULAY

CLEMENS VON GLEICH: Over het Ontstaan van de Muziekafdeling: Portret van de verzameling-Scheurleer. Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1985. 44pp. :: WILLIAM WATERHOUSE

Historical organ notes No.1. Folkestone: Historical Organs Information, 1987. 12pp.
Historical organ broadsheets Nos 1 - 5. Folkestone: Historical Organs Information, 1986. - 7. Each 1p.
Historical organ newsletters Nos 1 - 2. Folkestone: Historical Organs Information, 1986. - 7. Each 2pp. :: E.A. KEANE RIDLEY

A. BRUNI: Inventaire sous la Terreur, Etat des instruments de Musique ... ed. J. Gallay Geneva: Minkoff, 1984., 238pp. ISBN 2 8266 0816 9. [Text in French]. :: FRANCES PALMER

ÅKE NORBORG: A handbook of musical and other sound-producing instruments from Namibia and Botswana. Stockholm: Musikmuseet, 1987. xxii, 454 pp. (Musikmuseets skrifter 13). :: PETER COOKE

Flutes from private collections. [Catalogue of an exhibition, July-August 1986.; text by Robert A. Lehmann, photographs by Stewart Pollens.] New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Musical Instruments, 1986. 41pp, 16 plates. :: PHILIP BATE

WOLFGANG SOWODNY, ed.: The viola: Yearbook of the International Viola Research Society 1979 and 1980. Kassell: Bärenreiter, 1979, 1980. :: MARTIN OUTRAM

Dance and music in South Asian drama: report of Asian Traditional Performing Arts 1981. Tokyo: Academie Music for the Japan Foundation, 1983. xx, 354pp. :: NEIL SORRELL

STEFANO TOFFOLO: Antichi strumenti Veneziani 1500-1800: quattro secoli di liuteria e cembalaria. Venice: Arsenale Editrice, 1987. 231pp. Price: 28,000 Lire [Text in Italian.] :: JOHN HENRY VAN DER MEER

ANDREW ASHBEE: Records of English Court Music Volume I: 1660-1685. Andrew Ashbee, 1981. xviii, 129pp. ISBN 0 9507207 1 2. Price: pounds sterling 6.00
ANDREW ASHBEE: Records of English Court Music Volume II: 1685-1714. Andrew Ashbee, 1987. 246pp. ISBN 0 9507207 3 9. Price: pounds sterling 12.95. :: MAURICE BYRNE

P.A. KJELDSBERG: Piano in Norge et uundvaerligt Instrument. Oslo: Huitfeldt, 1985. 95pp. ISBN 82 7003 060 0 [Text in Norwegian] :: JOHN CRANMER

De familie Couchet. [Edited by] J. Lambrechts-Douillez. Antwerp: Ruckers-Genootschap, 1986. 52pp. (Mededelingen van het Ruckers-Genootschap 5) [Text in Flemish and English] :: MIMI S. WAITZMAN

ROBIN STOWELL: Violin technique and performance practice in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xv, 411pp. ISBN 0 521 232 791. Price: pounds sterling 45.00. :: MARCUS BENNETT

ALBERT HILLER: Das grosse Buch vom Posthorn. Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1985. 302pp. ISBN 3 7959 0448 X. Price: DM58. :: ARNOLD MYERS

WALTER SALMEN [Editor]: Jakob Stainer und seine Zeit, Bericht über die Jakob-Stainer-Tagung; Innsbruck, 1983. Innsbruck: Helbling, 1984. 216pp. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zür Musikwissenschaft, Band 10) In German. :: MARCUS BENNETT

INGRID DE GEER: Earl, saint, bishop, skald - and music: the Orkney Earldom of the Twelfth Century, a musicological study. Uppsala Universitet Institutionen for Musikvetenskap, 1985. 333pp. :: PETER COOKE

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List of books reviewed in GSJ NUMBER XL [10 reviews of 10 books] 1987, Reviews Editor: Arnold Myers

ROBERT TUCCI and ANTONELLA RICCI: Calabria strumenti [recordings and commentaries]. Milan, n.d. :: ANTHONY BAINES

KENNETH TERRY MEYER: The crumhorn: its history, design, repertory and technique. Ann Arbor: UMI Research, 1982. 272pp. ISBN 0 8357 1406 3. Price: pounds sterling 37.75. :: ANTHONY BAINES

KEVIN COATES: Geometry, proportion and the art of Lutherie. Oxford: O.U.P., 1985. ISBN 0 19 816139 5. Price: pounds sterling 40.00. :: PAUL BOWERS

BARRA BOYDELL: Music and paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland. 1985. ISBN 0 903162 22 9. Price: pounds sterling 6.95. :: JANE FARRINGTON

TERENCE FORD, editor: Inventory of music iconography, No. 1. New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1986. :: JANE FARRINGTON

PETER and ANN MACTAGGART: Practical gilding. Welwyn: Mac &Me, 1986. 72pp. Price: pounds sterling 5.95. :: JOHN RAWSON

JEREMY MONTAGU: Bate Guides. Oxford: Bate Collection of Historical Instruments, 1986. 5 parts. :: ARNOLD MYERS

PETER and ANN MACTAGGART, editors: Musical instruments in the 1851 Exhibition. Welwyn: Mac &Me, 1986. 109pp. ISBN 0 9507782 6 5. Price: pounds sterling 15.00. :: JOHN CRANMER

JOEL COHEN and HERB SNITZER: Reprise - the extraordinary revival of Early Music. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown &Co., 1985. 227pp. ISBN 0 316 15037 1. Price: $25.00. :: JOHN DICK

EDWARD H. TARR: Trompetenmuseum Bad Säckingen Katalog. Bad Säckingen: Trompetenmuseum, [1986.] 150pp. :: JOHN WEBB

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