This superior study by a leading authority is considered the definitive work on woodwinds. The two-part survey combines a discussion of design and construction with a detailed history of the evolution of instruments from earliesttimes to the present. Foreword by Sir Adrian Boult. Includes 75 illustrations, 25 musical examples, and 16 fingering charts.
Reprint of the Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1977 third edition.
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Anthony Baines (1912-97) specialized in a branch of musicology known as organology. He produced a wide variety of works on the history of musical instruments and was a founding member of the Galpin Society, formed to further research into the history, construction, development, and use of musical instruments.
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