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Volume 48, 2022
Journal of the
American Musical Instrument Society
Front Matter
A Small Upright Piano from Pennsylvania: Relic from the
Origins of the Piano and Made by John Clemm(?) (pp. 5–29)
John R. Watson
The String Scaling of the Upright Piano by John Clemm(?) in
its Historical Context (pp. 30–71)
John Koster
An Extraordinary Fine Instrument: The Grand Pianoforte of
John Michael Berent (pp. 72–117)
Thomas Strange and Alexandra Cade
A Unique Over-the-Shoulder Bugle with Valves and Keys and
Its Owner, James Rice, Teacher of Brass Bands (pp. 118–161)
george Foreman and robb stewart
Gautrot and His Sarrusophone Revisited: A Multidisciplinary
Approach (pp. 162–190)
José-modesto diago ortega
Guido Chigi Saracini, Leandro Bisiach, and Five Bowed
String Instruments at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in
Siena (pp. 191–220)
giorgio Farabegoli and cesare mancini
Sounds of Futuristic Nostalgia: The Cultural Legacy of Blade
Runner (1982) and the Yamaha CS-80 Synthesizer (pp. 221–257)
Julin lee
Making the Tunisian ‘Ūd ‘Arbī Today: Heritage of
Craftsmanship and New Directions (pp. 258–284)
salvatore morra
Reviews (pp. 285–299)
Michael Fleming and Christopher Page, eds. Music and Instruments
of the Elizabethan Age: The Eglantine Table
Reviewed by Herbert Myers
Douglas MacMillan. The Flageolet in England 1660–1914
Reviewed by Robert Bigio
Thomas Strange. “A Respectable Inhabitant of This City”: John Geib
and Sons, Organ Builders & Piano Forte Manufacturers
Reviewed by Thomas Winter
David Breitman. Piano Playing Revisited: What Modern Players Can
Learn from Period Instruments
Reviewed by Anne Acker
Jane Ellsworth, ed. The Clarinet
Reviewed by Catherine Crisp
Communications (pp. 300–313)
Stefaan Verdegem and Ricardo Simian on 3D Printing
Paul Knoke on a Historic Harp
Herbert Myers and Daniel Crespo Alcarria on Early Violin Bows
Recent Publications (pp. 314–324)
Compiled by Pamela R. Dennis
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Volume 47, 2021
Journal of the
American Musical Instrument Society
Front Matter
The Beginnings of the Violin Bow: Distinctive Capped
Specimens for a New Instrument (pp. 5–28)
Daniel Crespo Alcarria
Something More about Straight-Top Oboes (pp. 29–91)
Marcello Rizzello
The Too-too of Suriname and French Guiana: Side-blown
Trumpets in the African Diaspora (pp. 92–117)
Stewart Carter
Kemangeh Roumy, a Multistring Instrument in Epirus (pp. 118–161)
sotirios Katsouras
The Lambeg Drum in Northern Ireland: Drum Making
and Performance (pp. 162–182)
colin Harte
Reviews (pp. 183–206)
David Leinweber. The Art of Ancient Music
Reviewed by Allison A. Alcorn
Maggie Kilbey. Music-Making in the Hertfordshire Parish, 1760–1870
Reviewed by Catherine Crisp
Nicholas Thistlethwaite. Organ-building in Georgian and Victorian
England: The Work of Gray & Davison, 1772–1890
Reviewed by laurence libin
Mike Baldwin. Harp Making in Late-Georgian London
Reviewed by Paul Knokke
William E. Hettrick. The American Piano Industry: Episodes in the His-
tory of a Great Enterprise
Reviewed by Anne Acker
Uri M. Kupferschmidt. Strings and Celebrities—Hakkert’s “First Dutch
Stringmakers”
Reviewed by geerten verberKmoes
Recent Publications (pp. 207–215)
Compiled by Pamela R. Dennis
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Volume 46, 2020
Journal of the
American Musical Instrument Society
Front Matter
The Pérez de Lara Family, Mexican Organ and Piano Builders (pp. 5–27)
Edward Charles Pepe
Thomas Loud, Immigrant Piano Builder in America,
from Clementi, London (pp. 28–77)
Thomas Strange
A Nineteenth-Century Maltese Bagpipe in the Metropolitan
Museum Collection (pp. 78–98)
Anna Borg Cardona
The Early Evolution of the Saxophone Mouthpiece (pp. 99–125)
Timothy R. Rose
Amateurs, Autodidacts, and the First Decade of Classical
Guitar-Making in Britain (pp. 126–177)
Joss Winn
Carleen Maley Hutchins: Reconsidering the Legacy of a
Luthier and Acoustician (pp. 178–223)
Allison A. Alcorn
Reviews (pp. 224–247)
Florence Gétreau. Voir la musique
Reviewed by Robert Adelson
Patrizio Barbieri. Hydraulic Musical Automata in Italian Villas
and Other Ingenia 1400–2000
Reviewed by Anne Beetem Acker
Bettina Hoffmann. The Viola da Gamba, translated by Paul Ferguson
Reviewed by Thomas MacCracken
Michael Latcham. Towards a New History of the Piano: A Context
for the Work of Johann Andreas Stein as a Piano Maker
Reviewed by John R. Watson
Francesco Carreras. I brevetti italiani sugli strumenti musicali, elenco sintetico
dal 1855 al 2018 con il testo integrale dei brevetti sugli strumenti a fiato
Reviewed by Albert R. Rice
Die Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente—Die ersten 100 Jahre / The Collection of Historic Musical Instruments—The First 100 Years, edited by B. Darmstädter, R. Hopfner, and A. Huber
Reviewed by Panagiotis Poulopoulos
Recent Publications (pp. 248–258)
Compiled by Pamela R. Dennis
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Volume 45, 2019
Journal of the
American Musical Instrument Society
Front Matter
Lutherie and Luthiers in Late-Renaissance and Baroque
Rome: Archival Investigations (pp. 5–120)
Patrizio barbieri
The Production of Musical Instruments in Tuscany:
Insights into the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (pp. 121–143)
Maria Da Gloria Leitao Venceslau
From Countryside to Capital: The Tomschik Family of
Wind-Instrument Makers (pp. 144–185)
Reinout Woltjer
On the Dating of Wind Instruments Marked “Triebert” (pp. 186–261)
Robert Howe
David José Rubio, English Gentleman Luthier: An Identity
Born in the USA (pp. 262–284)
JaMes Westbrook
REVIEW ESSAY (pp. 285–292)
Objects Indestructible: Metronomes on Exhibition
alexander bonus
Book Reviews (pp. 00–00)
Trevor Herbert, Arnold Myers, and John Wallace, eds.
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments
Reviewed by E. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer
Robert Riggs, ed. The Violin
Reviewed by Arian Sheets
Eva Badura-Skoda. The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano
Grand and its Patrons from Scarlatti to Beethoven
Reviewed by Kathryn L. Libin
Recent Publications (pp. 305–311)
Compiled by Pamela R. Dennis
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Volume 44, 2018
Journal of the
American Musical Instrument Society
Front Matter
Organology and Other Organology: Seven Essays (pp. 5–6)
Organology and the Others: A Political Perspective (pp. 7–17)
Gabriele Rossi Rognoni
Organology and Material Culture (pp. 18–25)
Flora Dennis
Museums as Theater: What about Musical Instruments? (pp. 26–32)
Eric De Visscher
Seeing Instruments (pp. 33–40)
Emily I. Dolan
Actor-Network Theory and Organology (pp. 41–51)
Eliot Bates
A View from the Trenches (pp. 52–63)
John Koster
Organology and the Others: A Response (pp. 64–75)
Laurence Libin
Organology and Other Organology: A Selective Bibliography (pp. 76–87)
"A Guittar to Be Played with a Bow, as Well as with the Fingers": Reconsidering a Puzzling Hybrid by Frederick Hintz (pp. 88–122)
Panagiotis Poulopoulos
The English Triple Flageolet (pp. 123–143)
Douglas Macmillan
The Origins of the "Indian" Harmonium: Evidence
from the Colonial Press and London Patent Office (pp. 144–178)
Cleveland Johnson
Charles Jean-Baptiste Soualle and the Saxophone (pp. 179–208)
Stephen Cottrell
The American Piano-Supply Industry in the Nineteenth Century, with Particular Attention
to the Career and Manufacturing Methods of Joseph P. Hale (Part 2) (pp. 209–308)
William E. Hettrick
New England Digital Corporation 1976-1992:
Developing the Capabilities of Digital Sound (pp. 309–330)
Robert E. Eliason
Book Reviews (pp. 331–342)
Michael Fleming and John Bryan, Early English Viols:
Instruments, Makers, and Music
Reviewed by Thomas Fitz-Hugh Mace
Christopher Page, The Guitar in Stuart England: A Social
and Musical History
Reviewed by Paul Sparks
Sabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R and Joella E. Utley Collection. Volume 3: Valves Evolve
Reviewed by Herbert Heyde
Douglas Koeppe, Woodwinds in Early America
Reviewed by Geoffrey Burgess
Recent Publications (pp. 00–00)
Compiled by Pamela R. Dennis
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Volume 43, 2017
Journal of the
American Musical Instrument Society
Front Matter
Inside an Eighteenth-Century Instrument Builder's Workshop:
Erard's Letter Copy Book (1791-1797) (pp. 5–57)
Robert Adelson
The American Piano-Supply Industry in the Nineteenth Century, with Particular Attention
to the Career and Manufacturing Methods of Joseph P. Hale (Part 1) (pp. 58–170)
William E. Hettrick
Inside-Out: David Tudor's Composition of the Pepsi Pavilion
as a Musical Instrument (pp. 171–202)
You Nakai
Jamestown Revisited: Another Trumpet Mouthpiece from Colonial Virginia (pp. 203–215)
Stewart Carter and Sabine K. Klaus
Book Reviews (pp. 216–232)
Jeremy Montagu, Horns and Trumf1ets of the World: An Illustrated Guide
Reviewed by Bradley Strauchen-Scherer
Hannes Vereecke, The Sixteenth-Century Trombone:
Dimensions, Materials and Techniques
Reviewed by Arnold Myers
Christopher Germain, Philip J. Kass, Darcy Kuronen, Dameron Midgett, and John Montgomery, The American Violin
Reviewed by Allison A. Alcorn
Edward Blakeman, Wibb—A Flute for Life
Reviewed by Kyle Dzapo
Robert Adelson, Alain Roudier,Jenny Nex, Laure Barthel, and Michel Foussard, eds., The History of the Erard Piano and Harp in Letters and Documents,
1785-1959
Reviewed by Panagiotis Poulopoulos
Recent Publications (pp. 233–240)
Compiled by Pamela R. Dennis
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Volume 42, 2016
Journal of the
American Musical Instrument Society
Front Matter
The Boston Musical Instrument Manufactory/Company, 1869-1919
Part II: Mid-Range Brasses, Band Instrument Sets, Trumpets, Horns, Woodwinds,
and Percussion (pp. 5–42)
Robert E. Eliason, Robb Stewart, Richard J. Martz
Boosey & Hawkes in Peace and War 1930-45 (pp. 43–86)
Jocelyn Howell
Schou: A Music Publisher Producing Musical Instruments (pp. 87–160)
Reinout Woltjer
The E-flat Contra Alto Clarinet by Maldura (1881) and B-flat Contra Bass Clarinets
by Besson (1890) (pp. 161–196)
Albert R. Rice
The Habeneck violin, Count Cozio di Salabue, and Francesco Stradivari (pp. 197–220)
Nicholas Sackman
Appendix: Color Photographs (pp. 221–234)
Book Reviews (pp. 235–253)
Jerrold Levinson, Musical Concerns: Essays in Philosophy of Music,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Reviewed by Robert Adelson
Sun Zhuo, The Chinese Zheng Zither: Contemporary Transformations.
Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2015.
Reviewed by Beth Bullard
Patrizio Barbieri, Physics of Wind Instruments and 0rgan Pipes
1100-2010. New and Extended Writings. Latina, Italy: Il Levante Libreria, 2013.
Reviewed by Murray Campbell
Stewart Pollens, The Manual of Musical Instrument Conservation.
Cambridge: University Printing House, 2015.
Reviewed by John Watson
Alberto Cuellar et al. La Escuela Granadina de Guitarreros = The Granada
School of Guitar-Makers, ed. John Ray, [Granada]: Diputación de Granada, 2014.
Reviewed by James Westbrook
Quincy Whitney, American Luthier: Carleen Hutchins—the Art & Science of
the Violin. Lebanon, NH: Fore Edge Books, 2016.
Reviewed by Allison A. Alcorn
Recent Publications (pp. 254–261)
Compiled by Pamela R. Dennis
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Volume 41, 2015
Journal of the
American Musical Instrument Society
Front Matter
The Boston Musical Instrument Manufactory/Company, 1869-1919 Part I:
Company History, E-flat and B-flat Cornet Development (pp. 5–45)
Robert E. Eliason, Robb Stewart, Richard J. Marz
Gottlieb and David Wohlhaupter: Early Woodwind Turners of New York City (pp. 46–63)
Susan E. Thompson
"In the Name of God Amen": 132 Wills of the Piano Industry Workforce in England
(1773-1857) (pp. 64–154)
Marie Kent
Harpsichord vs Pianoforte in Eighteenth-Century Rome:
Archival Investigations (pp. 155–217)
Patrizio Barbieri
Contemplating the Tan bur of the Kurdish Ahl-i Haqq of Guran:
A Biographical Organology (pp. 218–259)
Partow Hooshmandrad
Book Reviews (pp. 260–283)
The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd ed. Laurence Libin,
Editor-in-chief.
Reviewed by Hayson Kerr Dobney
Claude Montal. The Art of Tuning: A Self-Guided Manual for Piano Tuning, Design, Action Regulation, and Repair from mid-19th Century France: For the Piano Owner and Technician, with Guidelines for Training the Blind and Visually impaired, translated by Fred Sturm
Reviewed by Anne Beetem Acker
Jerome Lejeune. A Guide to Period lnstruments—Guide des instruments
anciens—Leitfaden durch die historischen lnstrumente; A Guide to Musical
Instruments vol 11, 1800-1950
Reviewed by Geoffrey Burgess
Sabine Ka1herina Klaus. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History
Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F Utley Collection, Volume 2, Ways to
Expand the Harmonic Series
Reviewed by Ralph Thomas Dudgeon
Inventing the American Guitar: The Pre-Civil War Innovations of C. F Martin and his Contemporaries, ed. Roben Shaw and Peter Szego
Reviewed by Darcy Kuronen
Stephen Cottrell. The Saxophone. The Yale University instrument Series
Reviewed by James R. Noyes
Recent Publications (pp. 284–291)
Compiled by Pamela R. Dennis
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Volume 40, 2014
Journal of the
American Musical Instrument Society
Front Matter
Comments and Reflections upon the 40th Anniversary Issue of the
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SOCIETY (pp. 5–8)
Congratulations from the President
Albert R. Rice, President—AMIS
Milestones
William E. Hettrick, Former Editor of the Journal
In the Beginning
Cynthia Adams Hoover, Founding Member of AMIS
The 1799 Organized Upright Grand Piano in Williamsburg:
A Preliminary Report (pp. 9–28)
John R. Watson
Guitar Stringing in Late Nineteenth-Century North America:
The Emergence of Steel (pp. 29–24)
Nicholas Pyall
Echoes from the Fall of Richmond: The Instruments and Career of Bandmaster
George R. Choate (pp. 75–111)
Robert E. Eliason and Curt H. Davis
The Raoux Family of Master Horn Makers in France: New Documents and
Perspectives (pp. 112–162)
Tulia Giannini
The Android Clarinetist by Cornelis Jacobus van Oeckelen (1838) (pp. 163–189)
Albert R. Rice
Ingrid Larssen: A Female Saxophonist in the Nazi Era (pp. 190–218)
Heike Fricke
APPENDIX: Color Photographs (pp. 219–239)
Book Reviews (pp. 240–256)
Robert Bigio. Rudall, Rose & Carte: The Art of the Flute in Britain
Reviewed by Susan Berdahl
Mary Cyr. Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments
in French Baroque Music
Reviewed by Brandi Berry
Bernard Brauchli, Alberto Caiazzo, and Judith Wardman, eds. De Clavicordio IX: Proceedings of the IX International Clavichord Symposium.
Bernard Brauchli, Alberto Caiazzo, and.Judith Wardman, eds.
De Clavicordio X: Proceedings of the X International Clavichord Symposium
Reviewed by John Koster
Sumi Gunji and Henry Johnson. A Dictionary of Traditional Japanese Musical Instruments: From. Prehistory to the Edo Period
Reviewed by Jeremy Montagu
Anthony Hammond. Pierre Cochereau: Organist of Notre-Dame
Reviewed by Timothy Tikker
Communication (pp. 257–258)
Recent Publications (pp. 259–272)
Compiled by Pamela R. Dennis
Back Matter and Ads (pp. 273–end)
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