top of page

Volumes

Vol. 45, 2019
Vol. 44, 2018
Vol. 43, 2017
Vol. 42, 2016
Vol. 41, 2015
Vol. 40, 2014
Vol. 39, 2013
Vol. 38, 2012
Vol. 37, 2011
Vol. 36, 2010

Vol. 35, 2009
Vol. 34, 2008
Vol. 33, 2007
Vol. 32, 2006
Vol. 31, 2005
Vol. 30, 2004
Vol. 29, 2003
Vol. 28, 2002
Vol. 27, 2001
Vol. 26, 2000

Vol, 25, 1999
Vol, 24, 1998
Vol. 23, 1997
Vol. 22, 1996
Vol. 21, 1995
Vol. 20, 1994
Vol. 19, 1993
Vol. 18, 1992
Vol. 17, 1991
Vol. 16, 1990

Vol, 15, 1989
Vol, 14, 1988
Vol. 13, 1987
Vol. 12, 1986
Vol. 11, 1985
Vol. 10, 1984
Vol. 9, 1983
Vol. 8, 1982
Vol. 7, 1981

Vol, 5,6 1979-80
Vol. 4, 1978

Vol. 3, 1977
Vol. 2, 1976
Vol. 1, 1975

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 ‘ArbÄ«  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

​

Back Matter and Ads

​

2022

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

​

Back Matter and Ads

​

2021

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

​

Back Matter and Ads

​

2020

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

​

Back Matter and Ads

​

2019

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

​

Back Matter and Ads

​

2018

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

​

Back Matter and Ads

​

2017

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

​

Back Matter and Ads

​

2016

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

​

Back Matter and Ads

​

2015

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)

​

2014

Volume NN, YYYY

Journal of the
American Musical Instrument Society

Front Matter

​

Article Title (pp. 00–00)

Author First and Last Name

​

Article Title (pp. 00–00)

Author First and Last Name

​

Article Title (pp. 00–00)

Author First and Last Name

​

Article Title (pp. 00–00)

Author First and Last Name

​

Article Title (pp. 00–00)

Author First and Last Name

​

Article Title (pp. 00–00)

Author First and Last Name

 

Article Title (pp. 00–00)

Author First and Last Name

​

Article Title (pp. 00–00)

Author First and Last Name

​

Reviews (pp. 00–00)

Author, Title

Reviewed by Reviewer 

Author, Title

Reviewed by Reviewer 

Author, Title

Reviewed by Reviewer 

Author, Title

Reviewed by Reviewer 

Author, Title

Reviewed by Reviewer 

Author, Title

Reviewed by Reviewer 

​

Communications (pp. 00–00) 

Author, on subject

Author, on subject

Author, on subject

​

Recent Publications (pp. 00–00) 

Compiled by Pamela R. Dennis

​

Back Matter and Ads

​

Anchor 1
bottom of page