Musical instruments -- United States

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• Musical instruments -- North America
• United States

• American Musical Instruments in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York et al.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1985), by Laurence Libin (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Artist's Technique of Violin Playing: A New Scientific Method for Obtaining, in the Shortest Possible Time, an Absolute Mastery of the Higher Technical Difficulties of the Left Hand and of the Bow (with parallel texts in English, French, and German; op. 12; New York: C. Fischer, c1921), by Demetrius Constantine Dounis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eichberg's Complete Method for the Violin (revised edition; Boston: White, Smith and Company, c1879), by Julius Eichberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Artist's Technique of Violin Playing: A New Scientific Method for Obtaining, in the Shortest Possible Time, an Absolute Mastery of the Higher Technical Difficulties of the Left Hand and of the Bow (with parallel texts in English, French, and German; op. 12; New York: C. Fischer, c1921), by Demetrius Constantine Dounis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hammond as in Organ: The Laurens Hammond Story (c1974), by Stuyvesant Barry (illustrated HTML with commentary at thehammondorganstory.com)

• Magic Music From the Telharmonium (Metuchen, NJ and London: Scarecrow Press, 1995), by Reynold Weidenaar (multiple formats at Google)

• School of Organ Playing: Based Upon the Course of Instruction of the Schola Cantorum, Paris (op. 31; Boston et al.: Boston Music Co., c1921), by Edward Shippen Barnes
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• School of Organ Playing: Based Upon the Course of Instruction of the Schola Cantorum, Paris (op. 31; Boston et al.: Boston Music Co., c1921), by Edward Shippen Barnes
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• School of Organ Playing: Based Upon the Course of Instruction of the Schola Cantorum, Paris (op. 31; Boston et al.: Boston Music Co., c1921), by Edward Shippen Barnes
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Art and Science of Change Ringing (second edition; London: J. Warner and Sons and McCorquodale and Co., 1879), by William Banister
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Change-Ringing Disentangled: With Hints on the Direction of Befries, on the Management of Bells, Etc., Etc., Etc. (second edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1880), by Woolmore Wigram (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tintinnalogia: or, The Art of Ringing (London: Printed for F. S., 1671), by Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman (Gutenberg text)

• Les Cloches d'Anvers: Les Fondeurs Anversois (in French; Anvers: impr. Vueve de Backer, 1899), by Fernand Donnet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Campanology, Europe 1945-47: A Report on the Condition of Carillons on the Continent of Europe as a Result of the Recent War; on the Sequestration and Melting Down of Bells by the Central Powers; and on Research into the Tonal Qualities of Bells Made Accessible by War-Time Dislodgment (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1948), by Percival Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• Change Ringing: An Introduction to the Early Stages of the Art of Church or Hand Bell Ringing, for the Use of Beginners (second edition; London: J. Masters; Exeter: H. S. Eland, 1872), by Charles Arthur Williams Troyte
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Die Physiologie der Bogenführung auf den Streich-Instrumenten (second revised edition, in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1907), by F. A. Steinhausen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Physiologie der Bogenführung auf den Streich-Instrumenten (fourth edition, in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1920), by F. A. Steinhausen, ed. by Arnold Schering (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Die Physiologie der Bogenführung auf den Streich-Instrumenten (second revised edition, in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1907), by F. A. Steinhausen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Physiologie der Bogenführung auf den Streich-Instrumenten (fourth edition, in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1920), by F. A. Steinhausen, ed. by Arnold Schering (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Introduction to the Skill of Musick (London: John Playford, 1655), by John Playford (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• Die Italienische Lira da Braccio: Eine Kunst-Historische Studie zur Geschichte der Violine (in German; Mostar: V. Radovic, 1892), by A. Hajdecki
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • PDF at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Violin and Its Music, by George Hart (PDF at Case Western)

• Die Italienische Lira da Braccio: Eine Kunst-Historische Studie zur Geschichte der Violine (in German; Mostar: V. Radovic, 1892), by A. Hajdecki
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • PDF at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Violin and Its Music, by George Hart (PDF at Case Western)

• An Introduction to the Skill of Musick (London: John Playford, 1655), by John Playford (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• Robert Fripp: From King Crimson to Guitar Craft (1990), by Eric Tamm (HTML and zipped Word files with commentary at erictamm.com)

• Varietie of Lute-Lessons (London: Thomas Adams, 1610), by Robert Dowland (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo, by Patrick Costello (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Schoole of Musicke (London: Thomas Este, 1603), by Thomas Robinson (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo, by Patrick Costello (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A New Booke of Tabliture, Containing Sundrie Easie and Familiar Instructions (1596), by William Barley (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• Foundation to Cornet Playing: An Elementary Method (New York et al.: C. Fischer, c1914), by Edwin Franko Goldman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Adolphe Sax and his Saxophone (New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1949), by Léon Kochnitzky (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)

• A Comprehensive View of our Country and Its Resources (1876), by James Dabney McCabe (page images at MOA)

• Tax Expenditures: The Hidden Entitlements (second edition; Washington: Citizens for Tax Justice, 1996), by Robert S. McIntyre (HTML and PDF at ctj.org)

• America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How to Fix Them (Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, ca. 2002), ed. by John F. Lehman and Harvey Sicherman (PDF with commentary at fpri.org)
• Conventional Coercion Across the Spectrum of Operations: The Utility of U.S. Military Forces in the Emerging Security Environment (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2002), by David E. Johnson, Karl P. Mueller, and William H. Taft (PDF files at rand.org)
• Hearings, Relating to H.R. 959, Amending the Internal Security Act of 1950 (Obstruction of Armed Forces) (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• American Men of Action (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Annie Nelles: or, The Life of a Book Agent (Cincinnati: The author, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond (frame-dependent page images at Harvard)
• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)
• Cambridge Sketches, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
• Critics and Crusaders (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1948), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1947), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous Americans of Recent Times (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871), by James Parton (page images at MOA)
• The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story (1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (1871), by James Dabney McCabe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Men of Our Day (Philadelphia et al.: Ziegler and McCurdy, c1872), by L. P. Brockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Men of Our Day (from the 1872 edition; preface and other supplementary material omitted), by L. P. Brockett (HTML with commentary at all-biographies.com)
• Men of our Times: or, Leading Patriots of the Day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co; et al., 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man, by Briton Hammon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Pioneers of Freedom (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929), by McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (first edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (second edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1857), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Success Factor, by Fred Good (HTML at homestead.com)
• With Americans of Past and Present Days, by J. J. Jusserand (HTML at Bartleby)

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