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• Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Roger Moseley (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

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• Piano keyboards, production and maintenance workers of the Buffalo Plant of Wood & Brooks Co. : report to the President on investigation no. TEA-W-33 under section 301(c)(2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. (U.S. Tariff Commission, 1971), by United States Tariff Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Geschichte der neuen chromatischen Klaviatur und Notenschrift (G. Stilke, 1877), by Otto Quantz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some questions of musical theory (W. Heffer & sons. ltd., 1926), by Wilfrid Perrett (page images at HathiTrust)

• From the hunter's bow; the history and romance of musical instruments (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1942), by Beatrice Edgerly and Boris Erich Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musical instruments (Chapman and Hall, 1875), by Carl Engel, William Maskell, and South Kensington Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• La musique (Hachette, 1878), by L. C. Colomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English instruments of music, their history and character (Methuen, 1911), by Francis W. Galpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte unserer Musikinstrumente (Quelle & Meyer, 1926), by Karl Nef (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The growth of instruments and instrumental music. (Vantage Press, 1962), by David H. Paetkau (page images at HathiTrust)
• La musique (Hachette, 1886), by L. C. Colomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of musical history (G. P. Putnam ;, 1892), by James E. Matthew (page images at HathiTrust)
• A popular history of music, musical insturments, ballet, and opera : from St. Ambrose to Mozart (H. Grevel, 1888), by James E. Matthew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur Hucbald et sur ses traités de musique, suivi de recherches sur la notation et sur les instruments de musique. (J. Techener, 1841), by Charles Edmond Henri de Coussemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber ursprung und früheste beschaffenheit unserer musikalischen instrumente ... (n.p., 1852), by Jos. L. Saalschütz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ars magna consoni et dissoni (Ex typographia Haeredum Francisci Corbelletti, 1650), by Athanasius Kircher and Jacobus Viva (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musik und Musikinstrumente im Alten Testament; eine religionsgeschichtliche Studie (J. Ricker, 1903), by Hugo Gressmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La généalogie des instruments de musique et les cycles de civilisation : étude suivie du catalogue des instruments de musique du Musée ethnographique de Genève (A. Kundig, 1919), by George Montandon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musical instruments of long ago (Minneapolis Board of Education, 1940), by Minneapolis Public Schools. Board of Education and United States. Work Projects Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De tribus generibus instrumentorum musicæ (impensis Fausti Amidei, 1742), by Francesco Bianchini (page images at HathiTrust)

• Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Thomas Patteson
  • multiple formats at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR

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

• The M. Steinert collection of keyed and stringed instruments. With various treatises on the history of these instruments, the method of playing them, and their influence on musical art. (C.F. Tretbar, 1893), by Morris Steinert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Une pièce unique du Musée Kraus de Florence (H. Morin, 1907), by Alessandro Kraus and Musée Kraus (Florence) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Italian harpsichord-building in the 16th and 17th centuries (Smithsonian Institution, 1960), by John D. Shortridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• La̓rte del clavicembalo; opera adottata nel Civico liceo musicale Benedetto Marcello di Venezia. (Fratelli Bocca, 1901), by Luigi Alberto Villanis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'arte del clavicembalo : opera adottata nel Civico liceo musicale Benedetto Marcello di Venezia. (Fratelli Bocca, 1901), by Luigi Alberto Villanis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'arte del clavicembalo. (Forni, 1969), by Luigi Alberto Villanis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries, by John D. Shortridge (Gutenberg ebook)

• Geschichte und Würdigung der Musik bei den Hebräern, im Verhältniss zur sonstigen Ausbildung dieser Kunst in alter und neuer Zeit, nebst e. Anhange über d. hebräische Orgel. (G. Fincke, 1829), by Jos. L. Saalschütz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der orgelbauer Gottfried Silbermann, ein beitrag zur geschichte des deutschen orgelbaues im zeitalter Bachs. (F. Kistner & C. F. W. Siegel, 1926), by Ernst Flade (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Orgel und klavier in der musik des 16. jahrhunderts ; ein beitrag zur geschichte der instrumentalmusik. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1910), by Otto Kinkeldey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire de l'orgue ... (Éditions des Gaules, 1924), by Louis de Bondt and René Lyr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les organistes (H. Laurens, 1923), by Félix Raugel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of the organ (W. Scott Pub. Co., 1903), by C. F. Abdy Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to the organ (Allen printing and publishing company, 1940), by Leslie Norman Leet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contemporary American organ, its evolution, design and construction (J. Fischer & bro., 1930), by William Harrison Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Organographia hildesiensis specialis, seu Celeberrimorum quorundam in urbe ac patria praecipuis autem (ut vocantur) monasteriorum ruralium ecclesiis, hujusce dioeseos hildesiensis ac vicinis aliquot locis sitorum ... observatione ac notitiâ praeprimis dignorum ... organorum succinct lustratio (Bärenreiterverlag, 1930), by Johann Hermann Biermann and Ernst Palandt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les anciens buffets d'orgues du Département de Seine-et-Marne. (Fischbacher, 1928), by Félix Raugel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La décoration artistique des buffets d'orgues. (G. van Oest, 1928), by Georges Servières (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zur geschichte des orgelspiels (M. Hesse, 1884), by August Gottfried Ritter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contemporary American organ (J. Fischer & bro., 1937), by William Harrison Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les grandes orgues des églises de Paris et du département de la Seine. (Fischbacher, 1927), by Félix Raugel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Verzameling van disposities der verschillende orgels in Nederland, benevens eene korte beschrijving van het orgel in de Groote kerk te Rotterdam met afbeelding (Corns. immig, 1887), by Marinus Hendrik van 't Kruys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Aufgabe der Orgel im Gottesdienste bis in das 18. Jahrhundert. (Verlag der Dürr'schen Buchhandlung, 1893), by Georg Rietschel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die musikalischen Instrumente in den Miniaturen des fruhen Mittelalters. : Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Musikinstrumente. I. Die Blasinstrumente. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1903), by Edward Buhle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musikalische Spicilegien : über das liturgische Drama, Orgelbau und Orgelspiel, das ausserliturgische Lied und die Instrumentalmusik des Mittelalters (L. Liepmannssohn, 1876), by Anselm Schubiger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orgel und Klavier in der Musik des 16. Jahrhunderts; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Instrumentalmusik (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1910), by Otto Kinkeldey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The influence of the organ in history. (W. Reeves, 1900), by Dudley Buck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les orgues de l'abbaye de Saint-Mihiel. Anciennes orgues de la région meusienne. (L'Écho musical, 1919), by Félix Raugel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cenni sull'origine e sul progresso della musica liturgica : con appendice intorno all'origine dell'organo (Le Monnier, 1897), by Federico Consolo and Johann Reuchlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Organiste (Encyclopédie-Roret :, 1905), by Georges Schmitt, Joseph Guédon, and Charles Simon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die orgel, ihre Erfindung und ihre Geschichte bis zur Karolingerzeit. (Coopenrathsche Buchhandlung, 1905), by Hermann Degering (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Organs and organ building: a treatise on the history and construction of the organ, from its origin to the present day, with important specifications. ("The Bazaar" Office, 1881), by C. A. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'organo nelle sue attinenze colla musica sacra. (Appunti di storia organzria) ... (G. Ricordi & C., 1889), by Lodovico Alberti (page images at HathiTrust)
• The organ, its history and construction : a comprehensive treatise on the structure and capabilities of the organ, with specifications and suggestive details for instruments of all sizes ... (R. Cock ;, 1855), by E. J. Hopkins and Edward F. Rimbault (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Aufgabe der Orgel im Gottesdienste bis in das achtzehnte Jahrhundert. (A. Edelmann, 1892), by Georg Rietschel and Universität Leipzig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Metropolitan churches : representative churches of New York City with facts pertaining to their history and the organs they use. (J.H. & C.S. Odell & Co., 1896), by J. H. & C. S. Odell & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Duo-art Aeolian pipe-organ (Aeolian Co., 1921), by George Ashdown Audsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evolution of the modern organ and its control : a personal record of fifty years of observation and experiment, with some suggestions and conclutions (William Clowes, 1919), by Johann Michael Becker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lectures (printed by C. Jaques & Son, 1901), by Royal College of Organists (Great Britain), Philip Armes, and J. W. Hinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• La facture d'orgues au XVIe siècle (L. Moreau, 1889), by Jules Planté (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief history of the organ in the chapel of Trinity college; contributed to the Trident, June and December 1890, by Gerard F. Cobb ... (Printed by J. Webb & Co., 1891), by Gerard F. Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saggio di una storia dell'arte organaria in Italia nei tempi moderni (A. Forni, 1983), by Antonio Bonuzzi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The early English organ builders and their works : from the fifteenth century to the period of the great rebellion, an unwritten chapter in the history of the organ. A lecture delivered before the College of organists, Nov. 15, 1864. (R. Cocks & co., 1865), by Edward F. Rimbault (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beschreibung der grossen Orgel der Marienkirche (Robert Franz, 1846), by Ferdinand Gottfried Baake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der Orgel und der Orgelbaukunst : von den ersten Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (Sändig, 1976), by Otto Wangemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gedanken über die grossen Orgeln, die aber deswegen keine Wunderwerke find. : bey Gelegenheit der im Jahre 1761 durch Herrn Johann Nicolaus Rittern, Hochfürstl. Brandenb. Kulmbachif. privil. Orgelmacher zu Hof, erbauten neuen Orgel zu Nemmersdorf (Joh. Gottlob Immanuel, 1762), by Johann Adam Jakob Ludwig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musikalische Spicilegien über das liturgische Drama, Orgelbau und Orgelspiel, das ausserliturgische Lied und die Instrumentalmusik des Mittelalters. (L. Liepmannssohn, 1876), by Anselm Schubiger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Organ : its history and construction : preceded by an entirely new history ... (London : [publisher not identified], 1855., 1855), by E. J. Hopkins and Edward F. Rimbault (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der Orgel und der Orgelbaukunst : von den ersten Anfängen bis zur Gengenwart (Demmin : Verlag von A. Frantz, 1881., 1881), by Otto Wangemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Influence of the Organ in History: Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University, by Dudley Buck (Gutenberg ebook)

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