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• Class Piano (Bloomington, IN and London: Indiana University Press, c1969), by Margaret Starr McLain (HTML at Indiana)

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• Theory and Practice of Pianoforte Building (New York: E. L. Bill, ca. 1906), by William Braid White (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on the Art of Pianoforte Construction (London and Woking: Printed for the author by Unwin Bros., Ltd., 1916), by S. Wolfenden
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Pianoforte: Its Origin, Progress, and Construction (with a selection of specimens of music; London: R. Cocks and Co., 1860), by Edward F. Rimbault (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Gibson Upright (1919), by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson (Gutenberg text)

• The Pianoforte: Its Origin, Progress, and Construction (with a selection of specimens of music; London: R. Cocks and Co., 1860), by Edward F. Rimbault (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fundamentals of Piano Practice (electronic edition, c2009), by Chuan C. Chang (PDF with commentary at pianopractice.org)
• The Aesthetics of Pianoforte-Playing (translated from the third German edition; New York: G. Schirmer, 1907), by Adolf Kullak, ed. by Hans Bischoff, trans. by Theodore Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe Über den Unterricht auf dem Pianoforte vom Anfange bis zur Ausbildung als Anhang zu Jeder Clavierschule (in German; Vienna: A. Diabelli, ca. 1839?), by Carl Czerny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Master Rules for Successful Piano Practice (Philadelphia: T. Presser Co., c1910), ed. by James Francis Cooke, contrib. by Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Amy Fay, John J. Hattstaedt, Emil Liebling, Louis G. Heinze, Perlee V. Jervis, Ernest R. Kroeger, Alexander Lambert, B. J. Lang, F. H. Shepard, William H. Sherwood, Marie von Unschuld, Charles E. Watt, Leopold Winkler, Francis L. York, J. De Zielinski, Robert Schumann, and Ernest Lent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern Masters of the Keyboard (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1926), by Harriette Brower (page images at HathiTrust)
• Piano Mastery, Second Series: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers (first series; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1917), by Harriette Brower (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers (first series; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1915), by Harriette Brower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Les Rythmes du Regard et la Dissociation des Doigts (in French; Paris: Lib. Fischbacher, 1906), by Marie Jaëll
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Pianolist: A Guide for Pianola Players (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1907), by Gustav Kobbé (Gutenberg text)

• Phonophotography in Folk Music: American Negro Songs in New Notation (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1928), by Milton Metfessel, contrib. by Carl E. Seashore (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Sight-Reading for Guitar: The Keep Going Method (c2020), by Chelsea Green (multiple formats with video and commentary at rebus.community)

• A Practical Method for Self Instruction on the Ukulele (9th edition; San Francisco: Sherman, Clay and Co., c1914), by N. B. Bailey
  • multiple formats at Google
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• A Practical Method for Self Instruction on the Ukulele (10th edition; San Francisco: Sherman, Clay and Co., c1914), by N. B. Bailey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

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

• A Method for Pipe Organ: A Series of One Hundred Graded Lessons in Two Volumes (Cincinnati et al.: J. Church Co., c1917), by Clarence Eddy
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
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  • page images at HathiTrust

• Manual of Bel Canto (New York: Coward-McCann, c1959), by Ida Franca (page images at HathiTrust)
• Montell Vocal Technique (Miami: Montell Foundation, c1950), by Marjorie Montell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Your Voice: Applied Science of Vocal Art, Singing and Speaking (New York and Chicago: Pitman Pub. Corp., c1945), by Douglas Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte e Fisiologia del Canto (in Italian; Milan et al.: G. Ricordi, 1876), by E. Delle Sedie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caruso's Method of Voice Production: The Scientific Culture of the Voice (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1922), by P. Mario Marafioti (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Garcia's New Treatise on the Art of Singing: A Compendious Method of Instruction, With Examples and Exercises for the Cultivation of the Voice (revised edition; Boston: O. Ditson company; et al., ca. 1870), by Manuel Garcia (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Modern Italian Method of Singing; With a Variety of Progressive Examples, and Thirty Six Solfeggi (London: Printed by Rt. Birchall, ca. 1795), by Giuseppe Aprile (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Art of Singing (revised edition; New York: G. Schirmer, c1890), by Francesco Lamperti, trans. by J. C. Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)