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• Le clavecin dans l'œuvre de J.-S. Bach. (Édition Henn, 1921), by Edmond Rœthlisberger and Verein schweizerischer fonkünstler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tschudi, the harpsichord maker (E. P. Dutton & co., 1913), by William Dale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Makers of the harpsichord and clavichord, 1440 to 1840. (Macmillan, 1956), by Donald H. Boalch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zu "Virginal" und "Dietrichs erster ausfahrt". (Selbstverlag des gymnasiums, 1901), by Justus von Lunzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Abhandlung über Klavier-Saiten-Instrumente insonderheit der Forte-Pianos und Flügel, deren Ankauf, Beurtheilung, Behandlung, Erhaltung und Stimmung ... (B.F. Voigt, 1843), by Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Thon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tschudi, the harpsichord maker (Constable and company ltd., 1913), by William Dale (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les clavecinistes de 1637 à 1790. Histoire du clavecin, portraits et biographies des célèbres clavecinistes, avec exemples et notes sur le style et l'exécution de leurs œuvres ... (Heugel & cie, 1867), by Amédée Méreaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gioacchino Rossini a Lugo e il cembalo del suo maestro Malerbi. (G. Federici, 1902), by Tancredi Mantovani (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical pianos, harpsichords & clavichords. (Pico Rivera, Calif., 1963), by Norman Elwood Michel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Harpsichords and Clavichords, by Cynthia A. Hoover (Gutenberg ebook)

• Harpsichord regulating and repairing (s.n. ;, 1963), by Frank Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to build a baroque concert harpsichord. (Pageant Press., 1954), by Richard Allen Schulze (page images at HathiTrust)
• The one-keyboarded clavicytherium of the Kraus Collection in Florence (Salvatore Landi, 1910), by Alessandro Kraus (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)

• 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)

• Historical pianos, harpsichords & clavichords. (Pico Rivera, Calif., 1963), by Norman Elwood Michel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Principes du Clavecin. Avec vingt planches. (Forni, 1971), by Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les principes du clavecin. (Genève, Minkoff Reprints, 1972), by Michel de Saint-Lambert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les principes du clavecin : contenant une explication exacte de tout ce qui concerne la tablature & le clavier : avec des remarques necessaires pour l'intelligence de plusieurs difficultées de la musique (Christophe Ballard, 1702), by Michel de Saint-Lambert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Presenting new and pleasant lessons for the virginals or harpsycon (Cornetto-Verlag, 2000), by John Playford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Il Transilvano (A. Forni, 1997), by Girolamo Diruta and Luisa Cervelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Girolamo Diruta's Transilvano : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Orgel- und Klavierspiels im 16. Jahrhundert (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1893), by Carl Krebs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les principes du clavecin : contenant une explication exacte de tout ce qui concerne la tablature & le clavier : avec des remarques necessaires pour l'intelligence de plusieurs difficultées de la musique (Christophe Ballard, 1702), by Michel de Saint-Lambert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Principes du clavecin. (Haode et Spener, 1756), by Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'art de toucher le clavecin (Amigon, 1972), by François Couperin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• L'antica mvsica ridotta alla moderna prattica, con la dichiaratione, et con gli essempi de i tre generi, con le loro spetie, et con l'inventione di vno nvovo stromento, nelqvale si contiene tvtta la perfetta mvsica, con molti segreti mvsicali. Nuouamente mess'in luce. (A. Barre, 1555), by Nicola Vicentino (page images at HathiTrust)

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• 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)
• Istoriia fortepiano v sviazi s istoriei fortepiannoi virtuoznosti i literatury, s izobrazheniiami starinnykh instrumentov. (Muzykalʹnaia torgovlia Iurgensona, 1896), by Rostislav Genika (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Neuklaviatur, ihre Vortheile gegenüber den Nachtheilen der alten; ein Aufruf zur Beherzigung an alle Musiker und Dilettanten, Klavier-Lehrer und Fabrikanten. (Hothan, 1875), by Heinrich Josef Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)

• Descrizione della nuova tastiera cromatica ed esposizione del nuovo sistema di scrittura musicale. (Tipografia di Roma, 1880), by Bartolomeo Grassi-Landi (page images at HathiTrust)

• A new fingering notation for keyboard music (The Author, 1933), by William Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• Historical pianos, harpsichords & clavichords. (Pico Rivera, Calif., 1963), by Norman Elwood Michel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Klavierschule, oder Anweisung zum Klavierspielen für Lehrer und Lernende : mit kritischen Anmerkungen (Auf kosten des verfassers, in kommission bey Schwickert in Leipzig [etc.], 1962), by Daniel Gottlob Türk (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The complete melodeon instructor, in seven parts. Designed as a thorough instruction book for the melodeon, seraphine, eolican, melopean, organ, or any similar instrument. (O. Ditson, 1853), by John Zundel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historical pianos, harpsichords & clavichords. (Pico Rivera, Calif., 1963), by Norman Elwood Michel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Harpsichords and Clavichords, by Cynthia A. Hoover (Gutenberg ebook)

• Pulpits, lecterns, and organs in English churches. (H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1915), by J. Charles Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The organ as musical medium (Coleman-Ross Co., 1962), by John Fesperman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bericht über die Freiburger Tagung für deutsche Orgelkunst vom 27. bis 30. Juli 1926 (Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1926), by Freiburger Tagung für deutsche Orgelkunst (1926), Karl Matthaei, and Wilibald Gurlitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les organistes (H. Laurens, 1923), by Félix Raugel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The organ, its history and construction (R. Cocks;, 1870), by E. J. Hopkins and Edward F. Rimbault (page images at HathiTrust)
• The organ, its history and construction : a comprehensive treatise of the structure + capabilities of the organ, with specifications and suggestive details for instruments of all sizes. Intended as a handbook for the organist and the amateur (Robert Cocks, 1877), by E. J. Hopkins and Edward F. Rimbault (page images at HathiTrust)
• The temple of tone; a disquisition on the scientific and artistic tonal appointment and control of concert-room, church, and theater organs (J. Fischer & bro., 1925), by George Ashdown Audsley and T. Scott Buhrman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The organ in France : a study of its mechanical construction, tonal characteristics, and literature, with suggestions for the registration of French organ music upon American instruments (The Boston Music Co., 1917), by Wallace Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay upon the sacred use of organs, in Christian assemblies : Proving, that it was peculiar to the Jewish church; is no where enjoyned in the New Testament; no [!] received into the primitive church: but first introduced by Pope Vitalian: And is therefore deservedly banished the most part of Protestant churches ... And answering the arguments usually adduced by Papists and formalists for its defence ... (Printed anno, 1713) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of musical statistics ... (Boston Musical Bureau, 1902), by Boston Musical Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musica mechanica organoedi. Berlin, 1768. (Bärenreiter, 1931), by Jakob Adlung, Christhard Mahrenhols, and Johann Lorenz Albrecht (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An explanation of the organ stops with hints for effective combinations (K. Paul, Trench & Co., 1888), by Carl Locher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Orgel : ihre Geschichte und ihr Bau (Verlags-institut, R. Kühn, 1895), by Otto Wangemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'orgue moderne : les jeux de l'orgue, le mécanismo et les combinaisons, exemples de registration, registration ancienne. l'orgue et l'orchestre, esthétique, etc., suivi d'un supplément sur l'orgue expressif ou harmonium (C. Delagrave, 1913), by Alexandre Cellier and Louis Vierne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The organ and its masters; a short account of the most celebrated organists of former days, as well as some of the more prominent organ virtuosi of the present time, together with a brief sketch of the development of organ construction, organ music, and organ playing (L. C. Page & Company, 1903), by Henry Charles Lahee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un tratado de canto de organo (siglo XVI) : manuscrito en la Biblioteca Nacional de Paris (R. Hermanos, 1913), by Henri Collet and Bibliothèque nationale (France) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Orgel (J.J. Weber, 1927), by Gotthold Frotscher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kurze Beschreibung der einzelnen Theile der Kirchenorgel, ihr Bau und innere Einrichtung; dann die Orgelrevision und Orgelreparatur, nebst geeigneten Bauenwürfen für Orgeln in kleinen und grossen Kirchen mit beigefügter Kostenberechnung. Ein nothwendiges Handbüchlein für Gemeinde-und Kirchenverwaltungen, Pfarrer, Chordirigenten, Organisten, Schullehrer und Anfänger in der Orgelbaukunst. (B. Schmid Buchhandlung, 1848), by Donat Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Luister van het orgel : of Naauwkeurige aanwijzinge, hoe men door eene gepaste registreering en geschikte bespeeling, de voortreffelijke hoedanigheden en verwonderswaardige vermogens van een kerk- of huisorgel in staat is te vortoonen (J.A.H. Wagenaar, 1945), by Joachim Hess and Lambert E. Erné (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The organ fifty years hence ; a study of its development in the light of its past history and present tendencies. (W. Reeves, 1908), by Francis Burgess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les jeux d'orgue et leurs timbres : leurs combinaisons et les phénomènes acoustiques qu'ils présentent (Librairie Fischbacher, 1909), by Carl Locher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dictionary of organs and organists (G.A. Mate, 1912), by Frederick W. Thornsby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Klavier, Orgel und Harmonium : das Wesen der Tasteninstrumente (B.G. Teubner, 1910), by Oskar Bie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A statement of the proceedings of the Presbytery of Glasgow, : relative to the use of an organ in St. Andrew's Church, in the public worship of God. : To which is annexed, an address to the reverend judicatories of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; by a lay member. (Printed for the publishers; and sold by D. Hogan. J. Anderson, printer., 1821), by Church of Scotland. Presbytery of Glasgow, David Hogan, J. Anderson, J. Mc, and Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (page images at HathiTrust)
• My thoughts on music and musicians (Chapman and Hall, 1892), by H. Heathcote Statham (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'orgue ancien et moderne; traité historique, théorique et pratique de l'orgue et de son jeu. (J. van In & cie, 1887), by Hilaire Vital Couwenbergh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of the organ : organ registers, their timbres, combinations, and acoustic phenomena (E. P. Dutton & co., 1914), by Carl Locher and Claude P. Landi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A handbook of the organ. (Augener & Co., 1897), by John Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'orgue, sa connaissance, son administration et son jeu (Vagner, 1862), by Joseph Régnier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Organ harmonies for the Gregorian psalm tones (T. Bosworth, 1871), by Arthur Henry Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Syntagmatis musici (Holwein, 1619), by Michael Praetorius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theory and practice of just intonation : with a view to the abolition of temperament : as illustrated by the description and use of the enharmonic organ, presenting the power of executing with the simple ratios in twenty keys, with a correction for changes of temperature, built by Messrs. Robson ... for the exhibition of 1851, and an appendix, tracing the identity of design with the enharmonic of the ancients. (Effingham Wilson, 1850), by T. Perronet Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The organ and church music : two discourses delivered in Harvard Church, Charlestown, September 26, 1852 (Crosby, Nichols, 1852), by George Edward Ellis and Boston Harvard Church (Charlestown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Orgel : ihr Bau, ihre Geschichte und Behandlung (C. Merseburger, 1898), by Franz Ludwig Schubert and Rudolf Schwartz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Organ-stops and their artistic registration : names, forms, construction, tonalities, and offices in scientific combination (The H. W. Gray co., sole agents for Novello & co., ltd., 1921), by George Ashdown Audsley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das klavier. (P. Cassirer, 1921), by Oskar Bie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lettre sur un orgue, construit d'apráes de nouvelles combinaisons de mâecanique et de facture : a M*** (Chez Porthmann, imprimeur ordinaire de S.A.I. et R. Madame, rue Neuve des Petits-Champs, práes le Ministáere des Finances :, 1806), by M. V***, Victor Desenne, Jules Porthmann, and Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pipe organs and parts thereof. Report to the President on the differences in costs of production of pipe organs and parts thereof, in the United States and in the principal competing country, as ascertained pursuant to the provisions of sections 336 of title III of the Tariff act of 1930. With appendix: (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1931), by United States Tariff Commission and United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dictionary of the organ; organ registers, their timbres, combinations, and acoustic phenomena. (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1914), by Carl Locher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hamilton's catechism of the organ : revised, corrected, and enlarged, with an historical introduction and a list of the principal metropolitan, country, and foreign organs (R. Cocks, 1842), by James Alexander Hamilton and Joseph Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Syntagma: II. Teil, Von den Instrumenten. Wolfenbüttel, 1618. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1894), by Michael Praetorius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musica mechanica organoedi. Das ist: Gründlicher Unterricht von der Struktur, Gebrauch und Erhaltung, &c. der Orgeln, Clavicymbel, Clavichordien und anderer Instrumente, in so fern einem Organisten von solchen Sachen etwas zu wissen nöhtig ist. (F. W. Birnstiel, 1768), by Jakob Adlung, Johann Friedrich Agricola, and Johann Lorenz Albrecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Connaissance pratique de la facture des grandes orgues. Ouvrage indispensable à ceux qui sont chargés de l'acquisition d'un orgue ou de son entretien. (Wesmael-Charlier, 1875), by Louis Girod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erklärung der Orgel-Register und ihrer Klangfarben (Nydegger & Baumgart, 1896), by Carl Locher (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the position of organs in churches (s.n., 1886]., 1886), by Frederick A. Gore Ouseley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The organ and its position in musical art : a book for musicians and amateurs (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910), by H. Heathcote Statham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur lehr' und zur wehr, über und gegen die kirchliche orgel im jüdischen gottesdienste. (Nathansen & Lamm, 1904), by Abraham Berliner, David Oppenheim, Michael Sachs, and Aaron Ackermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Orgel in der Synagoge : eine Erörterung (Wilh. Jacobsohn, 1863), by David ben Menahem Mendel Deutsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of organs and organists (G. A. Mate, 1921), ed. by Frederick W. Thornsby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American organ : a short account of its construction and qualities, and a descriptive list of the various styles. Cory brothers. (The Smith American organ company, 1872), by Smith American Organ Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The organ and its masters. (Page, 1902), by Henry Charles Lahee (page images at HathiTrust)
• I registri dell'organo, con ispeciale riguardo al differente loro timbro di voce e relativi fenomeni acustici ad uso degli organisti ed organari. Prima edizione italiana-versione dall'originale tedesco (Ulrico Hoepli, 1907), by Carl Locher, Vittorio Hainisch, and Ernesto Locher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Orgel-Register und ihre Klangfarben : sowie die damit verwandten akustischen Erscheinungen und wirksamen Mischungen : ein Handbuch für Organisten. (E. Baumgart, 1904), by Carl Locher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Orgelbau, Orgelton und Orgelspiel (W. Stumpf, 1910), by A. Grosse-Weischede (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Seven generations in the building of pipe organs. (Kilgen Organ Co., 1951), by Kilgen Organ Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The organ, its history and construction (R. Cocks;, 1870), by E. J. Hopkins and Edward F. Rimbault (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ripon cathedral organ; a short history and description, including miscellaneous notes from the Cathedral records ... (Taylor, 1926), by Charles H. Moody (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The organ at Liverpool Cathedral : a full account of this great and worthy instrument which has 5 manuals and 168 speaking stops and many contrivances for their use, with the specification set out in clear print and 9 plate illustrations ("Musical opinion, ", 1926), by R. Meyrick-Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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