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• Essays on Music and History in Africa (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1971), ed. by Klaus Wachsmann (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

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• 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
• Musical Instruments and Their Homes (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1888), by Mary Elizabeth Brown and William Adams Brown
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Catalogue Descriptif et Analytique du Musée Instrumental du Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles (5 volumes, in French; 1893-1922), by Victor-Charles Mahillon
  • Volumes 1-4: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes 1-2: multiple formats at archive.org; some images may be missing
  • Volumes 3-4: multiple formats at archive.org; some images may be missing
  • Volume 5: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Catalogue de la Bibliothèque et des Instruments de Musique de Feu M. Ch. Edm. H. de Coussemaker (in French; Brussels: F.J. Olivier, 1877), contrib. by Charles Edmond Henri de Coussemaker
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images in Spain

• How to Tell the Nationality of Old Violins (second and enlarged edition; 1901), by Balfour and Co. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ancient Hawaiian Music (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 29; Honolulu: The Museum, 1926), by Helen H. Roberts (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)

• 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)

• Music Technology (British magazine, 1986-1993) (partial serial archives)
• Electronics and Music Maker (British magazine, 1981-1986) (partial serial archives)

• Advanced Exercises for the Violin (New York: G. Schirmer, c1912), by Franz Kneisel (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)
• Scale and Chord Exercises for the Violin (Boston: Boston Music Co., c1917), by Eugene W. Ritter and Albert Stoessel (page images at HathiTrust; pages may be in reverse order)
• La Technique Superieure de l'Archet, Pour Violon (in French; Paris and New York, Salabert, 1916), by Lucien Capet, contrib. by Henry Expert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Art of Studying R. Kreutzer's Etudes: 412 Examples, Compiled According to the Advise of the Author for Violin (in English, German, and French; New York and Boston: C. Fischer, c1898), by L. Massart, ed. by Gustav Saenger, contrib. by Rodolphe Kreutzer (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)

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

• 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

• 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
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Monografia dell'Organo, e Cronologia Biografica dei Più Celebri Fabbricanti d'Organo, Toscani e Italiani: Cenno Storico (in Italian; Florence: Tip. della SS. Concezione di R. Ricci, 1880), by Fabio Pucci
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Organ (partial serial archives)
• The Diapason (partial serial archives)

• 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

• Les Raisons des Forces Mouuantes Avec Diverses Machines Tant Utilles Que Plaisantes: Aus Quelles Sont Adioints Plusieurs Desseings de Grotes et Fontaines (in French; Frankfurt: I. Norton, 1615), by Salomon de Caus (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Theory and Practice of Pianoforte Building (New York: E. L. Bill, ca. 1906), by William Braid White (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• Monografia dell'Organo, e Cronologia Biografica dei Più Celebri Fabbricanti d'Organo, Toscani e Italiani: Cenno Storico (in Italian; Florence: Tip. della SS. Concezione di R. Ricci, 1880), by Fabio Pucci
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Violins and Violin Makers: Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, Their Followers and Imitators, to the Present Time; With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin (London: Longman and Co.; Sheffield: J. Pearce, Jr., 1866), by Joseph Pearce (Gutenberg text)

• Selmer Band Instrument Repairing Manual (first edition; Elkhart, IN: H. and A. Selmer Inc., c1939), by Erick D. Brand (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
  • 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)

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