The Piano Book
By Larry Fine.

The Piano Book is the standard consumer reference in the piano business in the United States and Canada and the only book of its kind. It contains:
-Exceptionally candid brand-by-brand reviews of new and recently-manufactured pianos
-Sales gimmicks to watch out for--and the real differences in piano quality and features
-How to negotiate the best deal
-Tips on finding, inspecting, appraising, and buying a used piano
-Special section on buying an older Steinway or Mason & Hamlin
-Piano moving, storage, tuning, and servicing
-How pianos work

Annual Supplement to the Piano Book 2007-2008
By Larry Fine.
This Annual Supplement to The Piano Book fills that gap by supplying "list prices" for most piano brands and models, plus advice on how to estimate actual "street prices." Updated general information about manufacturers and models is also included.
-List Prices For More Than 2,500 New Piano Models
-Advice on How to Estimate Actual "Street Prices"
-Updated General Information on Manufacturers and Models

Tipbook Piano: The Best Guide to Your Instrument
by Hugo Pinksterboer

Thorough and convenient guide for pianists and consumers who want to get the most out of their existing instrument, or in choosing a new one. The Tipbook covers topics such as selecting and play-testing pianos, player pianos and related instruments, maintenance and the basics on tuning, as well as a pianist's glossary. Written in collaboration with and proofread by musicians, teachers, technicians and other experts - for beginners, students and advanced players. Packed with valuable info in a pocket-sized book.

Piano Servicing, Tuning and Rebuilding
By Arthur A. Reblitz.

This book is the classic manual for Piano Technicians and enthusiasts the world over. Here is all the information essential to the art of restoring and maintaining a piano; from minor repairs and cleaning to major tuning and complete restoration techniques. A fine, specific reference, with hundreds of illustrations and photos.






Player Piano: Servicing and Rebuilding
By Arthur A. Reblitz.
A superb book. This is the most comprehensive book on the subject ever written. A must-read for any player-piano owner. Even if you don't intend to do restoration work yourself, you'll find this book useful and informative. Lots of illustrations and interesting historical information.

The American Reed Organ and the Harmonium: A Treatise on Its History, Restoration and Tuning, With Descriptions of Some Outstanding Collections
by Robert F. Gellerman
Covers the history, construction, manufacturing, tuning, restoration, and music of these classic American and European parlor instruments.

Art of Organ Building (Volume 1 of 2)
by George A. Audsley

The Art of Organ Voicing
by L.G. Monette

Automatic Pianos: A Collector's Guide to the Pianola, Barrel Piano, & Aeolian Orchestrelle
by Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume
This book, written by a world-renowned authority on mechanical music and its instruments, relates the development of the automatic piano from the spring-powered dulcimer-playing musical clocks of the 16th century through the once-popular barrel-playing pianos and street pianos to the great era of the Reproducing Piano that could bring a famous artist's interpretation of a musical classic into your own drawing-room. The inventors, their perpetual quest for perfection, and their successes and failures are related in this new and fully-illustrated history. Just how the automatic piano works is described in both words and the author's own clear line-drawings, together with 603 b/w and 43 full colour photos. Also, a guide to servicing, maintaining, and playing player pianos and the magnificent Aeolian Orchestrelle roll-playing reed organ is included. Illustrated appendices include a list of makers, brand-names, and a modern-day valuation guide. 8 1/2" x 11" 43 color and 603 b/w photos.

The Classical Reproducing Piano Roll: A Catalogue
by Larry Sitsky (Compiler)
Between the turn of the century and 1930, thousands of performances were produced on the reproducing piano roll, and Sitsky (composition, Canberra School of Music, Australia) does a keen job of compiling the entire repertoire of classical music available in this format. The introduction provides background information and details the technical aspects of the reproducing piano and piano role production. Volume I--Composers, shows the type and scope of repertoire performed and recorded at the time. Volume II--Pianists, gives a complete rollography of all the performers of the reproducing piano era.

The Clavichord
(Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs)
by Bernard Brauchli, Christopher Hogwood

Begins with the origin of the clavichord (Monochord) to the 19th century revival. Comes with beautiful pictures of the clavichord along with monographs. This is the most elaborate and sought out book for all clavichord enthusiasts.


Directory of Contemporary American Musical Instrument Makers
by Susan Caust Farrell

Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities: U.S. and Canada

Downright Upright
By Wayne Kelly
The fascinating history of the Canadian piano industry. It includes a buyer's guide and a Canadian piano atlas (serial numbers with corresponding dates of manufacture).

Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide
by David Rowland

Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments
by Q. David Bowers

Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments: Remarkable Music Machines and Their Stories
by Arthur A. Reblitz

The fascinating history of automatic instruments and their music, with hundreds of brilliant color photographs. These marvels of technology performed in the royal palaces of Europe, elegant drawing rooms in New York City, speakeasies in Chicago, and the saloons of the Wild West. Learn why they were as popular from the 1890s to the 1920s as the latest electronic wonders are today. Includes Music Boxes, Mechanical Organs and Pianos, Nickelodeons and Orchestrions, Violin-Playing Machines, Reproducing Pianos, Fairground Organs and more.

Encyclopedia of the Piano
by Robert Palmieri (Editor), Margaret W. Palmieri (Editor)
Performers, teachers, scholars and general readers will appreciate this in-depth review of the piano, which includes over 600 alphabetically-arranged articles written by international contributors who comment on piano history, composition problems, and key piano developments.

Gellerman's International Reed Organ Atlas
by Robert R. Gellerman, Robert F. Gellerman
Classic reference work is a must for collectors and aficionados of reed organs. Complete listing and brief history of every manufacturer of reed organs in the world. Since publication of the first edition, hundreds of new names and historical facts have come to light and are included in this revised edition. 89 illustrations. 104 photos.

Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos: A Technological History from Cristofori to the Modern Concert Grand
by Edwin M. Good
Lavishly illustrated book treats the history of the piano from its invention in 1700s to the present in terms of its technology. Looking at the technologies of design, materials, and manufacture, and focusing its description on specific existing pianos, it describes the changes in pianos from the earliest days to contemporary instruments.

A Guide to the Harpsichord
by Ann Bond
Care, maintenance & tuning of the instrument are covered here along with a discussion of articulation, ornamentation, repertoire, and performance practice.

Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire
by Maurice Hinson

The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Encyclopedia
by Igor Kipnis
Includes articles on this family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instruments builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world. It completes the three-volume Encyclopedia of Keyboard Intsruments.

The Harpsichord Owner's Guide: A Manual for Buyers and Owners
by Edward L. Kottick

A cheerful, practical, clear, concise, up-to-date guide to buying, maintaining, and tuning this instrument that includes a short history and discussion of the different types of harpsichord and their use in different kinds of music.



The History of the English Organ
by Stephen Bicknell
Highly readable and lavishly illustrated work describes the history of organs built in England from AD 900 to the present day.

A History of the Harpsichord
by Edward L. Kottick
Brings together more than 200 photographs, illustrations, and drawings of harpsichords in public museums and private collections throughout Europe the US. Edward L. Kottick draws on his extensive technical knowledge and experience as a harpsichord builder to detail the changing design, structure, and acoustics of the instrument over six centuries.

The History of the Organ in the United States
by Orpha Caroline Ochse

Keyboard Music of Black Composers: A Bibliography
by Aaron Horne (Compiler)

The Language of the Classical French Organ: A Musical Tradition Before 1800
by Fenner Douglass
This authoritative study of the French classical organ is a major source for the interpretation of early French organ music. For this new edition, the author has added a chapter on touch in early French organs and its importance for practice.

Makers of the Piano: 1820-1860
by Martha Novak Clinkscale

Overview of early pianos. Approximately 2,400 makers and manufacturers and about 2,200 pianos are listed. Of this total, about 645 are English, the majority of whom were active in London.




The Making of the Victorian Organ
by Nicholas Thistlethwaite
Between 1820 and 1870 a number of influences combined to bring about a radical transformation in the design and use of English organs. This important book provides a comprehensive survey of English organ building during these most innovative fifty years in its history. It is richly illustrated with photographs and specially drawn diagrams and contains an invaluable appendix of organ specifications. This is a documentary source book and history which will be indispensable for all those, professionals or amateurs, who have an interest in the organ.

The Manual of Harmonics
by Nicomachus, Flora R. Levin (Translator)
The first complete translation of the Pythagorean philosopher Nicomachus of Gerasa. It is a concise and well organized introduction to the study of harmonics and contains an extensive commentary which explains the principles of Pythagorean harmony.

The Modern Classical Organ: A Guide to Its Physical and Musical Structure and Performance Implications
by Thomas Donahue
Examines the functional and structural elements of organs built since the mid-1990s according to the classical principles of 16th-18th century organbuilding. The interdisciplinary approach provides interesting information for both instrument makers and musicians, and for researchers in those fields.

Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness
by Alain Danielou
Compares the basic scale structures of India, China, and ancient Greece, relating each to the philosophical worldview of its parent culture.

Music in Canada: A Research and Information Guide
by Carl Morey
Providing access to virtually any subject related to music and musicians in Canada, more than 900 annotated entries are organized under 13 topics, and indexed by author, subject, and title. Background and supplementary information and suggestions for research are presented in introductory essays.

Musical Acoustics
by Donald E. Hall
Presents a unique opportunity to see science and art working together. This book is a balanced presentation of all aspects of musical acoustics. It explains how our ears and brains interpret musical events, and connects traditional physical analyses to musical reality.

Musical Instrument Auction Price Guide
by String Letter Publishing

Musical Instrument Makers of New York: A Directory of the Eighteenth-And Nineteenth-Century Urban Craftsmen
by Nancy Groce

Music Instruments of the World
by Diagram Group (Editor)
It's the best-looking musical encyclopedia ever! Using a completely visual approach, this ultimate reference has over 4,000 drawings showcasing the evolution of instruments--and music--from primitive whistles to electric guitars. Exquisite illustrations accompany each entry, with painstaking detail and attention to structure, function, and decoration.

Musical Instruments: History, Technology and Performance of Instruments of Western Music
by Donald Murray Campbell, Clive Alan Greated, Arnold Myers
This is a comprehensive survey designed to explain how Western musical instruments work, how they developed historically, how they are manufactured, and how they are used to make music. After introducing the nature of sounds in music, and the sound production mechanisms of different families of instruments, the authors survey each family in turn, giving a description of the distinguishing acoustical features, the various forms of instruments adopted in different periods, the variety of sizes and shapes in current use, the manufacturing processes, and the playing techniques commonly used by performers. The full index and glossary also contain definitions of technical terms and notes on instruments not included in the text.

Music Reference and Research Materials
by Vincent H. Duckles, Ida Reed, Michael A. Keller
Within its 800-plus pages are descriptions of musical dictionaries and encyclopedias of all kinds, by national origin and by genre, biographical dictionaries and dictionaries of quotations, compositional devices and handbooks. Then there are the books devoted to musical histories and chronologies, guides to musicology, bibliographies of musical literature, and bibliographies of music. There are catalogs of music libraries and musical instruments, electronic information resources, and yearbooks, directories, and guides...

Musical Temperaments
by Erich Neuwirth

This multimedia product (book and CD-ROM) lets the reader investigate the mathematical foundations of musical tuning systems as theory and as audible experience. The embedded acoustical examples help to establish immediate connection between the formulas and the acoustical characteristics of different musical scales. The musical temperaments covered in the document are Pure, Pythagorean, Meantone, and Equal, the historically most important tuning systems. For each one of these temperaments the construction principles are explained in detail and with interactive visual aids...

Nickelodeon Theatres and Their Music
by Q. David Bowers
Documents the heyday of the nickelodeon (1902 to 1910) through the use of primary source material, including photographs, advertisements, trade journal excerpts, and fan magazine articles. He also focuses on the development of automatic musical instruments (elaborate forms of the player piano that could reproduce all the sounds of a large band) and the growth of the theatre organ industry.

The Organ: An Encyclopedia
by Douglas Bush
Articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world. It completes the three-volume Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments, which also includes the Piano Encyclopedia and the Harpsichord & Clavichord Encyclopedia.

Organ and Harpsichord Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog
by Adel Heinrich (Compiler)
Catalogs music for organ and harpsichord written by more than 700 women composers from 40 countries. Compiler Heinrich has expanded the organ and harpsichord repertoire to include choir and instruments accompanying organ and harpsichord. She provides detailed information about each work. In addition to biographies for each woman, Heinrich supplies listings of individual compositions, and includes descriptions and sources whenever possible.

The Oxford Dictionary of Music
by Michael Kennedy, Joyce Bourne (Editor)
The coverage continues to span musical topics of all kinds: composers (and their principal works); conductors; musical terms and forms; descriptions of musical instruments; leading orchestras and music academies around the world; and critics, journalists, and other writers on music.

The Piano: An Encyclopedia
by R. Palmieri
Performers, teachers, scholars and general readers will appreciate this in-depth review of the piano, which includes over 600 alphabetically-arranged articles written by international contributors who comment on piano history, composition problems, and key piano developments.

The Pianist's Bookshelf: A Practical Guide to Books, Videos, and Other Resources
by Maurice Hinson
Surveying nearly 700 books and videos (including some of his own materials in both formats) published since 1987, Hinson has created a unique and valuable tool for teachers, students, performers, and library materials selectors interested in current developments in piano literature.

The Pianist's Dictionary
by Maurice Hinson
An invaluable compact reference guide for every piano teacher, student and performer.

The Piano
by Phillip R. Belt & Stanley Sadie.

The New Grove Piano begins by tracing the history of the instrument from the earliest pianos of Cristofori in 1698 to the modern concert grands of today and even the 'prepared' piano of John Cage. This is followed by a chapter on piano playing (including a section on jazz piano) and a survey of pianists, with separate sections on the main national schools (Slavonic, German, French) and on living pianists, discussing their style and influence. Finally there is a chronological account of the instrument's repertory-from the Classical sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven through, the Romantic miniatures of Schumann and Brahms and the virtuoso showpieces of Liszt and Ravel, to the complex contemporary works of Boulez and Stockhausen.

Pierce Piano Atlas
Published by Larry E. Ashley
The piano industry's definitive reference on researcing the age of pianos. Includes nearly 12,000 names of piano makers, piano serial numbers, dates of manufacture, factory location and other pertinent information.

Pianos and Their Makers
by Alfred Dolge
This famous paperback, written by one of the greatest industrialists ever to be involved in piano manufacturing, tells all about the history of the piano business prior to 1911. Over 300 illustrations.

Piano Tuning: A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs
by Jerry Cree Fischer

Piano Tuning for Musicians and Teachers
by Donald W. Stauffer
This book explains a simple straight forward method of setting the basic equal temperament in tuning a piano- without higher mathematics.

Piano, the Instrument: An Annotated Bibliography
by Michiko Ishiyama Wolcott

Organized into six sections by topic: general information, history, builders and manufactures, construction, maintenance and repair, and miscellaneous subjects. The first section lists works containing general information, including but not limited to, books and articles covering a wide range of topics, introductory materials, and serial titles. The second section covers the history on piano and is arranged by country. The section on builders and manufacturers is arranged by name of builder or manufacturer. The sections on construction and maintenance are arranged by parts of the piano. The section on miscellaneous subjects includes catalogs for collections of instruments, works about pedal pianos, pianos associated with composers, selection and purchase, works intended for younger readers, and works about other miscellaneous topics not included above. Readers are referred to the subject index for further cross-referencing. Referencing literature on every aspect of the piano, this annotated bibliography will cut down on research time for scholars and students, directing them to the most relevant and useful sources. No music library should be without it.

Pianos: Care & Restoration
by Eric Smith

Player Piano Treasury: The Scrapbook History of the Mechanical Piano in America As Told in Story, Pictures, Trade Journal Articles and Advertising
by Harvey N. Roehl

Player Pianos and Music Boxes: Keys to a Musical Past
by Harvey N. Roehl

Reproducing Pianos: Past and Present
by Kent A. Holliday

The Science of Music
by Robin MacOnie
Uncovers the hidden role of musical acoustics in the formulation of key concepts of science and philosophy from ancient Greece to modern times. Underlying subjects as diverse as: Pythagoras's theorem, Plato's city state, mysteries of religion, myth, and folklore, theories of the mind, and key insights of Newton, Freud, and Einstein.

Temperament: The Idea That Solved Music's Greatest Riddle
by Stuart M. Isacoff
Involving mathematics, philosophy, aesthetics, religion, politics, and physics, Stuart Isacoff's Temperament invokes the tone of a James Burke documentary. However, the focus is not on a modern invention, but rather a modern convention: that of tuning keyboards so that every key is equally in tune--and equally out of tune.

Theory and Practice in Piano Construction
by William Braid White

Theory and Practice of Pianoforte Building
by William Braid White

Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making
by F. T. Hubbard

Tipbook: Piano - The Best Guide to Your Instrument
by Hugo Pinksterboer
A highly accessible buyer's and owner's guide for beginning and advanced pianists, covering topics such as selecting and play-testing pianos, player pianos and related instruments, maintenance and the basics on tuning, as well as the history and the family of the instrument, and a pianist's glossary.

Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning
by Jean Denis, Vincent J., Jr. Panetta (Editor)

World Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments
by Max Wade-Matthews


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