Product Description: This is a single-volume reissue of the catalogues of keyboard and non-keyboard musical instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum. It covers all the musical instruments in the V&A's collection, reissued with additional entries covering three important recent acquisitions of keyboard instruments...read more

Product Description: This well-researched, famous history by a noted authority traces evolution of trumpets, trombones, bugles, cornets, French horns, tubas, and other brass wind instruments. Corrected and updated by the author, this book remains an indispensable resource for any brass player or music historian...read more

Product Description: This superior study by a leading authority is considered the definitive work on woodwinds. The two-part survey combines a discussion of design and construction with a detailed history of the evolution of instruments from earliest times to the present...read more