Campbell, Murray.

Musical instruments : history, technology and performance of instruments of Western music / Murray Campbell, Clive Greated, Arnold Myers. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006. - ix, 510 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Originally published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sounds and sweet airs -- Family resemblances -- Woodwind instruments with reeds -- The flute family -- Bugles and horns -- Trumpets and trombones -- Percussion instruments -- Stringed instruments played with a bow -- Plucked and hammered stringed instruments -- Clavichord and harpsichord -- The pianoforte -- The pipe organ -- Electracoustic, electromechanical, and electronic instruments -- Appendices. 1. Table of pitches and frequencies -- 2. Keywork tables for typical woodwinds -- 3. Brass instrument sizes.

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Musical instruments.
Musical instruments--History.
Musical instruments--Construction.

ML460 / .C35 2006