Music Books

In the mid '50s, Ted McCarty, Gibson's new president, set out to further set Gibson apart from Fender. He wanted to create new designs that did not conform to the basic guitar shape. He wanted somethi...

It is now more than 40 years since Mike Longworth published his seminal book on the Martin Guitar Company. It was Mike's book that stirred Greig Hutton's original interest in Martin guitars and it put...

The Guide gathers input from 35 of the world's foremost expert dealers, each of whom brings decades of experience in the business. That's one of the many reasons it's the most-trusted source for value...

Introduced by Gibson in the 1930s, the ES (Electric Spanish) series would transform the role of the guitar in the world of the big bands and jazz groups. With amplification, the guitarist could solo a...

This book takes the reader inside of the company, the factories, the processes, and the thinking, in building the brand name and tradition that Leo Fender started in 1946. A behind-the-scenes look at...

By popular demand, the series continues with some of the greatest photos of these Gibson favorites ever published. Slash and Albert Molinaro join the authors again along with Billy Gibbons' Pretty Wom...

Designed for music professionals and students, this extensive resource is the definitive guide for over 500 instruments, including over 190 world music instruments. Music industry veteran, Robert Born...

The Bass Clarinet: A Personal History by Harry Sparnaay, 258 pages + Online Audio. Third edition. Harry Sparnaay, the bass clarinettist who has been often featured as prominent soloist, launches the m...

The main purpose of the family tree is to give a clear picture of the history of the four brass instrument families of cornets, trumpets, trombones and horns. And it does so since the early Middle Age...

This trilingual dictionary is aimed at all those who deal with brass instruments internationally. I have tried to take into account the terminology of various fields: Musicologists, museum curators, c...

This trilingual dictionary is aimed at all those who deal with brass instruments internationally. I have tried to take into account the terminology of various fields: Musicologists, museum curators, c...

Anton Weidinger has always been held to be the inventor of the keyed trumpet. This assumption probably derives from Wilhelm Schneider, Historisch-technische Beschreibung der musikalischen Instrumente...

Anton Weidinger has always been held to be the inventor of the keyed trumpet. This assumption probably derives from Wilhelm Schneider, Historisch-technische Beschreibung der musikalischen Instrumente...

Unrecognized by most historians and unknown to Americans, the United States had a thriving musical instrument industry in the middle years of the 19th century.

Unrecognized by most historians and unknown to Americans, the United States had a thriving musical instrument industry in the middle years of the 19th century.

Syntagma musicum, Teil 2

Dulcimer BauplanBauplan 1:1 (70cm x 104 cm) und Bauanleitung auf einem grossartigen Plan.MateriallisteBenötigte WerkzeugeWeitere HilfsmittelSchablonenDetailierte Beschreibung der ArbeitsgängeSpielferi...

Chitarre Ramírez: la storia è un racconto appassionato e documentato della più celebre dinastia di liutai spagnoli. Attraverso le parole di José Ramírez III, e le testimonianze di Amalia e Cristina Ra...

Mach mit! Das Heft für Kinder: Singen, spielen, malen, basteln und raten

Das Ideenbuch für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer. Singen, spielen, üben, erkunden, basteln, malen...

Fast dreimal komponiert: das d-moll Klaviertrio Bislang gab es für die Musikwelt das berühmte und Massstäbe setzende d-moll-Klaviertrio (op. 49) - doch welche Stadien dieses Meisterwerk bis zur Druckl...