Instruments category: 8353 books
by Jack Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
What is special about the double bass compared to all other string instruments? What is the difference between a xylophone and a glockenspiel? How long is the tubing that makes up a trumpet? And what is the name of the world’s oldest surviving violin? All of these questions and more are answered in...
by Richard Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1987
(Reference). This book gives a complete and illustrated history of the development of Rickenbacker instruments from 1931 to the present. Rickenbacker is the only book of its kind to chronicle the history of the company who in 1931 introduced electric instruments to the world. The book provides information...
by Graham McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A workshop guide to building Irish bouzoukis and citterns. In the past forty years bouzoukis, citterns and octave mandolins have become an essential part of acoustic music. The Bouzouki Book is the first, and only, book to guides the reader through the steps to build one of these fascinating stringed...
Revival: Old English Instruments of Music (1910)
Their History and Character
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The study of musical instruments now no longer with us is necessary, not only for the musician and composer, but for the man of letters, the artist, and the chronicler of our national life; for many allusions to customs of bygone times cannot otherwise be understood, and we should be spared such a...
Obsessed With Cigar Box Guitars, 2nd Edition
Over 120 Hand-Built Guitars from the Masters
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
A Passion for Handmade Musical Greatness In a modern revival of a great American tradition, sliders, pickers, strummers and makers are coming together in what they call the Cigar Box Guitar Revolution. Musicians and hobbyists are finding new creative freedom by making their own musical instruments...
Percussion Lessons for Kids
How to Play Percussion for Kids (Free Audio Available)
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Teach how to play percussion for kids with our easy percussion lessons for kids.
***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.***
"A really good start for teaching aspiring young drummers the basics of...
At the Piano
Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
In At the Piano: Interviews with 21st-Century Pianists, Caroline Benser explores the kaleidoscopic world of twenty-first-century pianism through a series of extended interviews with eight major pianists: Leif Ove Andsnes, Jonathan Biss, Simone Dinnerstein, Marc-André Hamelin, Stephen Hough, Steven...
Modern School for Mallet-Keyboard Instruments (Music Instruction)
Includes Classic Morris Goldenberg Etudes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1981
(Percussion). Modern School for Mallet-Keyboard Instruments contains materials for the development of technique, performance skill, reading ability and musicianship on marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, bells, and chimes. Compiled by experienced teachers and performers Jim Sewrey, Ben Hans and Tom Schneller,...
Under the Sign of the Big Fiddle
The R.S. Williams Family, Manufacturers and Collectors of Musical Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1996
Musical-instrument manufacturing was one of the few areas in which Canada was able to compete with the United States and England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This book describes one of the leading firms in the music industry in Canada at that time. The Toronto business that was conducted...
by Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd.
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The guitar is perhaps the most popular of all musical instruments. It has many variations from the traditional Spanish and Hawaiian guitars to the acoustic and electric instruments with their powerful sounds. While much of the joy of guitar playing comes
by Mark Langley
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
A clarinet is a woodwind instrument with a beautiful, round sound. Clarinets have the one of the largest ranges of pitch of all musical instruments, which makes it one of the most interesting and challenging instruments to play. Most schools have bands that allow willing students to learn how to...
by Michael Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Twenty Christmas Sheet Music Solos For Tuba.
This book contains twenty favourite Christmas carol sheet music arrangements for solo Tuba.
Skill Level: Grade1 to Grade 3.
Contents:
I Saw Three Ships
Angels From The Realms Of Glory
Angels We Have Heard On High
Away In A Manger
Come,...
by Michael Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Twenty Christmas Sheet Music Solos For French Horn.
This book contains twenty favourite Christmas carol sheet music arrangements for solo French Horn.
Skill Level: Grade1 to Grade 3.
Contents:
I Saw Three Ships
Angels From The Realms Of Glory
Angels We Have Heard On High
Away In...
How to Make Drums, Tomtoms and Rattles
Primitive Percussion Instruments for Modern Use
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Making your own primitive instruments from simple materials such as coffee cans and flower pots. Includes 121 figures.