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Check back from time to to time to see what new works I've added.
In 2009, Scarecrow Press published my latest book,
An Annotated Index of Selected Articles from The Musical Courier 1880-1940 .
This two volume reference book will greatly reduce time locating articles.
No other index exists for The Musical Courier for the time covered in my index.
This massive cross-referenced index is the result of my 20 years of research. The index is over 1600 pages of text. The purpose of this index is to assist researchers search through the wealth of articles that appeared within this weekly trade publication for the U.S. music industry. In its day, The Musical Courier was arguably the most significant music trade publication for both the musical instrument industry and the performing arts fields within the U.S. However, given that I was working on my own, I could not index every article. Therefore, I concentrated on what I knew best: the musical instrument industry. The U.S. keyboard industry is especially well represented in this index. Band and orchestral instruments are not as well represented in MC. I concluded my index with 1940 even though MC continued publication until around 1962. By 1940, few articles appeared in MC that discussed the musical instrument industry. The index also includes references to inventors and their inventions, obituaries about manufacturers, companies opening, closing, or merging, and musical instrument collections. Significant articles about musicology, ethnomusicology, and related topics are also to be found here.
Researchers looking for articles about performers will find this index of some use, especially if the performer played an uncommon musical instrument. I did not actively index articles about vocalists. I actively indexed articles about John Philip Sousa, obituaries about composers, women in the industry, African Americans, and articles discussing the worsening situation in Nazi Europe.
I now offer a scanned version on CD of August Pollmann's Catalogue K. 1894-'95. NY, NY: August Pollmann; 1894, 368 p. More detailed information about this catalog can be found elsewhere on this website. This catalog covers almost all European musical instruments, except for piano and organs. It is a wholesale catalog of great importance. Most of the instruments were imported from unidentified European manufacturers. To order a copy, look for my email address in my resume. The price of the CD is $25. Send me an email and I will give you further information. I have to do this to avoid receiving spam. I ship only to the U.S. and Canada.
I also offer a new edition of the Braye Brown manuscript for solo lyra viol. This is the latest in my on-going effort to assemble an exhaustive, if not complete set of all works for solo lyra viol. My goal is to offer a CD of the music in PDF format of all solo lyra viol music so that performers and researchers will have a single source for this rare material. I encourage people to contact me, especially if they have suggestions of other manuscripts to edit. I currently have access to a sizeable collection that will no doubt keep me busy for years. Yet, I'm open to new projects. Order copies either through me or Boulder Early Music. My email can be found on my resume. The price for this publication is $38, which includes shipping to the U.S.
Do not contact me for information about prices of antique musical instruments. This task is best left to appraisers who are able to see the instrument. Photographs, though of some value in identifying musical instruments, cannot be used to value antique musical instruments, except in a very general way. Appraisers can be found by consulting the American Musical Instrument's journal or newsletter. This society's website is AMIS.org.