Item Detail
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Farrell, Susan Caust
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Directory of contemporary American musical instrument makers
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Book
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Columbia, S.C.
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1981
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University of Missouri Press
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xii, 216 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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0826203221; 9780826203229
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Musical instrument makers--United States--Directories.
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Music Instruments; Instrument Construction; Musical Instrument Makers; United States
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ML 17 .F37
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Farrell, Susan Caust. Directory of Contemporary American Musical Instrument Makers. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1981.
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Lists all known instrument makers in the United States in 1980.
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Includes 2,500 instrument makers with one or more paid employees. Information was gathered by mailing questionnaires to organizations and instrument makers. Includes full-time and part-time instrument makers.
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Directory lists makers alphabetically by name. Entries include address, year of establishment, full-time/part time, type of instruments made, number of employees, number of instruments made, and alternate names. Also includes lists of instrument makers by instrument, and another by state. Appendices list schools of instrument making, professional societies, and books about instrument making.
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Unique source of hard-to-find information. Multiple listings ease navigability.
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Morgan, Paula. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 39 (March 1983): 606.
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BYU Mus Ref
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3164