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Antique Woodwind Instruments: An Identification And Price Guide
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Features
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing August 30, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764322249
ISBN-13: 978-0764322242
Product Dimensions:
10.9 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Book Description
This far-reaching and absorbing book is designed to help identify and value woodwind instruments made in Europe and the United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing upon the author's many years of research in the field, the book includes a brief history of European woodwind instruments made during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; biographies of important makers; a glossary of terms that will be a welcome help for the novice; a list of key systems; resources for obtaining further information from books, museums, societies, and online; and most importantly, information and nearly 300 images taken from over 20 trade catalogs printed between 1880 and 1930 in Europe and the United States. Featured among these is a complete translation of William Heckel's rare, circa 1930 catalog. This comprehensive volume is an outstanding resource for beginning and advanced collectors of musical instruments as well as for museum curators.
Reader Reviews
I have 25 years' experience in buying and selling antique woodwinds, so this book was of very great interest. It claims to be a buyers'/collectors' guide to antique woodwinds. It fails miserably. It takes illustrations from Young's 4900 Woodwind Instruments without attribution. It gives lists of original prices for 19th century woodwinds without any indication of current values; some of the listings are not even in English! Pictures are poorly reproduced and often wrongly described; for example, Boehm and Albert and Oehler clarinets are misidentified. Commonly encountered makers (Loree, Triebert, Gautrot) are absent. Also, the "rare" 1930 catalogue from Wilhelm Heckel (NOT "William Heckel"), to which the book's descriptor refers, is not rare; I have seen three copies in the last year and it is in several library collections. This, the Heckel centenary catalogue, was ORIGINALLY printed in three languages side by side, German, English and French, so the descriptor's claim of having newly translated the text is false. As if this were not enough, auction house prices are given as the sellers' estimates, not as actual sales prices, and thus do not give the actual values. The author has failed to do his homework, his research is sloppy and often misleading, and the printing is of poor quality. This book fails to provide any useful information. Shame on Schiffer Publishing for publishing this book, it is worse than useless. A potential buyer or seller will find no value in this book. ON FURTHER REFLECTION, several days later, what I wrote above is entirely true and perhaps too diplomatic.
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Antique Woodwind Instruments: An Identification And Price Guide
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