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 On this page I plan to make a reading list that includes books published by the various makers in this wiki as well as books about those makers and the instruments they build. This page will also include a section on books that demonstrate instrument building theory and methods that are relevant to making musical instruments.
-=====Competitions & Events=====
+=====Books=====
-====The Instrument Builders Project====
+====Theory Books====
-Instrument Builders Project is a forum for experimental work – at the intersection of contemporary art, sound and music, and performance – engaging artists from Australia and the Asia-Pacific. Each IBP culminates in new and experimental works in the form of ‘instruments’.
-((http://theinstrumentbuildersproject.com/about/))
+====Technical Books on Building Musical Instruments====
-====Guthman Musical Instrument Invention Competition====
+===The Amateur Wind Instrument Maker===
-The [[Guthman Competition]] is held every year at Georgia Tech and frequently features instruments and makers that are on this wiki. The idea of the competition is to show off innovations in musical instrument invention.
+By Trevor Robinson, ISBN 978-0870233128\\
-====Powsolo Awards====
+==This book has diagrams for the following instruments==
-The [[Powsolo]] award started in 2020 and is an award competition for sound sculptures.
+Fife in the key of Bb. \\
+Copy of a single key baroque flute in three parks (in D, in baroque pitch and modern pitch) \\
+A walking stick flute in three parts. \\
+A renaissance style alto recorder in F, in one part\\
+Baroque style alto and soprano recorders in F and C, each in 3 parts\\
+A 2 key clarinet in C, in two parts plus mouthpiece (more like a chalumeau especially in length as it is much shorter than a clarinet) \\
+A musette in (C?) in two parts \\
+A soprano Shawm in one part plus reedcap. \\
+A baroque oboe with 3 keys, in three parts in C (in both baroque and modern pitch)\\
+Tenor alto and soprano crumhorns, all in one part plus windcaps. \\
+Cant and tenor racketts, both with straight bocals \\
+A baroque rackett with bell and curved conical bocal. \\
+Curved and mute cornettos in A along with mouthpieces\\
+Natural trumpet in the key of D along with mouthpiece (all made of brass) \\
+Details on how to make gouges, reamers, and augers \\
+Details on how to make the featured instruments reeds\\
-====Instruments Make Play Festival====
+This is the most easily available and comprehensive book on making early wind instruments. The information it details on how to make home made tools and how to bore out instruments using a lathe is indispensable for wind instrument makers. Though all of the projects in the book are straightforward historic versions of wind instruments the information on how they are made is very useful, and sets up a good foundation to understand how these instruments are made and the reasons for the techniques. This information  can actively be applied for any number of experimental wind instruments.
-[[Instruments Make Play]] Festival ((https://instrumentsmakeplay.nl/festival/)) is a festival about self invented musical instruments in the form of concerts, an exchange, workshops, exhibitions, residencies and much more. In November and December 2017 we had our first edition in three cities; Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Deventer. The festival is initiated, programmed and produced by Lukas Simonis, Julie Dassaud and Harco Rutgers.
+===Woodwinds for Schools===
+By Peter Tomlin, ISBN 978-0852190890\\
-=====Websites=====
+==This book features designs for the following woodwinds==
+A four segment, conical bore, single key flute in the key of D. \\
+A three segment, 8 keyed clarinet in the key of C. \\
+Optionally the clarinet can be built as a 2-3 keyed chalumeau. \\
+A three segment, 2 keyed oboe in C. \\
+A two keyed bassoon made from 1 cut block of wood, with bocal, that goes to low C.  \\
+A simple renaissance style recorder in C (Diagram only). \\
-====Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments====
+To build these instruments a good amount of woodworking experience is expected, diagrams are technical, and the language describing the process on how to build them is short. All the instruments except the bassoon require the use of a lathe. Hand made jigs are required, as well as some gouges to hollow out the wood. I would only recommend getting this book if you already have a copy of The Amateur Wind Instrument Maker (ISBN 0-87023-312-2) as that book is far more detailed on how to build simple woodwinds and much of the information and techniques detailed in it are useful for tackling these projects. This book is valuable because it details a clarinet in C and a simple bassoon in such a style that do not have diagrams elsewhere.
-"Since the taxonomical work of Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs in the early twentieth century, organologists have classified musical instruments into four major categories, each distinguished by its primary sound-producing mechanism: idiophones (vibrating body), membranophones (vibrating membrane), chordophones (vibrating strings) and aerophones (vibrating air columns). Beyond these basic divisions, scholars have proposed such logically consistent additions as electrophones (for electronic instruments) and corpophones (for the human body as a source of sound). We propose a seventh category: fictophones, for imaginary musical instruments. Existing as diagrams, drawings or written descriptions, these devices never produce a sound. Yet they are no less a part of musical culture for that. Indeed, fictophones represent an essential if hitherto unrecognized domain of musical thought and activity, and it is in order to catalog these conceptual artifacts that we have established the first institution of its kind: the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments." ((http://imaginaryinstruments.org/)) \\
-====Oddstruments====
-====Oddmusic====
-====Oddwinds====
-====Wollesonic====
+====Books on Various Instrument Builders====
-A music collective based in New York ((http://www.wollesonic.com/?p=WOLLESONIC_BLURB&ms=m0&l=en&))
+===From Mud to Music===
+From Mud to music is about musical instrument makers who work with ceramics as their primary medium. \\
+There are 3 main sections-\\
+The first section is a set of essays about ceramic musical instruments of all kinds (plus an essay introduction by Bart Hopkin)\\
+The second section is a set of biographies and profiles on various living ceramic sound artists.\\
+The third section is a set of demos on how to make clay instruments, the demos are simplistic and easy to make for people new to ceramics. \\
-====Thingamajigs====
+==Instrument making demos written by Barry Hall==
-"Thingamajigs is a genre-crossing arts organization that promotes music and other art forms created with made and found materials or alternate tuning systems. Our mission is to develop and nurture the exploration of alternate materials and methods of creating sound, and promote collaborative efforts between artists and local communities. With open workshops, performances and a robust education program, we welcome audiences/participants of all ages and backgrounds to join in the tradition of Bay Area visionaries such as Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, and John Cage." ((http://www.thingamajigs.org))
+Side-Hole Pot Drum (a simple Udu drum)\\
+An Ocarina (4 and 6 hole pendant ocarinas)\\
+A Goblet Drum \\
+A Side Blown Flute (6 hole transverse flute) \\
+Whistle Flute (a clay tin whistle with 4 holes) \\
-====Instruments Make Play====
-[[Instruments Make Play]] is a collection of instrument builders. The website also hosts a yearly festival in the Netherlands. ((https://instrumentsmakeplay.nl/festival/))
-=====Journals and Magazines=====
-====Experimental Musical Instruments====
-[[EMI]] is by far the most comprehensive and important resource related to this wiki. Published by [[Bart Hopkin]], the magazine features different instrument makers and their instruments, theory surrounding them, music they have made and even technical guides on how to build instruments. \\
-===Makers Featured===
-====Balungan====
-====American Musical Instrument Society====
-====Galpin Society====
-=====Books=====
-====Theory Books====
-====Technical Books on Building Musical Instruments====
-====Books on Various Instrument Builders====
-===From Mud to Music===
-From Mud to music is about musical instrument makers who work with ceramics as their primary medium.
 ==Makers Featured==
 [[Frank Giorgini]] \\
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 ====Books Written by Makers Featured on this Wiki====
-=====Institutions=====
-====Galleries====
-===Window Gallery===
-San Francisco based gallery that prominently features musical instruments as works of art and frequently features newly invented musical instruments. ((https://www.facebook.com/window.gallery.C4NM/))
-====Museums====
-===Center for New Music===
-San Francisco based gallery and performance space. ((https://www.facebook.com/c4newmusic))
-Frequently called C4NM. \\
-===Musical Instrument Museum===
-Phoenix, Arizona
-====School Programs====
-===Experimental Sound Practices===
-Calarts
-===Mills College===
-====Performance Spaces====
-===The Wolf===
-Los Angeles based performance space
-===Automata===
-===Machine Project===
-===Logos Foundation===
-The Logos Foundation is in Ghent, Belgium and is a unique professional research and production center for experimental musics, musical robotics and audio art. ((https://www.logosfoundation.org/index.html))