
The Galpin Society website contains details of many scholarly articles and books about the history of musical instruments. To research musical instrument collections, consult MIMO ( Musical Instrument Museums Online). Information and statistics about the modern musical instrument industry can be found at the National Association of Music Merchants and Music Trades websites. For further information, visit the Music Trades website. Names, addresses, and product information for current musical instrument manufacturers can be found in The Purchaser's Guide to the Music Industries (Englewood, NJ: The Music Trades Corp.). Serial numbers for many piano manufacturers can be found in the Bluebook of Pianos. Serial numbers for many brass and woodwind instrument manufacturers can be found at the Music Trader website. William Waterhouse, The New Langwill Index: A Dictionary of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers and Inventors (London: Tony Bingham, 1993). The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
(Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)
The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition, Laurence Libin, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie (London and New York: Macmillan, 2001). The NMM staff recommends the following sources as dependable resources for research about musical instruments.