Major Articles and Published Conference Papers

Articles in Journals

Many of these articles are available through JStor

Art Quarterly

Hass Clavichord

Early Music

Capriol's Revenge (with James Blades) (1972, 84-92)

Early Percussion Techniques (1974, 20-4)

The Authentic Sound of Early Music (1975, 242-3)

Beverley Minster Reconsidered (1978, 401-14)

The Restored Chapter House Wall Paintings in Westminster Abbey (1988,239-49)

The Crozier of William of Wykeham (2002, 540-62)

The Macclesfield Psalter (2006, 189-204)

Musical Instruments in Hans Memling's Paintings (2007, 505-523)

Sale Rooms, a regular series from 1984-2005.

Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

On one of Tutankhamon's Trumpets (64, 1978, 133-4) [Also in GSJ 29, 1976, 115-7]

Ethnomusicology

A Proposed New Classification System for Musical Instruments (with John Burton) (15:1, 1971)

Galpin Society Journal

On the Reconstruction of Medieval Instruments of Percussion (23, 1970, 104-14)

A Query on the Habits of Instrument Makers (27, 1974, 135-7)

The Construction of the Midwinterhoorn (28, 1975, 71-80)

An Oboe by Hendrick Richters (43, 1990, 124-34)

Was the Tabor Pipe always as we know it? (50, 1997, 16-30)

How old is Music? (57, 2004, 171-82)

The Creation of New Instruments (59, 2006, 3-11)

Medieval Woodwind Instruments of Silver (60, 2007, 224-8)

Historic Brass Society Journal

Organology again: this time Ethno-organology (15, 2003, 1-5)

Man

What is a Gong? (1965:5, 18-21)

Pelog

The Oxford Gamelan (1985)

Cornett and Sackbut

Early Mouthpieces (1, 1979, 4-7)

The Strad

A Tubular Bow by William Retford (March, 1984)

Vierundzwanzigsteljahrschrift der Internationalen Maultrommelvirtuosengenossenschaft

Trumps in the Bate Collection (5, 1996, 106-10)

Collection of Jeremy Montagu, Oxford: Trumps or Jews Harps - 121.2 (5, 1996, 111-25)

Voprosy Instrumentovedenia

The Conch. Its Use and its Substitutes from Prehistory to the Present Day (3, 1997, 19-23)

World Archaeology

The conch in prehistory: pottery, stone, and natural. (1981, 273-9, pl 11-18)

Yearbook for Traditional Music

The ForkedShawm - an Ingenious Invention (29, 1997, 74-9)

Conference Papers

Many unpublished conference papers are available here as Downloads

Mouthpiece Development of the bronze lur and its musical consequences, The Bronze Lurs, 211-15.

The Availability of Musical Instruments in Museums, Per una carta europea del restauro, (Ed. Elena Barassi & Marinella Laini), Olschki, 1987, 369-80.

Influència musulmana a la Peninsula Ibèrica: Exemple de les il·lustracions de les Cantigas de Santa Maria, La Música Àrab a la Mediterrània (Ed. Josefina Roma), Barcelona: Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània, 2005, 99-106

Sections of Part Works

How Music Works (ed Keith Spence & Giles Swayne), Macmillan, 1981: Revival of Old Music.

The Arts of Britain (ed Edwin Mullins), Phaidon, 1983: Musical Instruments.

Companion to Baroque Music (ed Julie Ann Sadie), Dent 1990, OUP 1998: Musical Instruments.

publication for IJV, as yet untitled Why I joined Independent Jewish Voices.

Entries in Encyclopædias, etc

Dizionario Enciclopedico Universale della Musica e dei Musicisti (1984) - 4 entries.

Everyman's Encyclopaedia (Dent, c.1976) - 64 entries.

The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (1984) - 20 entries, and many more in the 2014 revised edition.

The Newer Grove Dictionary (2004) - 5 entries.

Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Arts, ed. John Julius Norwich, (1990) - all the musical instrument entries.

Oxford Companion to Music, ed Alison Latham, (2002) - all the musical instrument entries.

Musical Instruments, Microsoft CD-ROM, consultant editor.