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Center for the Study of Free-Reed Instruments at the City University of New York Graduate Center

Library and Archive: III. Literature

HARMONIUM/REED ORGAN

 

1. Primary documents (copies)

Bazin, James A. "First Reed Organs in America," The Musical and Sewing Machine Gazette vol. ? (date?), 23-25.

Chase, G.W. "History of Reed Instruments in the United States," The Musical World and Times (9 April 1853), 227-28.

 

2. Books and articles

Gellerman, Robert F. The American Reed Organ (Vestal, NY: The Vestal Press, 1973).

Jewell, Howard A. "James Amireaux Bazin," Reed Organ Society Bulletin 8 (February 1989), 3-8.

Kuronen, Darcy. "James Bazin and the Development of Free Reed Instruments in America," paper read at the 25th Annual Meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society, May 18, 1996, Vermillion, SD

Moore, Wayne T. "Liszt's Piano-Harmonium," The American Organist 20/7 (1986), 64-66.

Ord-Hume, Arthur W.J.G. Harmonium: The History of the Reed Organ and its Makers (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1986).

Smith, Rollin. "Franz Liszt and the Organ," The American Organist 20/7 (1986), 67-73.

 

3. Miscellaneous

Libin, Laurence. "The 'Apollo lyra'," Reed Organ Society Newsletter (Spring, 2002).