Download or read book Antique Woodwind Instruments written by Peter H. Adams and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps identify and value woodwind instruments made in Europe and the United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Includes a brief history of European woodwind instruments; biographies of important makers; glossary; list of key systems; and information and images taken from over 25 trade catalogs printed between 1880 and 1930 in Europe and the United States. An outstanding resource for musical instrument collectors and museum curators.