Anthony Baines

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Anthony Cuthbert Baines (1912–1997)

organologist who produced a wide variety of works on the history of musical instruments, and was a founding member of the Galpin Society.[2]

He attended Westminster School and then read for a degree in chemistry at Christ Church, Oxford. He subsequently won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music as a bassoon player, and went on to perform with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.[3]

Selected publications

  • Woodwind Instruments and their History (London: Faber & Faber, 1957; reprinted 1962, 1967, 1991)
  • Bagpipes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960; reprinted 1979, 1995),
  • Musical Instruments Through the Ages (Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1961; revised edition, London: Faber, 1966),
  • European and American Musical Instruments (London: B. T. Batsford, 1966; London: Chancellor, 1983)
  • Brass Instruments: Their History and Development (London: Faber, 1976; reprinted New York: Dover, 1993)
  • The Bate Collection of Historical Wind Instruments (Oxford University, Faculty of Music, 1976),
  • The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992),

Bibliography

References

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  2. Experimental Musical Instruments
    , volumes 12–13, 1996.
  3. ^ A. C. Baines (ed.): Musical Instruments Through the Ages (Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1961), cover text.