Origins and development of musical instruments /

1. Origins ; Musical Sound ; Voices ; Lithophones ; Percussion Bars ; Bells and Gongs ; Rattles Interlude A: Instruments of Protection ; 2. Drums ; Trouble with tension ; Drums ; Tubular drums ; Interlude B: Musicians ; 3. Flutes and recorders ; Monotone ; Whistling in the Wind ; Vessel Flutes ; Penny whistles and Recorders ; Transverse Flutes ; Harmonic Flutes ; Interlude C - The Medieval Renaissance and the First Industrial Revolution ; 4. Reeds ; Straws in the Wind ; Oboes and Bassoons ; Clarinets and other Single Reeds ; Free reeds ; Interlude D: The ideal accompaniment ; 5. 'Brass' Instruments - Trumpets and Horns ; Interlude E - The Second Industrial Revolution ; 6. String instruments ; From Bows to Lyres, Harps, and Lutes ; Lyres ; Harps ; Zithers ; Stringed Keyboards ; Interlude H - Newly Created, Recognized, or Discovered Instruments ; Plucked Lutes ; Bowed Lutes aka Fiddles ; Interlude F: Messengers ; 7. The Pipe Organs ; Interlude G: Symbiosis ; 8. Electrophones ; Interlude H: Newly created, recognized, or discovered instruments ; Archaeology and other -ologies ; Classification of Instruments ; Scales and Music ; The Sounds of Science ; Bibliography ; Instrument Index ; Geographical Index ; General Index ; About the Author.