Laurence Libin is editor-in-chief of the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, past president of the Organ Historical Society, and honorary curator of Steinway & Sons. For 33 years he was curator of musical instruments at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The American Musical Instrument Society honored him with the Curt Sachs Award for lifetime achievement in 2009. Other honors include the Anthony Baines Prize of the Galpin Society, a Cultural Fellowship from the Likhachev Foundation, and Columbia University’s Armstrong Award for his nationally syndicated radio series, “Instrumental Odyssey.” Libin publishes and lectures widely and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1978.”
[A]n excellent volume worthy of its renowned dedicatee: a wide
range of topics with individual essays lucidly written and amply
illustrated. Indeed, the variety of topics and approaches to the
study of musical instruments adopted by the authors also makes the
volume an excellent introduction to the study of organology, its
usage, and meanings.
*THE GALPIN SOCIETY*
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