Learning Guitar:

• Fingerstyle Guitar Essentials (Acoustic Guitar Magazine's Private Lessons)

Hardcover / Published 1998
• Guitar Handbook
• How to Play Guitar
• Total Guitar
• Basic Guitar (The Guitar Player Basic Library) by Helen Casabona, Player Magazine Guitar
• Basic Guitar
• *Encyclopedia of Picture Chords for All Guitarists by Leonard Vogler
• *Mel Bay's Complete Book of Guitar Chords, Scales and Arpeggios by William Bay
• *Mel Bay's Deluxe Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords by William Bay
• Advancing Guitarist : Applying Guitar Concepts and Techniques by Mick Goodrick, Pat Metheny (Contributor)
• Scales over Chords : How to Improvise and Never Play Bad Notes by Wilbur M. Savidge, Randy L. Vradenburg
• Fretboard Logic - The Reasoning Behind the Guitar's Unique Tuning System by William Edwards

This has a REALLY HIGH Amazon Rating!
• Fretboard Logic - The Companion Video To The Book  ----VIDEO by Bill Edwards (Illustrator), Steve Hodson (Photographer)
• Fretboard Logic SE; Volumes I & II Combined
  by Bill Edwards
• Fretboard Logic III Applications: Creative and Analytical by Bill Edwards

• Ray Brown's Bass Method : Essential Scales, Patterns and Exercises by Hal Leonard(Editor); Paperback - 136 pages (February 2000); Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
• Bass Guitar : With Cd by Gary Turner
• Bass Basics, Steps One and Two Combined (The Ultimate BeginnerSeries) by Dale Titus, Albert Nigro - Mass Market Paperback Book & Cd edition (July 15, 1996); Warner Bros Publication

Dulcimer:
(note we like unusual stringed musical instruments like Dulcimer, bowed psaltery, and etc.)

• Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions (American Folk Music and Folk Musicians, No. 2)

by Ralph Lee Smith; Scarecrow Pr
• Barley Break : An Elizabethan Songbook With Arrangements for the Appalachian Dulcimer

by Lorraine Lee; book and cassette set; Yellow Moon Pr
• The Magic Dulcimer by Lorraine Lee

book and cassette set; Paperback - 130 pages (June 1, 1983); Yellow Moon Pr
• Patterns and Patchwork : Mountain Dulcimer Fingerpicking Made Easy

by Sue Carpenter; Susan Carpenter
• You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer

by Madeline MacNeil; Mel Bay Publications
• The Dulcimer Book by Jean Ritchie

Paperback - 45 pages (January 1963); Music Sales Corp
• Dulcimer Chord Encyclopedia by James Major

Paperback (November 1993) Mel Bay Publications
• Do-It-Yourself Dulcimer Building Start To Finish by Neal A. Koch

Paperback - 167 pages 1 edition (March 17, 1999); Little Leaf Press

Learning Guitar Videos:

• Play Guitar Overnight! - Basics (1990)  ----VIDEO
• Watch & Play Guitar ----VIDEO
• Guitar Basics 1 (1994)  ----VIDEO  ** good rating! **
• Fretboard Logic - The Companion Video To The Book  ----VIDEO by Bill Edwards (Illustrator), Steve Hodson (Photographer)

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Clarinet:

• The Big Easy: Clarinet Paperback - 32 pages (January 2000)

• The Big Easy: Flute Paperback - 32 pages (January 2000)
• A Method for the Flute  - Jean-Louis Tulou, et al (Paperback - June 1995); Paperback Spiral edition (June 1995); Indiana Univ Press
• Flute Technique - Gareth Morris; Paperback Revised edition (March 1992); Oxford Univ Press
• How to Play the Flute - Howard Harrison; Paperback - 103 pages 1st U.S. e edition (December 1983) St. Martin's Press
• Warner Bros. Beginning Flute, Volume 1 - this videotape covers everything from opening your case to playing your first song including assembly, care and maintenance, breath control, and more!
• Warner Bros. Beginning Clarinet, Volume 1 with Malena Calle - this video takes you from opening your case to your first song and covers assembly, care of the instrument, embouchure and basic theory. A must for beginning players.

• *** Harmonica Americana: Learn to Play America's 30 Greatest Songs  by Jon Gindick

This is a cute set which includes a cassette tape and a beginner's harmonica.

• Saxophone Method Book 1: With CD by Andrew Scott; Paperback (April 1997)
• Saxophone Method Book 2; With CD (For Alto Sax) by Andrew Scott

PIANO AND ORGAN

Learn to play the Piano:

• Piano Basics I (Paperback - March 2000)
• Piano Basics II (Paperback - March 2000)
• Piano Basics III (Paperback - March 2000)
• Piano Basics IV (Paperback - March 2000)
• How to Play Popular Piano in 10 Easy Lessons by Norman Monath, David Hal (Designer); Paperback - 141 pages (November 1984); Simon & Schuster (Paper)
• How to Play the Piano Despite Years of Lessons : What Music Is and How to Make It at Home by Ward Cannel, Fred Marx Paperback - 240 pages (January 1991); Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
• Alfred's Adult All-In-One Course : Lesson-Theory-Technic by Willard A. Palmer, Morton Manus, Amanda Vick Lethco; Spiral-bound (July 1994) Alfred Pub Co
• With Your Own Two Hands : Self-Discovery Through Music by Seymour Bernstein; Paperback - 320 pages (April 1996); Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
• The 20-Minute Piano Workout -  Douglas Riva (practice excercises)
• The 20-Minute Intermediate Piano Workout - Douglas Riva (practice excercises)
• Virtuoso Pianist Complete 60 by C. Hanon; Paperback (May 1993) Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
• Pentatonic Scales for the Jazz Rock Keyboardist - Jeff Burns

Theory and Piano Technique:

• Jazz Piano Concepts & Techniques : Concepts & Techniques - John Valerio
• Improvising Jazz - Jerry Coker
• Jazz Piano Concepts & Techniques : Concepts & Techniques by John Valerio; Paperback (September 1998); Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
• Modern Jazz Piano: A Study in Harmony by Brian Waite; Paperback - 96 pages (January 1997); Omnibus
• Piano Technique Consisting of the Two Complete Books

the Shortest Way to Pianistic Perfection and Rhythmics, Dynamics, Pedal
and Other Problems of Pi by Walter Gieseking, Karl Leimer (Contributor); Paperback - 140 pages (June 1972) Dover Pubn
• On Piano Playing : Motion Sound and Expression

by Gy-Orgy S-Andor, Gyorgy Sandor; Hardcover - 240 pages (September 1981) Schirmer Books
• Fundamentals of Musical Composition by Arnold Schoenberg (Editor), Leonard Stein (Editor), Gerald Strang (Editor) Paperback (September 1983) Faber & Faber
• The Shaping Forces in Music: An Inquiry into the Nature of Harmony, Melody, Counterpoint, Form by Ernst Toch - Paperback - 260 pages (June 1977) Dover Pubns
• Music Theory (Harpercollins College Outline) by George Thaddeus Jones

Paperback Reprint edition (September 1994) Harperperennial Library
• Theory of Harmony by Arnold Schonberg, Arnold Schoenberg, Roy E. Carter (Translator)

Paperback Reprint edition (March 1983) Univ California Press
• Structural Functions of Harmony by Arnold Sch-Onberg, Arnold Schoenberg

Paperback Revised edition (June 1969) W.W. Norton & Company
• The Great Composer As Teacher and Student: Theory and Practice of Composition by Alfred Mann

Paperback - 167 pages (December 1994) Dover Pubns
• The Art of Piano Playing by Heinrich Neuhaus, K.A. Leibovitch (Translator); Availability: This title is out of print.
• My Thoughts on Piano Technique by Haruko Kataoka; Paperback (July 2001) Warner Brothers Publications
• The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling by Joseph Banowetz, Bernard McGinn; Paperback Reprint edition (July 1992) Indiana Univ Pr
• Great Pianists on Piano Playing : Godowsky, Hofman, Lhevinne, Paderewski and 24 Other Legendary Performers by James F. Cooke (Editor); Paperback - 448 pages (December 1999); Dover Pubns
• Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves / Two Volumes in One by Elyse MacH; Paperback - 480 pages Rep edition (May 1991); Dover Pubns
• The Great Pianists by Harold C. Schonberg; Paperback - 525 pages Rev/Updtd edition (June 1987)

Fireside
• Piano Playing With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann; Paperback - 272 pages (September 1976); Dover Pubns
• Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing by Josef Lh-Evinne, Josef Lhevinne, Rosina Lhevinne (Designer); Paperback - 50 pages (June 1972); Dover Pubns


TEACHING PIANO:

• Studying Suzuki Piano : More Than Music : A Handbook for Teachers, Parents, and Students

by Carole L. Bigler, Valery Lloyd-Watts; Paperback (December 1979); Warner Brothers Publications
• Piano Teachers Art : Guidelines for Successful Teaching  - Isabelle Yalkovsky Byman (Paperback - August 1981); Paperback (August 1981); Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
• Abby Whiteside on Piano Playing : Indispensables of Piano Playing - Mastering the Chopin Estudes and Other Essays by Abby Whiteside Paperback - 368 pages (May 1997) Amadeus Pr
• Mastering Piano Technique : A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Performers by Seymour Fink, Donald G. Bell (Illustrator) Hardcover - 192 pages (June 1992) Amadeus Pr

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