The Manual of Musical Instrument Conservation

Contents

• Introduction
• Entries A-Z: Acoustics
• Benzotriazole
• Bleach
• Boxwood
• Brass, bronze, and nickel silver alloys
• Brass and nickel silver cleaning
• Brass instrument conservation
• Bronze disease
• Calendar
• Cents conversion
• Chemical analysis
• Cleaning: soaps and detergents
• Clavichord maintenance
• Compo or pastiglia
• Conservation reports
• Dendrochronology
• Dictionary of common and obsolete chemical terms
• Disinfestation
• Drill bits
• Ebony and ebonizing
• Electroplating and electro-cleaning
• Epoxy removal
• Ethics
• Flutes
• Fortepiano maintenance
• French polishing
• Frets, tied and fixed
• Gilding
• Glues, pastes, and other adhesives
• Grain painting and marbling
• Grit size comparison chart
• Guitar stringing
• Gut strings
• Handling, storage, and transporting musical instruments
• Harp maintenance and stringing
• Harpsichord maintenance
• Helmholtz resonator
• Historical metrology
• Humidity control
• Hurdy gurdy stringing
• Illumination level
• Inscriptions, faded
• Intervals
• Iron and steel
• Ivory
• Japanning
• Keyboard instrument conservation
• Labels
• Lacquer
• Lakes
• Lead and lead alloys
• Leather
• Lute stringing
• Measurement
• Measurement system conversion
• Mersenne's Law
• Metallurgy
• Metalworking
• Mold making
• Mother-of-pearl and abalone
• Nickel silver cleaning
• Oddy test
• Organ restoration
• Overspun strings
• Paper, pencil, and ink
• Parchment, vellum, and slunk
• Patination
• Pegs
• Piano action regulation (modern grand)
• Pitch
• Proportion
• Recording
• Relative humidity
• Retouching
• Rosin
• Safety equipment
• Scaling
• Sealing wax
• Sharpening tools
• Silver cleaning
• Soldering
• Solvents and solvent cleaning
• Specific gravity
• Staining wood
• Stain removal
• Stradivari's varnish
• Stringed keyboard restoration
• Tap drill sizes
• Tapers
• Temperature
• Tempering steel
• Textile cleaning
• Tinning
• Tortoiseshell, horn, and whalebone
• Tuning and temperament
• Vapor-phase inhibitor paper
• Varnish
• Viola da Gamba strings
• Violin adjustment
• Violin, baroque fittings and strings
• Violin sizes
• Violin and viola strings, modern
• Vulcanite and ebonite
• Wax cleaning emulsion
• Wire gauge systems for early keyboard instruments
• Wheat paste
• Wood
• Woodwind instrument conservation
• Woodworking.