"Woodwind Instruments and Their History"
by Anthony Baines

Widely acclaimed for its scholarship, comprehensiveness, and originality, this superior study by a leading authority on woodwind instruments is considered the definitive work on the subject. Anthony Baines, a well-known English musicologist, conductor, instrumentalist and curator of the Bate Collection of Historical Wind Instruments at Oxford University, combines a history of woodwinds with detailed descriptions of the various instruments in use today.