Anthony Cuthbert Baines (1912–1997) was an

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organologist who produced a wide variety of works on the history of

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s, and was a founding member of the

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. He attended Westminster School and then read for a degree in chemistry at Christ Church,

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. He subsequently won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music as a bassoon player, and went on to perform with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.A. C. Baines (ed.): ''Musical Instruments Through the Ages'' (Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1961), cover text.

Selected publications

* ''Woodwind Instruments and their History'' (London: Faber & Faber, 1957; reprinted 1962, 1967, 1991) * ''Bagpipes'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960; reprinted 1979, 1995), * ''Musical Instruments Through the Ages'' (Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1961; revised edition, London: Faber, 1966), * ''European and American Musical Instruments'' (London: B. T. Batsford, 1966; London: Chancellor, 1983) * ''Brass Instruments: Their History and Development'' (London: Faber, 1976; reprinted New York: Dover, 1993) * ''The Bate Collection of Historical Wind Instruments'' (Oxford University, Faculty of Music, 1976), * ''The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992),

Bibliography

* Jeremy Montagu: "Anthony Baines, 1912–97", in ''Early Music'' vol. 25 (1997), May, pp. 345–346. *

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: "Anthony Cuthbert Baines, 1912–1997: A Biographical Memoir", in: ''The Galpin Society Journal'' vol. 52 (1999), April, pp. 11–26. * https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/373/115p053.pdf

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baines, Anthony 1912 births 1997 deaths 20th-century British musicologists English musicologists History of the bagpipes Organologists Fellows of the British Academy Alumni of the Royal College of Music Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Royal Tank Regiment officers British Army personnel of World War II British World War II prisoners of war People educated at Westminster School, London 20th-century British conductors (music) British bassoonists British schoolteachers Fellows of University College, Oxford