Stephen Cottrell is Professor of Music at City, University of London. His previous books include Professional Music-Making in London,The Saxophone,Defining the Discographic Self: Desert Island Discs in Context (co-edited with Julie Brown and Nicholas Cook), and Music, Dance, Anthropology.

• Introduction: The Cultural Study of Musical Instruments – An OverviewStephen CottrellInstrumental Interlude #1: The Skoog–Ben Schögler and David SkulinaPart I: Ecology, Production and Communities of Practice1. The Social Production of a Mallorcan Bagpipe: Collaboration, Technology, Ecology and InternationalisationCassandre Balosso-Bardin2. Feeling Analogue: Using Modular Synthesisers, Designing Synthesis CommunitiesEliot Bates3. Re-inventing the Herati Dutâr: Some Cultural and Social RepercussionsJohn Baily4. Musical Instruments as Material Culture: A Case Study of the Cretan LyraKevin DaweInstrumental Interlude #2: The Yaybahar–Görkem ŞenInstrumental Interlude #3: Eli Gras Part II: The Circulation of Instruments5. Charlie Parker, Massey Hall and Grafton 10265: Musical Instruments and the Telling of TalesStephen Cottrell6. What’s in a Name?: Carving an Indian Identity into the Slide-GuitarAndré J.P. Elias7. Playing for God: Brass Instruments of the Moravian Brethren in the Atlantic WorldStewart CarterInstrumental Interlude #4: The Fluid Piano–Geoffrey SmithInstrumental Interlude #5: The Pikasso Guitar–Linda Manzer Part III: Reframing History Through Instruments8. Arcadian Tones: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the Austrian MaultrommelDeirdre Morgan9. Musical Instruments as Traded Commodities: The Makers’ PerspectiveJenny Nex10. Military Musical Instruments and the Culture of Perfection in the Long Nineteenth CenturyTrevor Herbert