"C. G. Conn's Wonder Violin--the Best Violin on Earth?" America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter, XXIV, No. 4 (August 1997): 4-5.
"The Collection, Preservation, and Use of Historic Musical Instruments--the Museum Perspective," Continuo (Toronto, Canada) 8, No. 2 (December 1984): 2-8.
"The 'Harrison' Stradivari Violin, the 'Rawlins' Stradivari Guitar, and Other Items Relating to Stradivari at The Shrine to Music Museum," Journal of the Violin Society of America IX, No. 3 (1989): 13-35.
"An Introduction to the Shrine to Music Museum and its Collection of 16th-18th-century North Italian Stringed Instruments," Proceedings of the 6th Tiverton Violin Conference (West Devon College, Tiverton, England, 1992), 7-13.
"The 'King' Holds Court in Vermillion [about Andrea Amati violoncello, ca. 1572]," La Voce (Claire Givens Violins, Minneapolis) (January 1987): 4.
"The Modern Greek Lyra," Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society V/VI (1979/80): 144-165.
"[The Modern Greek] Lyra," article in the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments II (New York and London: Macmillan, 1984): 576-577.
The Modern Greek Lyra: An Organological Study of the Lyra Collection of Sam Chianis, Binghamton, New York, M.A. Thesis (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974).
"North Italian Viols at The Shrine to Music Museum," Viola da Gamba Society of America Journal XXI (1984):7-27.
"Perspectives on the Ethics, Preservation, and Use of Our Instrumental Heritage," co-authored with Charles Beare (London) and Andrew Dipper (Minneapolis), Journal of the Violin Society of America XII, No. 2 (1992): 23-44.
"A Physicist's Unfulfilled Prophecy: Alfred Stelzner's Experiment in Violin Reform," America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter XXVI, No. 2 (May 1999): 4-5.
"Pochettes in the U.S. and Canada--A Checklist," Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society XIII, No. 2 (June 1984): 8-11.
"Rare 1781 Bergonzi Viola Given in Memory of Laurence C. Witten (1926-1995)," America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter XXV, No. 1 (October 1997): 4-5 and 8.
The Rebec: an Orthographic and Iconographic Study, Ph.D. dissertation (Morgantown: West Virginia University, 1981).
"Rebec in French Literary Sources from 1379-1780," Viola da Gamba Society of America Journal XIX (1982): 71-98.
"Small is Beautiful: A Violino Piccolo from the Age of Monteverdi," La Voce (Claire Givens Violins, Minneapolis) (July 1987): 4.
"Thumbs Up to James Reynold Carlisle (1886-1962), Noted American Violin Maker," The Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter XXII, No. 3 (April 1995): 6-7.
"Violin Manufacturing by the Conn Company of Elkhart, Indiana," Journal of the Violin Society of America XI, No. 3 (1992): 20-76.
"Violino Piccolo," article in the New Grove Dictionary of Music (New York and London: forthcoming).
"The Violino Piccolo and Other Small Violins," Early Music (London, England) XVIII, No. 4 (November 1990): 588-596.
"The Witten-Rawlins Collection and Other Early Italian Stringed Instruments at The Shrine to Music Museum," Journal of the Violin Society of America VIII, No. 3 (1987): 18-48.
"Anthropomorphic Harp a Link to Zaire's Colonial Past," The Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter XXIII, No. 3 (January 1996): 5.
For further information, I can be contacted at National Music Museum, The University of South Dakota, 414 East Clark Street, Vermillion,
SD 57069-2390 or by E-mail at
mbanks@usd.edu
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