Because no other comparable book can be easily obtained today, this book survives in the market. The book is hardly a price guide as it purports itself to be. The only "price guide" in the book is a few pages with prices taken from an old London auction. It doesn't list prices for any any instrument you will normally encounter on eBay. The book has nice pictures taken from old catalogs and price lists. However, the pictures are badly captioned, if at all, and you will have a hard time figuring out the brand or manufacturer of the instruments illustrated. The book also has a lot of factual errors: it says Evette & Schaeffer is the successor of Buffet Crampon instead of the other way around; high pitch is today's standard instead of low pitch (they are assigned wrong A frequency standards); cites a manufacturer over and over as F. Delaure & Cie. when F. Delarue & Cie. is the correct name; and so on. You can buy it because you won't find another book in the same genre. However, be very careful about the text that the author Adams provides. They can mislead you badly if you don't have any background in antique woodwind instruments.Read full review
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