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History of the Trump in Pictures: Europe and America

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V.I.M. 1 (1982) - contents: 96 pages (A5)

- Editor's Notes - (F.Crane)
- The Silesian Jew's harp Artists - (R. Henning) - also in German
- Jew's (Jaw's? Jeu? Jeugd? Gewgaw? Juice?) Harp - (F. Crane)
- A Shaker Notice of the Jew's harp - (D.W. Patterson)
- The Great Jew's harp Hunt of 1954 - (B.L. Mihura)
- How Should the Jew's harp Part of "Washington's Birthday" be Played? - (F. Crane)
- Food, Drink and Jew's harps - (F. Crane)
- The Jew's harp in Colonial America - (B.L. Mihura)
- An Ode Addressed to a Young Lady's Jew's harp - ("Windsor")
- Einige Bemerkungen zur Echtheit der Bruno Glatzl-Bildnisse - (F.X. Kügerl)
- Record Review - (R. Henning)
- The Recordings of John Wright - (F. Crane)
- A Checklist of Long-Playing Records with Jew's harp Music - (F. Crane)

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V.I.M. 2 (1985) - contents: 122 pages (A5)

- Editor's Notes - (F.Crane)
- Mrs. Midnight, dr. Burney, the Jew's harp and the Salt-Box - (D. Lasocki)
- Punch and the Jew's harp - (F. Crane)
- Trumping Around Scotland - (L. Porteous)
- Jew's harps in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art - (L. Lubin)
- Obed Pickard's Jew's harp Poem - (F. Crane)
- Street of Agrigentum - (S. Quasimodo) also in Italian
- Notes on Jew's harp Advertising in the Mid Nineteenth Century - (J.W. Kimball)
- Jew's harps on Postage Stamps - (F. Crane)
- Some Strategies for Tuning and Improving a factory Jew's harp - (M. Seeger)
- The International Jew's harp Congress 1984 - (F. Crane)
- An Annotated Checklist of Microgroove Records with Jew's harp Music - (Tran Q. H.)

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V.I.M. 3 (1987) - contents: 114 pages (A5)

- Editor's Notes - (F.Crane)
- The Jew's harp among the Peoples of the Soviet Union - (R. Galayskaya)
- The Jew's harp in the Soviet Union - (Izdatel'stvo)
- "Like a Clear Stream" - (P.Dobrobaba)
- A Living Legend - (A. Kunanbaeva)
- Aspects of Yakut Folklore Traditions in N. Berestov's Concert Improvisations
for Khomus and Orchestra - (L.G. Il'ina)
- Huddle and Twang - (L. Libin)
- The Reverend Samuel Peter's Contributions to Jew's harp Lore - (F. Crane)
- The Jew's Harp - (Th. Busby)
- "I'm a Demon on my Old Jew's harp" - (F. Crane)
- Ten Tutors for the Jew's Harp: A Review - (F. Crane)

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V.I.M. 4 (1994) - contents: 153 pages (A5)

- Editor's Notes - (F.Crane)
- Obediah Pickard: Country Music's Master of the Trump - (R.W. Butts)
- The Jew's harp in My Life - (L. Greenwood)
- The New Deal (for the Jew's Harp) - (H.L. Malone)
- The Tonal Resources of the Trump - (A. Bruhin) also in German
- "Poing" - (Ph. Bakx)
- Trump Makers of Today, 1 - Friedrich Schlütter, Robbie Clement - (F. Crane/A. Bruhin)
- Dvořák and the Trump? - (F. Crane)
- "Jew's harp Bill" - (F. Crane)
- Book Reviews (on 5 Jew's harp Books) - (F. Crane)
- Supplement: A Sketch of the Life of C. Eulenstein, the Celebrated
Performer on the Jew's harps (London, 1833)

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V.I.M. 5 (1996) - contents: 161 pages (A5)

- Editor's Notes - (F. Crane)
- Anthology of German Trump Poetry - (R. Henning) also in German
- The Trump in British Literature - (F. Crane)
- E.T.: Electric Trump - (S. Flüeler) also in German
- Trumps in the Bate Collection - (J. Montagu)
- Collection of Jeremy Montagu, Oxford: Trumps or Jew's harps - 121.2 -
(J. Montagu)
- Blackbirds, Trumpets and Trumps - (J. Wright)
- Trump Makers of Today, 2: Zoltán Szylágyi - (F. Crane)
- Jew's harp Composition - (T. Johnson)
- Berlioz on Guimbardiers - (F. Crane)
- An Iconographic Rediscovery of the Trump - (Ph. Bakx)
- Linda Robbins Coleman's Concertino for Trump and Small Orchestra -
(F. Crane)
- Trumping on CD's (Some Humdingers) - (F.Crane)
- Thoughts on Notating Music for the Trump - (F.Crane)
- Musikverlag Preissler's Trump Publications - (F.Crane)

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V.I.M. 6 (1997) - contents: 157 pages (A5)

- Editor's Notes - (F. Crane)
- Trump Festivals and Congresses, Past and Future - (F. Crane)
- Problems of Trump Music - (G. Alexeyeva)
- Yakutsk : Khomus-Harpin' in Siber-Space - (L. Hanks)
- If Only One Had Wings... - (S.S. Shishigin)
- Reminiscences of Yakutsk 1991 - (F.Crane)
- Tom Bilyeu 1915-1996 - (F. Crane)
- An Interview with Tom Bilyeu - (F. Crane)
- Subing: An Iraya-Mangayan Trump from the Philippines - (J. Baes)
- The Trump in the Movies - (F. Crane)
- The Trump in an 1853 Ballet - (F. Crane)
- Book Review: Gjermund Kolltveit's
Munnharpas Tidlige Historie i Skandinavia (1996) - (F. Crane)

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V.I.M. 7 (1998) - contents: 79 pages (A4)

- Editor's Notes - (F. Crane)
- The Khomus in My Life - (S.S. Shishigin)
- The Trump in American and Canadian Literature - (F. Crane)
- An 1883 Account of Serenading the Trump in the Alps -
(P. Rosegger / F. Crane) also in German
- The Trump and the Hindu God Shiva - (Ph. Bakx)
- A Bibliography of the Trump - (F. Crane)
- The Trump in Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures : a Checklist -
(F. Crane)
- Seven More Tutors on the Trump : a Review - (F. Crane)
- The Queen who Couldn't Bake Pfeffernuesse and the King who
Couldn't Play the Trump - (R. von Volkmann-Leander) also in German
- Triumph of the Tenth Muse (an Arcadian Poem, 1764 -
text added in German) - (R. Henning / F. Crane)

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V.I.M. 8 (1999) - contents: 127 pages (A4)

subtitle: Papers from the 3rd International Jew's harp Congress
in Molln (Austria), 1998
= every article in this V.I.M. is in English, in German and in Russian =

- Editor's Notes - (F. Crane)
- Overtones Used in Various Aspects of Music - (Tran Q.H.)
- History of trump Production in Molln - (A. Mohr)
- The Manufacture and Import of Trumps in America - (F. Crane)
- The Jew's harp in Japan - (Tadagawa L.)
- The Jew's harp Culture in Taiwan - (P. Mulu)
- The Trump and Other Areas of Art - (I.J. Alexeyev)
- From Congress to Congress - (R. Madvarova)
- Norwegian Techniques of Playing the Jew's harp - (Å. Egeland)
- The Playing Techniques of Various Jew's harps - (Tran Q.H.)
- The Trump and Eroticism - (G. Haid)
- The Lyrical Poetry of the Music of the Talking Khomus - (S. Ivanov)
- Special Features of Khomus Music: Khomus Therapy, Observation,
Experience and Suggestions - (S.S. Shishigin)
- Jew's harp Therapy - (Iwasaki K.)
- The Trump in German Prose Literature : a Sketch - (R. Henning)
- Memories of Molln 1998 - (F. Crane)

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V.I.M. 9 (2000) - contents: 84 pages (A4)

- Editor's Notes - (F. Crane)
- Trolls and Trumps - ( F. Crane) also in Danish and in Norwegian
- Past and Present of the Trompa in the Gran Chaco Region -
(J.L. Pignocchi) also in Spanish
- Three Encounters of the Trump Kind - (R. Bassara)
- The Maultrommel Monument, Molln - (F. Crane)
- A Bibliography of the Trump: Supplement 2000 - (F. Crane)
- Bella MacPhee - (F. Crane / R. Bassara)
- A "New" 18th-century Itinerant Trump Virtuoso - (F. Crane) also in French
- Two New Trump Stamps (and a Retrospective) - (F. Crane)
- The Heavenly Trump - (E. Henscheid / F. Crane) also in German
- Memorize This! - (F. Crane)
- Joseph Rock on the Naxi Trump (J.F. Rock / F. Crane)
- More CD's - (F. Crane)
- The Trump in Recordings of Early Music - (F. Crane)
- The First Book on the Trump: a Facsimile Reprint (added in French, 1779) - (mr. D * * * * / F. Crane)

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V.I.M. 10 (2002) - contents: 105 pages (A4)

- Editor's Notes - (F. Crane)
- Fred Whitlow 1916 -2001 ( F. Crane)
- The Drymba among the Hutsul in the Ukrainian Carpathians: A Recent Ethnomusicological Survey (Ph. Dallais-S. Weber-C.Briner-J. Liegme)
- The Mapuche and the Trompe (J.L.Pignocchi)
- Kyrgyzstan - An Adventurous Journey (S. Westad)
- A Munnharpe for Giants (F. Crane)
- An Album of the Trump Virtuoso Franz Paula Koch (1761-1831) (intro. M. Hett)
- Travel Report: Tokyo (A. Bruhin)
- A Shishigin Portfolio (F. Crane)
- Khomus (A. E. Kulakovskiy)
- CD Reviews (F. Crane)
- Patsy Cohen's Jew's harp Band (sheet music)

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V.I.M. 11 (2003) - contents: 116 pages (A4)

- Editor's Notes - (F. Crane)
- Two Prominent Trumpists Receive Major Honors
- What is To Be Done? - (Fr. Crane)
- Photos from Argentina
- A Few More Photos
- Trump Makers of Today: Clayton G. Bailey
- Trolls and Trumps: a Supplement to the Anthology in V.I.M. 9 (2000)

- The Earliest Verbal Sources for the History of the Trump in Europe - (F. Crane)
- C---pensieri - (F. Crane)
- Some Sources for the Life and Art of Franz Paula Koch
- My Mukkuri - (dr. Abe Kazuhiro)
- A Bibliography of the Trump: Supplement 2003
- CD Reviews (F. Crane)
- Three 17th-Century Organologists View the Trump
- Trumps in American Musical Instrument Trade Catalogs

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by Frederick Crane

Foreword - The Earliest Depictions -The Peddler and the Monkeys - The d’Esch Family of Metz - Paintings ca 1480-1515 - 16th-century Prints and Drawings - Peddlers - Sculptures - Paintings and a Intarsia (mid to late 16th century) - Van de Venne - 17th-century Prints and Drawings - 17th and 18th-century Paintings - 18th-century Prints and a Drawing or two - 19th-century Paintings - America: Genre, Satire & Humor - 20th-century: Humor - A 20th-century Miscellany - Afterword - Iconography - Bibliography

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