Musical instruments

Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Violin by Anne Rice
Accordion Crimes Annie Proulx
Davita's harp Chaim Potok
Player Piano Kurt VOnnegut

The Piano Man's Daughter, by Timothy Findley
The Countess of Stanlein Restored: A History of the Countess of Stanlein Ex Paganini Stradivarius Cello of 1707, by Nicholas Delbanco
Under a Glass Bell and other stories, by Anais Nin
Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership, by Garry Wills
Il violino di faenza, by Champfleury

Harp of Burma by Michio Takeyama
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
The Glass Harmonica by Louise Marley

and for the rest of us,

Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear

The Harp and the Oak by Hugh Massingham
The Sound of Trumpets by John Mortimer
Trumpets from Montparnasse by Robert Giddings
Play the Piano drunk like a percussion instrument by Charles Bukowski
The Trumpet Major by Thomas Hardy

The grass harp Truman Capote
The tin Drum Gunter Grass
Drums along the Mohawk Walter D. Edmonds
Tubby the Tuba
A distant trumpet Paul Horgan

The Case of the Orphaned Bassoonists by Barbara Wilson
Steel Guitar by Linda Barnes
The Vanishing Violinist by Sara Hoskinson Frommer
Music Box Murders by Larry Karp
The Sound of the Trumpet by Bill Moody

The Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thaddeus Carhart
The Philharmonic Gets Dressed by Karla Kuskin
And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts
The Trumpet of the swan by E.B. White

The Saxophone Winter by Robert Harlow
Banjo by Claude McKay
The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
No Castanets at the Wells by Lorna Hill
Trombone by Craig Nova

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz
The Art of Bill Viola by Bill Viola
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
The Ivory and the Horn by Charles de Lint

Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Drums Along the Mohawk by James Fenimore Cooper
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
Banjo Paterson's Old Bush Songs of Australia by Banjo Paterson
Iceland's Bell by Halldor Laxness
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

Lute and other Stories by Nadine Gordimer
Man and his Cymbals by Carl Gustav Jung
On Violins by Hannah Arendt
Snow Falling on Sitars by David Guterson
Lyre's Poker by Michael Lewis

The Little Drummer Boy by John Le Carre
A Different Drummer by William M. Kelley
Music of a Distant Drum by Bernard Lewis
The Harp that Once by Finnbar Dunphy
The Violin by Sandra J. McNeal

Country and Blues Harmonica for the Musically Hopeless
Davita's Harp
Bugles and a Tiger
Papa Piccolo
The Call of Fife and Drum

>12 jmcgarve: Like it! Should have a new thread of its own, maybe. ~Tish!! Plunk!! Twang!!~~

Dancing to the Flute by Manisha Jolie Amin
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse by Paul Carter
Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris
Works by 'Banjo' Paterson by A. B. Paterson
The Harp in the South by Ruth Park

Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews

Trombone by Craig Nova

When Trumpets Fade 1998 Film by John Irvin

Violoncello Method by G. Schirmer, Inc.

The Uncertain Trumpet by Maxwell Taylor

Cornet Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke
Kingdom of Fife by Irvine Welsh
The soft voice of the serpent by Nadime Gordimer
Gamba: simple seafood cooking by Derek Marshall
Life on the Golden Horn by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

>12 jmcgarve: You missed
Viol bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Lute by Joe Orton
The Bhagavad guitar (trad. arr. G. Harrison)

...and that’s before we even get started with the bassoon/faggot jokes

The Kingdom of Fife: an Illustrated Architectural Guide by Glen Pride

Mr. Clarinet by Nick Stone

Triangles by Ellen Hopkins

Simplified Rhythm Sticks: Fun with Rhythm Sticks by Laura Johnson

The Voice of Bugle Ann by Mackinlay Kantor