Dennis Waring is a multi-instrumentalist musician, teacher, historian and ethnomusicologist who was the Connecticut State Troubadour from 2003 through 2004.[1] He wrote a history book on the Estey Organ Company titled Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs & Consumer Culture in Victorian America, based on his 1987 doctoral dissertation at Wesleyan University,[2] where he was curator of a world instrument workshop while a graduate student.[3][4][5]
In his research, Waring explored Estey organs and the role of musical instruments as "primary cultural indicators".[6][7] In addition to playing clarinet, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, banjo and drums in several ensembles, and building traditional wooden instruments, in the 1970s Waring began to explore making dulcimers and other instruments from corrugated cardboard and other household materials. He taught others to do the same, wrote books on the subject, and began selling cardboard-instrument kits, launching a website called "Waring Music."[8][1][9][10]
Publications edit
- Folk Instruments Make Them & Play Them, It's Easy & It's Fun (1979)
- Making Wood Folk Instruments (1990)
- Great Folk Instruments To Make & Play (1999)
- Cardboard Folk Instruments to Make Play (2000)
- Make Your Own Electric Guitar Bass (2001)
- Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs & Consumer Culture in Victorian America (2002)
- Making Drums (2003)
References edit
- ^ a b "Dennis Waring". NAMM Oral History Library. October 15, 2011. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ https://www.worldcat.org/title/18493647
- ^ "Video by Waring Ph.D '82 Teaches Craft of Making Instruments - Page 4542710367001". News @ Wesleyan. 2010-12-16. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Museum Talk: Expert on Estey Organ Company". Main. 2019-03-04. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Ethnomusicologist to speak at Estey Organ Museum". The Brattleboro Reformer. 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "The Vermont Town That Has Way Too Many Organs". Atlas Obscura. 31 May 2018. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ Alcorn-Oppedahl, Allison A. (Allison Ann) (2003). "Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs & Consumer Culture in Victorian America (review)". Notes. 59 (4). Project Muse: 886–888. doi:10.1353/not.2003.0047. ISSN 1534-150X. S2CID 191464060.
- ^ "Middletown Commission on the Arts accepting grants applications". The Middletown Press. 2018-09-08. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Music Man Dennis Waring Featured at New Arts Collective". Gallery Walk Guide, July 2015. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ http://waringmusic.com
External links edit
- Waring Music - personal site
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