Dennis Waring

Dennis Waring is a historian and ethnomusicologist who was the Connecticut State Troubadour from 2003 through 2004.[1] He has authored a book on the history of the Estey Organ Company titled Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs & Consumer Culture in Victorian America which was his doctoral dissertation at Weslyan University.[2][3][4] He is a local expert on the organs and the role of musical instruments as "primary cultural indicators".[5][6]

Dennis Waring giving a presentation about Estey Organs at Norwich University, 2019

Waring believes in bringing music to a wide audience. He makes improvised instruments out of cardboard and household scraps and teaches other people to do the same.[7][1][8]

Publications
  • 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
  1. "Dennis Waring". National Association of Music Merchants, Oral History Program. October 15, 2011. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  2. "Video by Waring Ph.D '82 Teaches Craft of Making Instruments - Page 4542710367001". News @ Wesleyan. 2010-12-16. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  3. "Museum Talk: Expert on Estey Organ Company". Main. 2019-03-04. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  4. "Ethnomusicologist to speak at Estey Organ Museum". The Brattleboro Reformer. 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  5. "The Vermont Town That Has Way Too Many Organs". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  6. Alcorn-Oppedahl, Allison A. (Allison Ann) (2003). "Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs & Consumer Culture in Victorian America (review)". Notes. Project Muse. 59 (4): 886–888. doi:10.1353/not.2003.0047. ISSN 1534-150X. S2CID 191464060.
  7. "Middletown Commission on the Arts accepting grants applications". The Middletown Press. 2018-09-08. Retrieved 2019-03-23.


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