Information or research assistance regarding Aeolian harps
is frequently requested from the Smithsonian Institution. The following
information has been prepared to assist those interested in this topic.
Dearstyne, Howard. Material Compiled on the Subject of the Aeolian
Harp from Various Sources. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg,
Inc., 1954.
Marcuse, Sibyl. Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive
Dictionary. 1964. Reprint. New York: Norton, 1975.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Leslie Lindsey Mason Collection,
and Nicholas Bessaraboff. Ancient European Musical Instruments: An
Organological Study of the Musical Instruments in the Leslie Lindsey
Mason Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Published
for the Museum of Fine Arts by the Harvard University Press, 1941.
Randel, Don Michael, ed. The New Harvard Dictionary
of Music. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1986.
Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Musical
Instruments. London: MacMillan Press, Ltd., 1984.