Well-Tempered Woodwinds Quotes

“When we come to describe musical instruments we should treat them as the artworks of outstanding, intelligent craftsmen who have brought them into being by manual labor and intellectual effort. By applying precise plans to suitable materials they have skillfully fashioned instruments that publish the glory of God, or (which is perfectly legitimate) give pleasure to mankind with their sweet harmonious sounds. —Michael Praetorius, Syntagma Musicum (1619)”
― Geoffrey Burgess, Well-Tempered Woodwinds: Friedrich von Huene and the Making of Early Music in a New World